One of the greatest advances in car design of recent years has been the fact that manufacturers have contrived to get a steadily increasing performance from their models, and at…

Former classic F2 and F3 racer John Crowson is stepping up to the Thoroughbred Grand Prix Car series this season with the ex-Geoff Lees Ensign N177. Crowson has acquired the…

"The Engines Were Rolls-Royce" by Ronald W. Harker, OBE. 202 pp. 9 1/2" x 6". (Collier Macmillan Ltd., Stockley Close, Stockley Road, West Drayton, Middlesex, UB7 9BE £7.95). It has been…

A 'works' Aston Martin International with an intriguing and distinguished competition history in two disciplines is one of several cars coming from Jersey to take part in the Footman James…

Sir, Before the correspondence on tyre life is closed I would like to do exactly what your contributor Mr. Strangeway says—let my tyres speak for themselves. "Early in 1960 we…

Two events this summer will commemorate David Leslie, who died in the Biggin Hill air crash on March 30. During the Knockhill Classic Speedfair on June 7/8, a ‘driver of…

1970 Formula Two Championship, Montjuich Park, Barcelona Everyone always assumes that when I choose my best ever race I would come up with something from sportscars or Formula One, but…

Sir, Mr. Rawnit, in his condemnation of the vintage-car movement, writes of "an alarming ignorance of the wider facts of automobile engineering" as one of the vintagent's shortcomings. Judging by…

Best Aggregate Time by Sydney Allard (Allard) The Southampton .M.C., assisted by the R.A.F., deserve every possible credit for their organisation on May 12th, when they put over a speed…

A social visit to the National Motorcycle Museum is to be organised by the Lea-Francis OC on November 9th. The Museum is at Sicken Hill, Solihull, near the NEC, and…

British London-Sydney Marathon winner; American sportscar racing pioneer Colin Malkin This underappreciated rally star died in January aged 63. The eldest son of a Coventry motor dealer and rally driver,…

Rubens Barrichello will leave Ferrari at the end of this season as the fourth most successful driver in the team's history. The Brazilian's current tally of nine wins puts him…