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The Silk Cut Jaguar team came close to winning the 1986 World Sportscar Championship despite taking the chequered flag only once, at Silverstone, and its effort will be even more…

Sleep is for wimps: drinking when not driving on the Mille Miglia Attending the start of this year's Mille Miglia vividly brought back the only time I have taken part…

Taken overall the annual Monaco GP round the streets of Monte Carlo never really got off the ground. As a modern Grand Prix race the Monaco event is something of…

Many claims have been made about the location of the first race in America for production cars, which came to be known as stock cars. The majority of these accounts…

The return to racing of veteran historic competitor Frank Sytner after he suffered a major heart attack at the 2011 event will be the big story of this year's Donington…

It's OK to smile As we greet the arrival of 1993, our enthusiasm for the forthcoming sporting year is marked with a degree of caution. The past 12 months will…

1976 United States GP at Watkins Glen How did the drive come about with the Wolf /Williams team? I got involved because Chris Amon, who was my team-mate in the…

THE B.R.D.C. " 500 " JOHN COBB (NAPIER RAILTON) WINS DEVASTATING RACE AT 127.05 m.p.h. RILEYS SECOND AND THIRD, FIFTH AND NINTH. MANY RETIREMENTS Tug curtailed " 500 " of…

FORM IN THE BEER The Brighton-Beer Trial of the Brighton and Hove M.C. was a Brighton-Beer run in name only, for competitors actually started around midnight from Lobscombe Corner, and…

Vauxhall Vectra The Cavalier is phased out at last, but hasn't Vauxhall forgotten something? The press pack for the new Vectra is very studiously written: nowhere are the words 'Vauxhall'…

THE INSTITUTION OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERS On January 4th, before the Institution of Automobile Engineers, Dr. F. W. Lanchester, LL.D., F.R.S., read his paper, and that of his brother, G. H.…

Panshanger Flying Club Commemorative Display, Sept. 4th. To matk the 50th anniversary of destruction of first German airship over this country. Static display, especially airship exhibits; flying display and handicap…