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MotoGP King Valentino Rossi has vowed that he will continue racing motorcycles despite suffering the first serious injury of his career at the Italian Grand Prix in June. The nine-time…

THE GERMAN HILL-CLIMBING GRAND PRIX Fastest time by Stuck (Auto-Union), but Seaman (E.R.A.) is only one k.p.h. slower The Freiburg hill-climb is regarded in Germany as a Grand Prix, being…

GOTHIC OR CLASSIC? Sir, I sometimes read MOTOR SPORT with a certain amount of amusement, especially the references to R.-R.—you do really seem to have "a flea in the car,"…

We don’t know the real Kimi Räikkönen and Fernando Alonso, do we? The two World Champions, who will soon be lining up on the grid for a brand new Grand…

Automobile Year No 35,1987-88 Edited by Jean Rodolphe Piccard. 256pp. 121/4 x 91/4". (Motor Racing Publications Ltd, Unit 6, Piton Estate, 46 Pitlake, Croydon CRO 3YR. £22.95.) The original high-class…

Flying Count Followers of Grand Prix racing will know that Count Felice Trossi was a successful driver of 8C, Monza, and P3 monoposto Alfa Romeos and of Maserati cars before…

Sports Cars at Olympia THERE is no doubt that the vogue of the standard car race has done a great deal to enlarge the choice of genuine sports models available…

"Automobile Tyres" by L. J. K. Setright. 195 pp., 8 1/2 in. x 5 1/8 in. (Chapman & Hall Ltd., 11, New Fetter Lane, London, EC4P 4EE. £3.25.) There has…

After several days of cold winds, the weather turned fine for the opening meeting of the B.R.S.C.C. at Brands Hatch on Easter Monday. The entry list was not as good as…

Forghieri on Ferrari 1947 to present Mauro Forghieri and Daniele Buzzonetti "Unlike [Vittorio] Jano, I had the advantage of not being known in the GP world, so no way was…

Nige's Turbo ChargeSir, Damien Smith's article on Nigel Mansell's Lotus days in the February edition was thoroughly enjoyable and utterly fair. However, I would like to point out that Mansell's…

It's got pedigree, enormous power and a truly exotic price tag, so it should provide a brilliant drive. Not so, says Frankel. It's flawed in concept and could have been…