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While at Indianapolis last year, driving a Mickey Thompson car with rear-mounted V8 Buick engine, Dan Gurney had the idea that Colin Chapman could build a car that could win…

Maserali 250Fs Sir, The May issue of Motor Sport contains a report on the recent VSCC meeting at Silverstone. In it you compare the performance of Neil Corner's "proper" (as you term…

Sponsorship Clashes Hit USAC The USAC Championship Car series, which runs throughout the year in America almost entirely on oval tracks and includes such races as the Indianapolis 500, the…

It was while reading, ten years ago, that very entertaining book about life at Rolls-Royce by the late Mr. W. A. Robotham (Constable, 1970), that I came to realise what…

R.A.C. TOURIST TROPHY RACE. Entries for the Tourist Trophy Race, promoted by the Royal Automobile Club for standard cars, closed at the 15 guinea fee at midnight on Thursday, 29th…

The trend of design lnspite of all the anti-pollution and fuel conservation restrictions, automobile design shows little curbing of initiative. The diesel engine, which Motor Sport has advocated, is making…

porting rs on the _P.a.' THE 4A LITRE INVICTA. BY THE EDITOR. THERE is always a special interest in a run on a car which has some particular performance to…

An ex-Jim Clark Lotus 25 sold for just under half a million pounds during the H&H Auction at Cheltenham.  Chassis R5 was rebuilt by Clark’s 1963 engineer Cedric Selzer and…

(August 6th) Unfortunately a day of continual heavy rain-showers after the first runs in the smaller sports-car classes made a nonsense of subsequent times up the Bugatti OC's hill. Under these…

Berne, August 22nd. Cold and damp weather was the chief factor at the Swiss Grand Prix, held over 66 laps of the Bremgarten Circuit on the edge of Berne. As…

LE MARATHON DE LA ROUTE Police regulations are increasingly curbing the plans of Continental rally organisers, but by running an event which was almost three thousand miles long and by…

The Elto World's Record. IN my comments, which I made in these columns last month, regarding Mr. Charles Harrison's latest achievement with "Non Sequitor III," I made the assumption that…