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Every year it becomes more difficult to improve on the standards of the previous festival of speed. But this year it looks like they've donated it once again. Marcus Pye…

RACING WITH A 43-YEAR-OLD CAR The Story of the 1908 G.P. ITALA THE 1908 G.P. Rs " Floretta " has been written up many times in the motoring Press; by…

Braveworld Video, £10.99. Not even the most cynical producer of accident videos could come up with a title quite this violent. In fact, this was a cult film about 20…

Hostess with the most stress! Sir, Doug Nye’s piece in the May issue brought back some vivid and often happy memories. I worked for John Webb during 1961, basically running…

Until now the Jaguar XJS has been rather neglected in the "customising industry", but Tom Walkinshaw's TWR company in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, is ideally placed to exploit the potential of the…

Technical advances have made cars safer than ever, yet the 70 mph speed-limit still applies to our motorway network. It is exceeded by 10 mph by many drivers, as is…

Evolution is the word most often used to describe recent F1 design. But in the finalé of the Pomeroy Index revolutions still take place, and the cars stay quick though…

Elsewhere I have told you how to find out about the remaining 1977 traction-engine rallies. Motor Sport believes that some of its readers also like to include at least one…

Moving to Kent on September 15th, the VSCC ran a rally divided into four classes, for newcomers (nine of them, of whom the best performer proved to be G Crabtree…

ANOTHER CLUB MEETING AT DONINGTON C. W. P. HAMPTON IN THE LIMELIGHT AT BUGATTI AND VINTAGE CLUBS' JOINT MEETING CLUll gatherings at Donington, with races contested over the inanufacturer's circuit…

Sir Having just recently received my October copy of MOTOR SPORT, I write with reference to DM Landers' letter 'Unique or Very Unique'. My recollection is that there is at…

The biggest package of historic and classic racing ever unveiled by one organisation has been confirmed by the Masters Racing Series for 2008. In total, 12 race categories will compete…