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Support system F1 mechanics who fall on hard times can rely on a trust set up by JYS for help The Grand Prix Mechanics Trust (GPMT) was founded by Jackie…

THE East African Safari comes round every year and with monotous regularity reduces a field of about a hundred cars down to what can only be described as a handful.…

Lorenzo Bandini... Such a mellifluous name for a racing driver, it always seemed to me, like Clay Regazzoni or Johnny Servoz-Gavin. And they all looked the part, too. Bandini was…

To Monaco came a welcome reminder of the days when Grand Prix drivers endured pain with clenched teeth and sealed lips Television viewers the world over cannot have failed to…

Moments of heaven in a green hell BY RICHARD HESELTINE t taKes a speda sort of to ent to master tne ordscn dfe tnese are tne radng neroes wno, for…

Sir, I was interested in Mr. John Bolster's article "Rolls-Royce Reflections." It would be nice if, for example, Mr. Hutton Stott would give us a similar article on the 1919-31…

Top: "Driver of the Meeting" Richard Pilkingston, second in the 15-lap Allcomers' Race in Simm Phillips Cooper-Bristol. Left-a contrast in VSCC machinery, Freddie Giles' very quick-cornering KTOR-JAP-engined GN "Salome" seen…

Audi has commissioned British Specialists Crosthwaite and Gardner to build up to six exact replicas of the 1939 ex-HP Muller Auto Union V16 mountain-climbing car which will star at the…

Formula 1 teams have rushed into creating their own versions of McLaren’s controversial ‘F-duct’ system after it secured FIA approval. The duct – located on the chassis above the driver’s…

Tow new coupes Lancia Beta: We have yet to road test a Lancia Beta saloon so find it difficult to analyse the road behaviour differences between the saloon and the…

Upon climbing from his car to learn that his younger team-mate, Jacques Villeneuve, had just stolen pole position for the Australian Grand Prix, Damon Hill looked like he had just…

Sir, For the pedants amongst us, neither Mr Graham's nor Mr Garfitt's "replica" and "kit-car" respectively (Motor Sport, April 1987) will suffice; replica is simply incorrect, whilst kit-car avoids, on the…