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Sir, Having enjoyed the December issue immensely on a round-trip train journey today, I feel moved to write in relation to the treatment of Piquet in this edition. The Editorial…

M Hoy/ we doing, hey, hey ? The racing season seems somehow like The Times when one's wife has finished with it, a little bit out of joint. First the…

The Junior Car Club used to open the Brooklands season with driving tests there early in the year and in recent times the Vintage Sports Car Club has followed suit…

PRESCOTT PLEASURES IHAVE A CONFESSION TO MAKE. UNTIL THIS LAST MONTH I HAD never had the Prescott experience. Not the swashbuckling bloke who inexplicably became Deputy Prime Minister. No, I…

New F1 team Richards to set up team to run in 2008 world championship David Richards is set to return to Formula One in 2008 with a new Prodrive team.…

The race debut of the all-new Toyota TS030 Hybrid has been delayed until the Le Mans 24 Hours following a major accident in testing. The petrol-electric LMP1 coupe had been…

The big battle in sports car racing this year is between two teams with the quietest cars on the grid. Audi and Peugeot are competing to see who has the…

VETERAN CARS MAKE LIGHT OF BRIGHTON RUN 93 STARTERS-85 CARS COMPLETE THE COURSE—INTENSE PUBLIC INTEREST SHOWN. AFTER the Commemoration Run to Brighton on the 18th November, let no one say…

For the average Briton November 5 means only one thing. However this year it was not the potentially explosive events of 1605 that were uppermost in the minds of veteran…

On the surface it’s just another 911. But in its 45th year, Porsche’s flagship has undergone an internal revolution By Andrew Frankel If the normal rules of car development applied…

While Michael Schumacher might seem to have been justly punished for ignoring a black flag at Silverstone, there is a precedent for greater leniency. . . Back in 1956, 25-year…

"The Ford Owners Complete Handbook," by Wm. J. Lipsett. (Floyd Clymer, 143 pages, 1.50 dollars.) This book covers the servicing of all Ford V8 and six-cylinder passengers cars from 1932…