Articles from the archive

It used to be common practice, and still is, for manufacturers to examine, test and even dissect the cars of competitors to discover what the opposition had to offer. In…

Club Secretaries are specially invited to send the Editor paragraphs about the activities of their Clubs, and, in particular, notice of forthcoming events. All reports of competitions, meetings and other…

Individual variations on the XJS theme... It is now more than 12 years since Guy Black, then an engineer with Weslake's at Rye, carried out his first old car restoration project…

Sir, Another Sprint? My answer would be "no" as well, but mainly because of the way the car was assembled in the first place, not because poor servicing has let…

Sir, Being born just after the event, I was totally ignorant of the matters referred to in the article headed "Those Tax Concessions" in your October 1977 issue. However, I…

Good news continues to roll into the UK car market. Figures recently released for September this year showed that more than 400,000 cars were registered in a single month for…

This meeting, sponsored by the Daily Telegraph, is for sports cars and Formula Ill racing cars and is being held by the Welsh Motor Racing Club (Swansea), Ltd., at the…

Now that B.R.M. have won a Grand Prix race, admittedly a small one, we are in the happy position of each of our current Formula 1 Grand Prix teams having…

Jenks on Mexico '64 I have never been a great enthusiast of the drivers' world championship's system of points-chasing for many reasons, and in the past it has been shown to…

From the very opening meeting in 1907, women competed at the surrey track. While some races were ladies-only, often they raced on equal terms with the men. Bill Boddy recalls…

The Formula 5000 Surtees TS11 that US racer Sam Posey took to second place in the 1972/73 Tasman Series will return to New Zealand and Australia this winter for the…