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Wooden bridges, long straights, jumps, a railway crossing.., and even a pub. Tasmania's super-fast road circuit had it all. Adam Cooper takes a trip to the track that even Jim…

It was nice to see Averil Scott-Moncrieff driving her Bugatti. She was overtaken following a duel with Rathbone's Talbot 105, but the latter almost hit a wall after a long…

Ex-Villoresi Maser is back An ex-Luigi Villoresi Maserati 4CL will return to racing this season for the first time in decades after an extensive restoration for owner Rodney Smith. Chassis…

50 years young This issue of Motor Sport marks the fiftieth anniversary of the journal's introduction, for it was started, as The Brooklands Gazette, in July 1924. We feel that…

Once again the VSCC's curtain-closer was the Richard Seaman Trophies meeting at Donington Park, where conditions ranged from damp to soaking; but the afternoon's racing contrived to run during the…

The VSCC concluded a full and successful season on December 4 with its traditional driving-tests at Enstone airfield near Chipping Norton. It was the occasion of a needle-match between Ben…

"See my agent" is fast becoming the catch-phrase in the motoring world as driver after driver is taking a long, hard look at exploiting his goods and services in the…

Schumacher was beaten to pole position by a combination of the weather and Rubens Barrichello, but on race day he was in a class of his own... Until they measured…

Sir, My Porsche is quite rightly described as a rear-engined car. By the same token a front-engined car would be one in which the engine lies ahead of the front…

Sir, These vehicles were made by Messrs. Belhaven Ltd., Wishaw, Lanarkshire. My grandfather, Col. R. R. Mellor, bought this firm about 1910 from Messrs. Robert Morton & Co. Ltd. (now…

The 22nd Raid Suisse-Paris, one of Europe’s biggest classic car rallies, took place over three days at the end of August. More than 60 cars lined up for the traditional…

ONE of the oldest World records in the books, for the fastest boat on salt water, has fallen after nearly 50 years. In December, Dr. Carlo Bonomi added over 20 m.p.h.…