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Sir, I must disagree with Simon Yates' letter in last month's Motor Sport. As he states, Grand Prix racing is a highly exciting sport, but it is also an extremely…

" 'Motor Cycling' Road Tests - 4th Series." 60 pp. 10 1/2 in. by 8 1/4 in. (Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.1. 5s.) This annual reprint of…

Riccardo Patrese is an enigma. He was once seen as the Bad Boy of Formula 1, arrogant and wild, and so disliked by some of his fellow drivers that they…

Sir, To follow up on the Melhalla circuit and whatever happened to it, contact your friends at Automobile Quarterly. In the late 1970s or early `80s, they did a superb…

Kids can be so greedy. Surely the spectacle of Gilles Villeneuve dragging half his Ferrari around Zandvoort and Alan Jones notching up a third straight win in the new-fangled Williams…

SPEED LIMITS WHEN the general speed limit of 20 m.p.h. was abolished in January, 1931, under the Road Traffic Act, it was felt by owners of sports ears that a…

July 18: Manuel Gião loses his victory in the recent Nürburgring Formula Opel Euroseries round. After a protest, the Portuguese is deemed not to have been running when the race…

A Different Sphere Feeling considerably out of his depth, the Editor drove to the Demonstration of British Military Vehicles, which the S.M.M.T. and M.O.S. had arranged on September 30th, at…

miscellany ANOTHER 1920s BROOICLANDS car which has survived is the 2-litre straight-eight Miller owned by Karl F Bloechle of Zurich. Mr Bloechle drives it on the road quite often and…

Ford of Germany produced the last European Capri in December 1986, one of 1036 RHD Capri 280s now in our showrooms. We watched Cologne's production euthanasia of a coupe almost…

Otti4 /lewd 750 CLUB The 750 Club held yet another war-time meeting on September 7th at the Ashdown Park Hotel. Amongst those present were Secretary Capon, in his Riley saloon…

Toyota's top-selling coupe has taken another step forward with the introduction of the fourth generation Celica. Notable about the all-new car is that it has gone front-wheel-drive, and it won't…