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From "Window on My Heart" by Olave Lady Baden-Powell, GBE (Hodder & Stoughton, 1973) comes an interesting reflection on how dependable the better cars were even before the First World…

It was his character as much as his skill behind the wheel that made Jim Clark the drivers' driver By Nigel Roebuck I was at Brands Hatch when I heard…

Sir, Perhaps you will allow me a few more lines to defend my earlier suggestions ? To start with, may I make it quite clear that my criticisms are personal;…

The first of a new series in which senior racing car designers nominate a machine they didn't design, but which they admire either for technical ingenuity, elegant simplicity, or sheer…

The Third Meeting of the Clubs, held at the R.A.C. on November 18th, gave organisers and competitors a chance to hand the R.A.C. Competitions Committee verbal bouquets, followed by numerous…

A solitary glass of whisky in hand, knee-deep in children's toys and with his wife away in hospital giving birth. . . it was not exactly how John Day had…

Full of Eastern promise It may be two or three years before all the benefits of FISA's attention to the World Sports-Prototype Championship can be gauged, but immediately evident is…

When the old-car movement came into being it was possible to find suitable cars at give-away prices all over the place in the back of garages, in country barns, even…

Leading technology Alpine's satellite navigation system uses digitised mapping, a remote control, display monitor, built-in GPS receiver and antenna, vibration gyroscope, and speed pulse sensor. A multimedia system, it can…

He had unraveled his new car's complexities but, he tells Adam Cooper, could never have anticipated the simple problem that cost him the race The Unser family is synonymous with…

You know the way it is with hot hatches. Each successive generation is more powerful than the last, but only to mask the fact that it's also heavier and less…

J. H. T. Smith's K3 Magnette The K3 MG Magnette burst upon the sporting world in 1933 with an impressive debut; the first prototype took part in the Monte Carlo Rally…