Articles from the archive

SIR, One would have thought that on his last appointment with your readers (Obituary, April) Giuseppe Bertone's name might have been spelled correctly. "Guiseppe" is not Italian. In any case,…

Jenks on USA, 1970 Last season the CSI hoped for a ‘Worldwide Formula for Racing’, an all-embracing capacity limit of four litres for Formula One, Sports and Prototype racing, American…

Sir, I feel that Froilan Gonzalez is often underrated because people only remember the winners of the world championship. Yet, in his first grand prix start, Gonzalez was third on…

"The reduction to a maximum engine capacity of 1.5-litres for Formula One racing cut costs drastically. There was a potent little engine available at relatively low cost—the Coventry-Climax."—From an Australian…

A motor journal can check accurately on the performance of cars submitted to it for road-test by using stop-watches, a fifth-wheel, electric speedometer, fuel flow meters, and so on. But…

Sir, I believe you may be interested in my Lea-Francis. Purchased some three months ago, she has now covered over 3,000 miles in my hands and has done all that…

Sir, Many thanks for the 'Super Cooper' issue of February. The contribution made by Charles and John Cooper to motor racing between 1946 and 1970 has, in recent times, tended…

Sir Having been a subscriber and reader of Motor Sport for over 23 years I feel qualified to voice my opinion of F1 racing as it appears to the supposed…

GERMAN GRAND PRIX E HAD THE INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY and the imagination to handle both the tactical and the strategic that and a clear-eyed ruthlessness when it mattered. Rudolf Caracciola was…

Parental guidance This month I'm going to look back to my earliest connections with motor racing. My father was a very successful amateur racing driver in the 1950s. Michael Head…

With Nigel Roebuck & Martin Brundle Lunch with Martin Brundle in an Italian restaurant in Knightsbridge, the plan to spend a relaxed couple of hours talking over the World Championship…

Coventry's Museum of British Road Transport has been given £77,420 as a result of an appeal for funds started seven years ago by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry. As…