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Earl Howe Explains Efforts to Secure Somewhere to Race On December 11th last year the R.A.C. Competitions Department called the second meeting of Approved Motor Clubs, with Earl Howe in…

Sir, To anyone who is interested in the B.R.M. project the matter of drivers must be causing a lot of thought. If this automobile is good enough to compete on…

It goes like it looks Ever since I experienced the 904 Porsche, with its mid-engine layout, I was convinced that this was the right formula for a sports car. Since…

A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters Hill's 1930 Alvis Silver Eagle Wins 1968 V.S.C.C. Pomeroy Memorial Trophy Only the Vintage S.C.C. could run this event, one feels. It was conceived…

Derek Bell Bell’s name will forever be associated with Le Mans, but his record at Daytona during the peak of his sports car career is phenomenal. In eight starts in…

Reflections – Button won his championship in the right way – Mosley offends royalty on the campaign trail – Piquet Jr has no one to blame but himself – Alonso…

Electrifying Le Mans Nissan will fill Garage 56 with an electric car in 2014, By Gary Watkins Nissan is to race at the Le Mans 24 Hours with an all-electric…

Coronation Trophy Fifty years ago, on April 24, 1937, a purpose-built motor racing circuit was opened in the grounds of the Crystal Palace Exhibition Centre at Sydenham in south-east London.…

RUMBLINGS With the F.I.A. taking an interest in the possibility of gasturbine ears appearing in raves and the B.A.B.C. offering a substantial prize for a high-speed Goodwood Diesels demonstration by…

When the Beatrice Formula 1 team ground to a halt at the end of 1986, Alan Jones welcomed the chance to spend more time at home in Australia. But he…

The weather rendered the Spanish GP a somewhat inconclusive affair, but Mansell and Williams still won It was a curiously frustrating event, the Spanish GP. Oh, Nigel Mansell still won,…

MATTERS OF MOMENT ENTHUSIASM Since the end of the second world war enthusiasm for motor sport in all its diverse and varied forms has soared to new heights. This enthusiasm…