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Bowing out Gerhard Berger sustained his winning momentum to reel off his second victory in a fortnight when the Grand Prix circus arrived in Adelaide for the Australian Grand Prix,…

"The Diaries of an RFC Officer" Sir, The War Time Diaries of an RFC Officer — what interesting reading this makes. Although you may meet criticism from motor racing purists…

It doesn't happen often, but just once in a while you get a race that not only lives up to its promise but actually exceeds it. Anyone who was there…

The first MS650 is sure to draw buyers to France next month, while online auctions are also a big pull Every year Porte de Versailles in Paris fills with thousands…

REFLECTIONS Why Schumacher should have been bannedIt’s time to change the rule on team orders Watching the Edmonton IndyCar race on TV, I was more than a touch nonplussed when…

Sir, Am I the only person to feel intensely irritated by the antics of amateur photographers at race meetings? You see an interesting car in the paddock so naturally you…

CAR PARKING AT THE NORTH—EAST COAST EXHIBITION The R.A.C. is responsible for the car parking at the North East Coast Exhibition, which is being held in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and which will…

In the article on exhaust systems in the August issue of Motor Sport, I made a nonsense of the description of the four exhaust pipes on the twin turbo-charger layout…

Marimon has his First Grand Prix Win Castelfusano, June 6th. Every weekend in the summer months the populace of Rome go to the Mediterranean coast to the holiday resort of…

Gordon Murray's F1 ideal It all came from a comment that Gordon Murray made over five years ago. We were talking about the then-just-launched McLaren road car he had designed…

Sir, Just to put Mr. J. L. M. Cotter (Letters, July issue) straight following his criticism of the AA and its reaction to Government motoring policies, he is obviously ignorant…

Through the 1959 season John Cooper's little company in Surbiton was still the only one building, and racing, rear-engined grand prix cars. Colin Chapman was running his ‘mini-Vanwall', the Lotus…