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The Dutch Grand Prix is usually held in May and has been the first or second event in the World Drivers' Championship for several seasons, but this year it was moved…

TESTING ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT BRITISH RACING DRIVERS' CLUB VISITS THE LUCAS FACTORY AT BIRMINGHAM ELI.criacAL equipment plays a big part in the working of any car. Even on a racing-car, with…

Sir, In reply to Mr. Verner, I regard "real motoring" as going from place to place in a motor car. The qualities of roadholding, cornering, braking and high cruising speed…

Back to the Drawing Board If Ford of Britain have suffered a worse period for press comment and wounded sales, it has escaped our attention. There is no doubt that…

Video: HGPCA Historic Race of the Year (56 minutes, HGPCA, c/o Totnes Motor Museum, Totnes, Devon. £49.95). October's 50th anniversary of the last Grand Prix at Donington Park was marked…

In a book shop the other day, I noticed by chance a volume on the life and, for want of a better word, works of Mark Thatcher (no, please, stay…

MONT DES:MULES HILL CLIMB BRITISH cars showed up well against their continental rivals at the Mont des Mules hill climb, the last ur the eirents in connection with the Monte…

Ambitious plans to bring competitive motor sport back to the Tatts Corner section of the former Grand Prix circuit at Aintree had to be abandoned when the speed event organised…

LIGHT BLUES WIN AGAIN P. F. JUCKER (CAMBRIDCE) BREAKS THE COURSE RECORD AT SYSTON PARK WITH HIS ALTA Once again Cambridge proved invincible in the Inter-Varsity Speed Trials, held on…

Virtuoso The man from Alfa, he say "Fun, or what?" In extolling the virtues of the new Alfa Romeo 75 Cloverleaf Mr Alfa did confess to me that a press-on…

N.B.—Opinions expressed are those of our Correspondents and MOTOR SPORT does not necessarily associate itself with them.—Ed. Rolls-Royce in a rut Sir, The Mercedes Benz may be the best car…

PART II : 1912-1950 AFTER Zuccarelli's victory in 1910, the Hispano-Suiza team was absent from the Coupe de l'Auto in 1911. The cause of this absence was primarily connected with…