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"It is a matter for sorrow that those who lead the Trades Unions whose members are mostly employed in our factories, have cast their lot against joining the wider, and…

While the news wires continue to be dominated by electric cars, plug-in hybrids and range extenders, out there in the real world it is the small diesel that continues to…

Podcasts The Motor Sport site features our latest podcast this month, starring Damon Hill who popped into our office. Damon is renowned for being articulate and outspoken, and he didn’t…

A false dawn? Last month, our editorial touched upon Max Mosley's optimism that Formula One would be free of the odious controversies which marred much of 1994. Sad, then, that…

Hawthorn's first GP win set the superlatives flowing. No wonder, says Shaun Campbell, it was one of the great drives For the tens of thousands of spectators who lined the…

Ferrari feast As in every walk of life, the modelling world is fragmented into several special interest groups. On the one hand there are the white metal model manufacturers and…

A very special saloon Over the racing seasons the category that was always referred to as Special Saloons, or sometimes Super Saloons, has come to mean a very specialist branch of motorsport.…

When Colin Chapman was invited to the 1962 Indianapolis 500 by Dan Gurney, the Lotus founder surveyed the front-engined 'dinosaurs' on show there and famously remarked, "All you've got to…

Fastest time of the day was made by Dick Henderson at the wheel of his Cooper, the third occasion on which he had achieved this, having won at Craigantlet and SheIsley…

AN ELIMINATION TEST FOR THE BOL D'OR. IN order to ensure that the field of the race for the 13o1 d'Or should be evenly matched, the A.C.I.F. has decided this…

Soon after it was announced in 1963 the Triumph 2000 saloon made a great many friends, for it was a smooth-running, roomy six-cylinder family saloon. Since then it has shared…

Many years ago, when it was owned by T. G. Moore and edited by W. S. Braidwood, B.A. (Mech. Sc.) Cantab., Motor Sport  was known unofficially in certain quarters as…