Articles from the archive

Simon Taylor Half a century ago, motorsport attracted a tiny fraction of the global following it has today. So when Ferrari won every round of the 1952 world championship, and Alberto…

For its 40th annual edition, Automobile Year has adopted a mildly 'retro' tone, with reflective pieces on dream cars, Formula One, the industrial onslaught of the Japanese and by the…

MILITARY COUP STOPS RALLY POLITICAL TURMOIL IN KASHMIR AND Pakistan has forced the organisers of the Arts de Vivre Maharaja Rally to postpone next February's event by 12 months. Event…

A section devoted to old-car matters On with the census The colleague who thought up and conducted the recently concluded Moror Sport Readers' Survey apparently cannot have too much of this sort of…

Ten thousand miles against the clock Philip Young and Gerard Brown Hefty review of the 2010 Peking-Paris. There are some fantastic photos and it’s actually a good read – rare…

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…