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Just before the introduction of the New Escort, Ford issued a book called "The Car that won't stop winning" by Jose Rosinski, in four languages, about the many top competition…

Auto Trader British Touring Car Championship This should be a very easy preview to write a win for Tarquini and Alfa Romeo. The Italian has ignored all the controversy surrounding…

NEWS FROM THE U.S.A. CALIFOR NIA ROAD RACE PLANNED FOR DECEMBER. THE 1933 A.A.A. Championship season will be closed with a 100-mile road race in California, according to plans recently…

THE TARGA FLORIO. Albert Divo wins Sicilian Classic on a Bugatti. N May 5th last the twentieth Targa Florio road race was run on the famous Sicilian Circuit. This is…

"Conquerors Of The Air"", by Heiner Emde. 204 pp. 12 in. x 10¼ in. (Patrick Stephens Ltd., 9, Ely Place, London, E.C.1. 190s.) This is a lavishly produced history of…

Sir, Regarding the Nürburgring, celebrated in the October issue, my son and I have been to the 24-hour race for the last, I think, 13 years when the Dodge Viper…

The heading is not a parody on The Rover's Return in what is said to be TV's most popular "soap" but which to me seems pretty puerile: it refers to…

The pictures published last month under this heading have caused considerable correspondence. It can now be revealed that the car in picture 1 was an Enfield, in picture 2 a…

After a 12-year winless stretch long enough to put anyone off, Ken Tyrrell remains just as positive as he was during the glory days of the early 1970s. This month…

The Coupe Des Alpes and the new Sunbeam Alpine Even motoring journalists need a holiday, although we are often told that our job is one long holiday. So we decided…

ALLOWING that this feature is nearly as interested in aviation references in non-flying books as it is in cars and motoring personalities met in non-motoring books, I thought I knew…

In the end, the result was all too familiar: Ayrton Senna first, Alain Prost second. Nothing too surprising about that, in this age of McLaren-Honda domination of Formula One. Yet…