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The rich petroleum industry, automatically associated with tough 'oil barons' in the Ewing image, palatial office premises, and understandable jealousy over brand names, has a lucrative customer in the world's…

The 40th anniversary of the first Formula Ford race was marked during the HSCC’s Historic Festival meeting at Brands Hatch in early July. It was on July 2, 1967 that…

Not so very long ago, about three years in fact, the most important events in the competition programmes of factory teams, both in Britain and on the Continent, were those…

Over the next five issues we will list the 100 best drivers of all time. Many will disagree, others will say comparing past and present is meaningless. MOTOR SPORT regular…

Our second series of track tests starts with the grand-father of Grand Prix racing. Andrew Frankel heads to Italy and discovers all is not well at Monza. Monza. No word…

Sir, I read with interest Nigel Roebuck’s article on Giuseppe Farina, and especially about how he never liked signing autographs. At the 1951 Goodwood Whitsun meeting I got him to…

Sir, I have recently been in Singapore for a few days where I found, to my pleasure, a copy of Motor Sport of fairly recent date. This renewal of the…

Dallara’s new Daytona Prototype has had its first test in South Carolina. Max Angelelli drove SunTrust’s Pontiac-powered DP-01 and said it was ”the most neutral handling new car I’ve driven”.…

Green Races Red, by Eddie Irvine with Maurice Hamilton. Collins Willow, £14.99. With the aid of Maurice Hamilton's knack of telling a good story, this book describes Irvine's difficult year…

Nissan spent a fortune on its four-wheel-drive Group A rally machine. Neat, compact and bristling with gizmos... it flopped. John Davenport tells why the Sunny couldn't stand the heat When…

MOTORING AS IT WAS A Look Back to the Roads of the 1920s Continued from the September issue WE LEFT Owen John, that amateur motoring writer and philosopher whose way…

April fuel day The Monza 1000km race on April 10 had all the classic ingredients, Jaguar versus Mercedes versus Porsche, and the Silk Cut team ended the day with a…