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Rule changes have helped bolster the grid for this year’s British Touring Car Championship, with a welcome return for Audi Fender-to-fender racing, crashes, spills and thrills. It can only be…

Giancarlo BaghettiWe were saddened to learn of the death, on November 27, of Giancarlo Baghetti. He succumbed to cancer, aged 61. Baghetti was not well known to the public at…

By L. S. Michael, O.B.E. A well-found 4½-litre Lagonda or Invicta saloon or drophead of the nineteen-thirties gives a more than adequate performance in standard form, compared even with today's…

Another reader has rebuilt the Cooper-Bristol sports prototype which was taken to America by Winldeman and reputedly brought back here by Stephen Longton. Can anyone fill in the gaps? Letters…

Motor-Cycle Speedmen. J. S. WRIGHT. AS a general rule, the prominent motor-cycle speedmen of to-day have been recruited from the ranks of trade experts, from whence it is only to…

THE: 1933 LE MANS ASTON MARTIN CARS produced at the Aston Martin works have always had a distinctive character of their own, and the Le Mans model embraces in a…

NUVOLARI WINS AT TUNIS TWO MEMBERS OF THE FERRARI STABLE, NUVOLARI AND BORG kGCHINI, BOTH DRIVING ALFA ROMEOS, CROSS THE LINE WITH 1/5th OF A SECOND BETWEEN THEM. FOR some…

Prior to the South African Grand Prix on January 23rd, many teams took the opportunity to undertake some serious testing at the Kyalami circuit near Johannesburg. The Brabham team was…

Sir, I entirely agree with Mr. Joseph Bayley that an organisation should be formed to co-ordinate sprinting and hill-climbing in the car world. I am thinking principally about dates. I…

Memorable wins for Chris Ball (Brabham BT28) and Neil Fowler (Lola T200) were among the highlights of another first-class Historic Sports Car Club meeting. Ball's Classic Racing Car victory was…

Sir, A few years ago at Goodwood I found myself at lunch in the same sponsor's box as Alan Jones; being rather above his fighting weight, he apparently hadn't squeezed…

Sir, The Nottingham Sports Car Club, greatly impressed by the efforts of the Midland A.C., in raising funds for the B.R.M. machinery lorry, has been considering ways and means of…