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Motorsport Explosion! Britain's New Car Industry is in a decline, due to the recession, despite Rover, Ford, Vauxhall and Jaguar having spent between them £98.6million on advertising last year —…

An obituary by Don Williams, Trojan O.C. Historian. Readers will be sorry to learn of the death at the end of July of Group Captain A. F. Scroggs, whose successes…

Sir, The Edwardian motorist had to contend with Bobbies with whistles and stopwatches jumping out of hedges. Judging by a police "cameo" I recently witnessed nothing has changed. I was…

If you want to win at Indy, you need a good car. And George Bignotti. David Malsher catches up with the greatest crew chief of them all George Bignotti was…

I have been looking at the trial of Lord de Clifford, the last time a peer agreed to be tried "before God and his fellow peers", and so a slice…

At press time, uncertainty marked the future ownership of Lotus Cars, Lotus North America Inc and Lotus Engineering. A management buyout from GM ownership is a distinct possibility. This would…

At "Rusty" Russ Turner's excellent high-speed day at Ghent in Belgium, John Goddard's turbo-supercharged 3.8-litre Bentley did 126.59 m.p.h. over the two-way kilo, but a piston burnt out as the…

Sir, With reference to "Aggrieved and persecuted MG-B owner" in your May issue who thinks an open car attractive to the Police. I have driven in the course of my…

CONTENTS Page Matters of Moment Fiidures 1457 1458 News Formula One Scene 1459 1460 Looking Back On Stuart Lewis-Evans 1462 Road Impressions: Saab 9000 Turbo 16 1467 BMW M535i Lancia…

Qualifying When practice began late on Friday afternoon the sun was still burning down on the wooded slopes of the Francorchamps circuit and, apart from the two works BRMs of…

George Foxlee makes our mouths water It must at the outset be clear that I fully realise that I have been one of the lucky ones as far as motoring…

F. 1 – Formula 1 cars, i.e., up to 1 1/2 litres s/c, up to 4 1/2 litres non-s/c. F. II – Formula II cars, i.e., up to 2 litres…