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Le Mans 24-Hour Race Tickets The two basic types of tickets available for public enclosures at the Le Mans 24-Hour classic are Enceintes des Virages (about £12) and Enceintes Generales…

AND THEY CALL THIS LOGIC! The sports-car owner has always been a villain in the eyes of magistrates and coroners, and certain incidents of the last few months have brought…

Remembering Parry Thomas Pendine Community Council held a rally on Easter Saturday to commemorate the birth of racing-driver Parry Thomas, who was killed on the Carmarthen beach in 1927 attempting to regain…

Sir, The arguments in your correspondence columns as to which is really the Best Car in the World are very interesting but everyone seems to have overlooked the most important…

A Pressman's Holiday. IHAVE often thought how interesting it would be to have a register of all the old sports and racing cars in England with a history behind them.…

In this month’s magazine we touch on a number of those dream drives. We all have them, whether you want to be Mario Andretti in a black and gold Lotus…

Sir, Surely my fellow Australian Barry Batagol has not got his facts right when questioning the accuracy of your Le Mans report, which specifically referred to McLaren's outstanding achievement on…

Yuletime Fun with a Vintage Light Car [Warning! This article is intended only for vintage-car enthusiasts and sentimentalists. Ed.] On the evening of Boxing Day last year your Editor hit…

As two different dates were quoted for Hans von Stuck's appearance at Shelsley Walsh with the Auto-Union, in last month's article on the famous hill-clintb, it should be made clear that…

Sir, I would concur with Shaun Campbell (Going Downhill Fast, August) that the singular talent possessed by Jim Clark was not sheer speed, but his ability to put in startlingly…

CARS I HAVE OWNED THE exact birth Of a craze to drive swift cars in eompetition is lost to memory, but from the age of about seven I filled the…

ett4 /lewd HARROW C.C. The Moss Trial used hills on the The Moss Trophy Trial used hills on the War Office ground in the Red Roads area—which might be described…