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The 4th Lost Causes Rally was held at Beaulieu on April 28th. The entries, totalling 131, ranged from one car with one cylinder (a Ryte Craft) to several with eight…

As a result of financial difficulties experienced by the Bridgehampton circuit on Long Island, the seventh round of the Can-Am series was held at an entirely new circuit, Road Atlanta,…

Sir, Your article 'Stranger than Fiction" in the October edition refers to a bogus entry in the 1995 Brighton Run. This prompts me to pose the question as to what…

The Editor Contemplates Three Very Different Cars, From Vauxhall, BMW and Fiat The imposition of an overall 50 m.p.h. speed-limit, which we have had to endure on all our roads…

The 30th anniversary of the Audi Quattro will be a central theme of the Rally Show at Chatsworth in Derbyshire on June 5/6. Five ex-works rally cars will be in…

A snap appraisal of the first completely new car from British Leyland (To be read in conjunction with "Matters of Moment", page 419.) With the Mostest-from-Munich non-materialising, the Editor's surprise…

This Tojeiro pioneered the 'cart-before-the-horse' approach to GTs as Paul Parker explains Ecurie Ecosse's Tojeiro-Climax is a landmark car in the history of European sportscar racing. When it appeared in…

Stewart all the way Monte Carlo, May 23rd. For some strange and seemingly masochistic reason everyone wants to compete in the Monaco Grand Prix and, equally, everyone would like to…

ir.s..-snES-61131EICIAL WINS AT LEINSTEIV. Ireland has given us some excellent road races in which ordinary owners have had a particularly good opportunity of doing well and enjoying life, but this…

Sir, I have just received my May issue, please don't leave us in suspense. Somebody has got the better of Ron Dennis and 'extracted' 16 F1 cars and you give…

IMPORTANT MOTOR BOAT AND MARINE DEVELOPMENTS Ambitious Programme of The British Motor-Boat Manufacturing Co. Ltd. By "PROP SHAFT" DURING the years of the depression the virility of the motor-boat and…

It was an impressive debut by anyone's standards. The look of the thing may have been familiar, but this was the first race of a new car - even a…