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His cars won Monaco, Le Mans and Indy. He recalls that Colin Chapman enjoyed acting up to an audience, and that John Surtees was paid well to drive a flexible…

Perhaps I just don't eat enough seafood, but I've never quite been able to picture how the Brabham BT34 earned the soubriquet 'lobster claw' — although its unusual disposition of twin…

"Action Stations— 1: Wartime military airfields of East Anglia 1939-1945" 232 pp, 9" x 6" by Michael JF Bowyer. (Patrick Stephens Ltd., Bar Hill, Ccmtbridge, CB3 8EL £7.95). This is a book…

You'd be forgiven for thinking that competition was the last thing on Gil de Ferran's mind during the 1992 British F3 season. De Ferran gave Paul Stewart Racing its first…

Ford Gets Jaguar IN AN AGE of takeovers and amalgamations, it has come nevertheless as a profound shock to many enthusiasts that Ford (UK) has acquired Jaguar, a car as…

Three hours into the job it's a trifle premature to pass judgment on Andrew Craig, CART's next president and chief operating officer. Still, you only get one chance to make…

Many Stewart fans were very upset that he did not win the South African Grand Prix, but they should not be, for he has not won a race since the…

NOTES ON ALUMINIUM ALLOY PISTONS. By a TECHNICAL CORRESPONDENT. NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that sporting motorists, devoted to car or motor cycle speed work respectively, are unanimous as to the theoretical…

I HAVE found out a bit more about the two Brescia Bugattis pictured last month on page 1035. They figured in an advertisement in a Brooklands race programme for the…

BEGINNERS' LUCK Participation in Continental Events to-day is fraught with difficulty. Consequently, this account by J. Gott of how three I :1,-litre H.R.G.s, driven and navigated by novices, won the…

Although it is splendid period reading, about the First World War and the 1920s, "The Private Diaries Of Rider Haggard — 1914-1925", edited by D. S. Higgins (Cassell, 1980), is…

Sir, Reference Mr. Peter Ward's letter from Australia in your June issue, I should like to pass on a few comments taken from Show numbers of Auto magazine in 1925…