Articles from the archive

It sits there, brooding, like some sulking schoolboy not allowed to play with his friends when he knows he could be the best striker on the pitch. Sporting a rear…

Silverstone back on historic map While the F1 teams haggle over the British GP's future, our premier track puts its historic racing house in order The British Racing Drivers' Club…

CG Grey will be remembered by the older readers of Motor Sport as the Founder and, until 1937, Editor of The Aeroplane.  He started that paper in 1911 and achieved world-wide fame for…

The French Grand Prix returned to Dijon Prenois on July 3rd and featured a tremendous battle for the lead between John Watson's Brabham BT45B (No. 7, above) and Mario Andretti's…

"The car, a special souped-up Citroën, went by so fast that many villagers didn't see it. Inside it, grinning hugely, was Idi Amin, President of Uganda. Someone had just given…

Daytona Cobra Coupes, by Peter Brock and George Stauffer. Stauffer, £69.99. There could scarcely be a better crew to write about Daytona Cobras: Stauffer owns a garageful, Brock was central…

The West Sussex Drivers' Club is organising a motor coach trip from Worthing to Silverstone on May 18th, and the Secretary would be pleased to hear from any motorists interested…

What a wonderful gift a year's subscription for MOTOR SPORT will be for your friends or members of your family. They will enjoy its original and distinctive features, its fearless criticism…

...or how style is sometimes used to solve probems that didn’t exist Some of you may remember I was once the editor of this title, others may still be trying…

Over the holiday period I was not only kept warm by one of the Brooklands Society's useful fleece jackets and had Torn Wheatcroft's book to enjoy. I also had another…

Motor racing began with almost unbelievably epic events, often over hundreds of miles of unsurfaced roads. Bill Boddy reminds us of these pioneer feats of town-to-town endurance I find it…

By Alan Henry ISBN 1-874557-78-0 Published by Hazleton, £40.00 There are no big surprises here, no sleeved tricks, just a straight-forward chronology of the World Championship. If ever there was…