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OUT LIKE A LION APPALLING WEATHER CONDITIONS AT SOUTHSEA SPEED TRIALS, WHICH CONCLUDED TEE 1937 SPEED SEASON. FASTEST TIME BY ARTHUR BARON (2.3 BUGATTI) The 1937 season of speed events…

THE GRAND PRIX OF SWITZERLAND CONVINCING VICTORY FOR AUTO-UNIONS DRIVEN BY VON STUCK AND MOMBERGER OVER ALFA-ROMEO, MERCEDES-BENZ, BUGATTI AND MASERATI. H. C. HAMILTON KILLED ON LAST LAP. THE first…

The popularity of rallies was nicely portrayed by the entry of 452 cars which the M.C.C. received for the national event it organises annually - this year from November 11th…

Some years ago Motor Sport tested the Bond Minicar and reported on it enthusiastically, considering that in the course of this test the flywheel magneto shed a vital wire, a…

Stoneman treated for cancer FIA Formula 2 Champion Dean Stoneman's career is on hold after he was diagnosed with testicular cancer. The 20-year-old had been due to graduate to the…

Just turn the key and go. Sure, the clutch is stiff but not the cartilage-crushing heft of the 935, and the six-speeder requires more effort than the one in your…

Sir, I write to thank you for your excellent magazine which continues, even now, to amaze me with its unbiased and sensible approach to all things motoring. And please, another…

Sir, Your article about the Straker-Squire was of great interest to me, as the late W. B. (Barney) Horn was an old friend and I remember the car when it…

McLaren and its Formula 1 engine supplier Mercedes-Benz will go head to head in the 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship. Two frontrunners in the World Championship will run the respective…

Whilst the T.T. had basked in OuIton Park sunshine, the Ilford Films 500-mile race for GT and sports cars at Brands Hatch the following week started in a torrential downpour…

The Vintage SCC holds its last race meeting of the season at the challenging Cadwell Park circuit on August 26th with a full afternoon's racing on the programme. We can…

Sir I was intrigued by WB's notes on the pre-war Mercedes transporters which appeared in the recent MOTOR SPORT and I thought I ought to write about a unique hearse…