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CARS IMPROVE with time and over six years you can expect great advances from most manufacturers. Except in the case of the sporting models from Mazda, which spent this period…

Brake manufacturer AP Racing doesn't shout about its success in Formula 1 and beyond. But the technology behind its ground-breaking stopping power has a wider relevance, for the benefit of…

When Ford recently launched the Sierra Ghia 4x4 Estate one detected a certain amount of reticence in the way it was shown to journalists it was a Ford Sierra Estate,…

Sir, It is understandable that you should wax eulogistic about Daimler and Rolls-Royce, with anniversaries of one kind or another concerning them, coming thick and fast. It is at least…

Sir, What an excellent journal yours is. Not only can one read it and re-read it and browse among the adverts, but on three occasions now it has got me…

Roberto the racehorse had a successful career, capped by a 1972 Derby success with assistance from Lester Piggott. For Roberto the racing driver, life has yet to scale such happy…

Australian G.P. F. Pratt's 328 B.M.W. started favourite in this handicap race, held before some 30,000 spectators at Point Cook airfield. He finished not far ahead of A. Najar's Special…

Duxford SOME thirty, years ago, use after the war, five brand new Short Stirlings, complete with twenty engines and a mountain of spares, changed hands for £2,000. Today there are…

On my way to the Motor Sport office I used to drive along the Embankment. One day I encountered a stationary steam tractor and took a photograph of it. The…

TN the previous article an attempt was made to show 4the direct relationship between springing and speed, and to indicate how it is that a rough road is more difficult…

Sir Your excellent article in the July issue regarding 'Honda' racing engines prompted me to search out this snap taken during the first practice session for the 1967 British GP…

[When I met Sidney Whitehead riding his racing tricycle last year I hardly suspected him of motoring sympathies. I only hope I concealed my feelings at the time, for I…