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CO-INCIDING with Vatanen's World Rally Championship, Grand Prix Models of 173-175, Watling Street, Radlett, Herts have released a precision scale model of the Rothmans Group 4 rally Ford Escort, decalled…

Ni e Roebuck I ast month, in writing about Gilles Villeneuve, I railed against the statisticians in our sport — those whose opinions are shaped, more than anything else, by…

By OUR CONTINENTAL CORRESPONDENT The Decider It will be interesting to see what happens at Monza in the Italian Grand Prix. This is generally the last race of the season…

Criticism of Present-Day Races — and a Possible Solution Sir. During the past six weeks the British Motoring Press has featured a number of letters and articles bemoaning the status…

The bulk of this issue is taken up with Cecil Clutton's masterful article on Sports Car Evolution. To those A Matter of History this painstaking study in which, for the…

Paris, at shortly after 8 a.m., and the promise of a fine, bright day. The car which was promised had not shown up, so, as the Major and I were…

TWO-STROKE TERRORS Mat Oxley YEARS AGO A NEW WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP GAVE bith to a crazy kind of tyre-shredding, piston-meting motorcycle. The Formula 750 series was designed to give the latest…

INTER-VARSITY TRIAL. VICTORY FOR THE DARK BLUES Whatever else the undergraduate cannot do, he can certainly coax curious motors up impossible hills and get the maximum enjoyment from so doing.…

The late twenties Grand Prix scene was swamped by Bugatti, creating a surge of French circuits. Tim Scott visits a coastal town with an appetite for road racing. Standing in…

We hear... Richard Chichester and Major Lambton made valiant efforts to drive a 1923 American-built "Silver Ghost" Rolls-Royce home to England from Jerusalem, including flying to this country and back…

Those Push-Bike Rear Lights. AF l‘.7 days ago, a Birmingham policeman died as a result of having been knocked off his bicycle, at night, by a motorist who altogether failed…

Well met at Race Retro Just about everyone in the old car business heads to Kenilworth in February for Britain's biggest historic motor sport show A very social do, Race…