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European sports prototype trophy cars will be one of the star attractions at what is touted to be the final ever race meeting at the famous Montlhéry circuit, near Paris,…

The HSCC plans to re-work the Derek Bell Trophy in 2009, switching the focus to historic Formula 5000 and F2 cars. As F5000 marks its 40th anniversary in Britain, five…

The January races in New Zealand were once again run to a capacity limit of 2-1/2-litres and were a virtual Coventry-Climax benefit series, though one wonders whether next year a…

Last month we suggested that the Mercedes Sixty which won the 1903 Gordon Bennett race in Ireland, driven by Camile Jenatzy, was afterwards owned in the vintage years by Sir…

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WE LEFT Mr. Rapson in the unenviable position of having submitted his much criticised "unpunctureable" tyres to a 10,000-mile RAC-observed test from which he had to withdraw after 5,732 miles…

MOTORING SPORTSMEN. Mr. Vernon Balls. By THE EDITOR. TT is a well-known fact that the most successful men in the racing world do not hold the monopoly of sportsmanship, though,…

WHEN the London School of Flying advertisements first appeared in this magazine last year, it jolted a few of us die-hard motorists at MOTOR SPORT into wondering aloud if a…

CLASS I RECORDS On October. 16th, F. Lehder captured four Class 1 (351-500 c.('.) records on the Ingolstadt-Mnnich autobahn. These are the f.s. kilometre, mile, 3-kilometre and 10-kilometre records, which…

The Jaguar Car Club is combating the shortage of marshals at many race meetings by paying all volunteer officials £10 per day at its 2002 race meetings. David Kane, who…

At the time of the Monte Carlo Holly Gordon Bedson and J. Saunders set out to drive as quickly as possible from the R.A.C. in London to Monte Carlo in…

Compliments from the United States T.4A ST March we commented on an article in the February issue of Esquire entitled "Imported Horsepower." It has recently come to our notice that…