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A non-championship race at Silverstone in early November offered the BRDC Historic Sports Car racers a late-season thrash, and it was John Harper who mastered the greasy conditions best in…

The Editor samples some two-stroke motoring in an Auto-Union D.K.W. F102 and a Saab Sport, and two-pedals a General Motors' Pontiac Parisienne THERE have been rumours lately that D.K.W. and…

We hear Phil Hill's Alfa-Romeo, well known in American races, is a short-chassis 2.9 not a 3.8 as stated last month. A 11/2-litre twin ohc racing Austro-Daimler, one of which was…

I am standing on a low grass bank, surrounded by a Surrey replica of Scottish rally terrain. The gods have even laid on similar weather to the June Scottish Rally.…

A JOINT EVENT COMBINED TRIAL OF GREAT WEST AND KENTISH BORDER CLUBS IN SURREY AND HANTS WHATEVER the outcome of the reform of reliability trials, now being deliberated by the…

44 CMN is the actual car, the Audi UK car, that Blomqvist drove to victory on the 1983 RAC, his first win that year and his first in a GpB.…

THE SUNBEAM ALPINE Sir, I must concur with your correspondent Mr. Leslie Seyd in his views on the Sunbeam Alpine. I have owned a t,6o0-c.c. model for the past year…

IT is inevitable that in every walk of life we at times become too complaisant, take success and convenience too much for granted, forgetful of the shortcomings of the past…

Running a Formula One team is a drama enacted on a very public stage. You get glory when you win, and you get an endless stream of complacent, told-you-so criticism…

The name of 71-year-old Fritz Schlumpf has been known in the world of old cars for many years, though his 74-year-old brother Hans is not so well known. The Schlumpf…

ANTICIPATING A NEW MODEL? Sir, In view of your recent references to the Rover 2000 which you have acquired as your personal car, you may be interested in the engine…

Michael Schumacher wasn't the first German GP star to make his name in a Mercedes sportscar. Hartmut Lehbrink reviews Wolfgang von Trips' early career The president of the Cologne Porsche…