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Prancing Horses gallop apace through this issue! We carry a rare and exclusive interview with the man who hopes to become the next Ferrari Formula 1 World Champion, and there’s…

Sir, I've enjoyed recent issues of Motor Sport even more than usual and was most interested in the expenences of Mr. J. B. Perrett. On the subject of "roll centre"…

Only clubs whose secretaries furnished the necessary information prior to the 14th of the preceding month are included In this list C = Closed Event. CI = Closed Invitation Event.…

Not the famous author but his two sons. Both were keen drivers and competed in a variety of arenas in the 1930s Ithink Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who wrote the…

Motor Sport is supporting the 2003 Mount Stuart Motorsport Classic, the two-day automotive festival staged at the ancestral home of the Marquis of Bute in Scotland. The magazine is to…

A clause of the 1962 Finance Act refers to all vehicles on the road requiring a "Road Fund" Licence, whether or not they are proceeding under their own power. This…

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…