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Continental Notes and News By HAROLD NOCKOLDS The " Acceleration Record." IT will be remembered that right at the end of last season a duel accured between Cobb on the…

Sir, In answer to your correspondent W. Gibbs, Jean Bugatti did complete a practice rim at Shelsley in 1932, crashing during a later run. C. A. N. May in his…

The new kid always gets the worst jobs. That's the way it would have seemed if you had wandered into the Sauber Mercedes pit garage on a bright winter's day…

Solihull sulks I write to you with some suggestions as to why BL do not sell the same number of cars as their competitors, I purchased a new Rover 26005…

Sir, As a long-time owner of a 1,192-c.c. VW, may I add yet another letter to your file? I bought my car in Penang, operated it there for 18 months,…

On New Year's Day VSCC members congregate at various venues, to endorse the start of another season's activity, to the delight of users of modern vehicles judging by the numbers…

EDITORIAL NOTES. Ramblings, Rumours and Reminiscences. Being Asides About All Sorts of Things. TO argue that the design of the sporting car of to-day may influence not only the touring…

The collection of 16 Marlboro McLaren MP4 Grand Prix cars, which was acquired by David Clark's consortium, as reported in Motor Sport last month, has been sold intact and is…

THE FASTEST SPORTS CAR Sir, Discussions in MOTOR SPORT regarding the fastest sports-car seem to have centred round Mr. Lycett's 8-litre Bentley; the general opinion of the ex-Birkin blower 4-i,…

Jimmy Clark's luck might have been in that day at Sneffellon as his Lotus 23 stripped first gear on the over-long stating grid, yet somehow everyone found a way past…

by Christopher Hilton. 171pp. 8” x 5”. (Transworld Publishers Ltd, 61-63 Uxbridge Road, Ealing, London W5 5SA. £3.95) For a straightforward biography of this country’s leading Formula One driver, you…

These days, when every manufacturer worth his salt lists one, the diesel-engined private car is taken very much for granted. But there had to be a beginning. The examples of…