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Peter Piper Sir, Reading WB's fascinating account of Bill Little's motoring life (MOTOR SPORT, December 1989), I wondered if he had suffered a minor lapse of memory concerning Anthony Howard…

A look at Beaulieu's motoring monument at the end of its Silver Jubilee Year Her Majesty The Queen was not alone among famous Britons to celebrate a Silver Jubilee in…

Just as British race fans inevitably leap to the defence of Silverstone as an iconic cornerstone of the country’s motorsporting bedrock, so Brazilian fans revere the Autodromo Jose Carlos Pace…

Gerry Birrell was in line for a Tyrrell drive when his life was cut short. Adam Cooper recalls a man who could have been an F1 star It was a…

THE enthusiasm of the motor sportsman has been put to a very severe test by the outbreak of war. On every hand there is proof that it has withstood this…

BRM had attempted it with disastrous results, but the allure of 16 cylinders was still strong 15 years later. Wally Hassan's new F1 Engine showed lots of promise; Trouble was,…

The annual re-union of Brooklands motorcyclists was held at the "Hand & Spear," Weybridge, on the evening of April 30th, organised by Rex Judd, who, in spite of a recent…

RA.R.C. MAIM E RACES The B.A.R.C. are now letting Bristol Aces and Healey .3000s into the Marque 'Races as a result of clamour from the Bristol Ace boys. Fine., let…

To preserve an important piece of Brooklands' history Jim Baxter has built up an interpretation of the motorcycle ridden by G E (`Wizard) Stanley there in 1912; he was the…

Twenty years ago, at the Frankfurt Auto Salon in 1963, Dr Ferry Porsche unveiled the Porsche 901 which, through an accident of fate, was renamed the 911 by the time it…

More money for Grovewood Awards The 1971 Grovewood Motor Racing Awards were presented last month at a reception in a London hotel and the proceeding screened on BBC2's Wheelbase programme.…

Enigmatic doesn't come close. A loner, with long hair and Zapata moustache, spends a decade roaming North America, a nomad with a van and a compass but no clock as…