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A FORERUNNER OF THE SPEEDBOAT A CRAFT WHICH CLOSELY RESEMBLED THE SEMIDISPLACEMENT BOAT OF TO-DAY WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT FORTY YEARS AGO TEL4 advent of the semi-displacement type of speedboat…

I bought a great wad of Weekend Daily Telegraph one Saturday, hoping to read what Doug Nye had to say about that BBC 1 Birkin motor racing drama, but it…

Sir, Can any of your readers recognise the make of this car? My late father photographed it about 35 years ago somewhere in Japan. He took a Bullnose Morris 2-seater…

NEW BOOKS At this time of year books are seasonable and, as one enthusiast, who has long since laid up his 3-lit re Bentley, remarks, "They are about the only…

Jaguar entered F1 in 2000 with great optimism, the cars presented with a lavish release at Lords. If a podium success was not expected in the first F1 season, at…

Politics and Sport There is a growing and regrettable tendency, I find, for people to let politics enter into their consideration of motorracing as a sport. Several times lately Englishmen…

Formula Junior is in a renaissance as a historic category, 45 years after its heyday. But can Motor Sport do a 130mph lap average? Words: Marcus Simmons. Photography: Andrew Ferraro/LAT…

The Porsche 917 is one of the machines in the running to be named Race Car of the Century; will it get your vote? Click below or scroll to the…

• A CURE FOR DEPRESSION Sir, I was interested to read the article concerning the present depressing state of motoring. Fortunately a way still exists for those who wish to…

Sir, Was it a coincidence that your February issue contained a feature on why Ferrari must become a championship force in Formula One again this year and another on heroic…

A RECORD LAND'S END TRIAL A huge entry dealt with satisfactorily by good organisation. Barton Steep and Hustyn the chief difficulties. 135 Premier Awards out of 343 starters. Tni o…

By the late ANTONIO ASCARI I am very pleased to have the opportunity of writing my experiences of the Grand Prix d'Europe, especially in The Brooklands Gazette, because I have…