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Oulton Park, 9th April, 1971. The best way to win a motor race is to have a good, strong, reliable car, well prepared, properly screwed together, driven by a hard-charging…

Sir I would be extremely grateful if you would publish the following notice which in modified form has also been circulated to dealers, Scotland Yard and local stations. The notice…

Michael Schumacher becomes the first German since Jochen Mass to win a Grande Epreuve In the end it was the least experienced of the upper echelon of F1 drivers, in…

Folkestone, 10 a.m., January 25th Weather conditions were not too arduous for the Glasgow contingent, but icy surfaces caused some difficulty and fog extended for about 20 miles near Newark.…

You, the customer... The motoring year ends for some people with racing at Brands Hatch on Boxing Day, for others with the Brighton Run for veterans in November. Generally, however,…

The Austin Motor Co. has introduced a new petrol/diesel cross-country vehicle, in outline somewhat resembling the Land-Rover, which is ten years its senior. This new vehicle, called the Gipsy, features…

Peter Hackett is compiling a register and history of all PRS Formula Ford cars produced in the late 1970s and early '80s. If you have any information, call him on…

Motor racing art used to be a small, and specialised, field. Nowadays, there are enough easels in regular use to fill the grid at Le Mans. Alan Fearnley's latest oil…

USED SPORTS CARS FOR SALE (continued). BUGATTI. 2Q C.C. supercharged straight-eight BUG AT )• TI, solid roller crankshaft, new type pistons, sports 3-4-seater, with tail, specially upholstered in crocodile brown…

A glance at developments from the Formula 1 pit lane Lotus Like a passive F-Duct, Lotus’s drag reduction device stalls the rear wing above 200kph to reduce drag and boost…

A few weeks after storming the Brickyard in May, Dan Wheldon arrived for the Indycar race at the Texas Motor Speedway wearing a T-shirt announcing, 'Actually, I won the Indy 500'.…

Sir, Over the past 18 months I have read of proposals for new technical regulations for Group C racing with a sense of increasing frustration and despair. It appears that…