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David Clark may have topped the Sebring Salute race at Brands Hatch two days earlier, but at Castle Combe on Easter Monday Shaun Lynn powered his GT40 to victory in…

Sir, You must be Firestone shod! Mr. H. S. Winter of the Firestone Tyre & Rubber Co., is allowed two letters in your July issue, publicising Firestone Tyres—one stating how…

Almost too close for comfort after the Morocco Rally came the Acropolis, the two week intervening period straining car-building and recceing programmes to the full. Alpine managed to get through…

The Development Directorate of Coventry's City Planning Services has produced an extremely interesting and well-contrived folder showing the location of the sites of existing buildings which were devoted to car…

SPORTING MACHINES ON TEST. THE INDIAN SCOUT. By ARNOLD RADCLYFFE. -IT is now just twenty-five years since the first Indian. motor-cycle was built ; during this period many models have…

Denny Hulme (top left) in the Texaco Marlboro McLaren which took over the lead in the last two laps. Carlos Reutemann in the latest Brabham (bottom left) with the air…

CARS IN BOOKS Regular readers of long-standing and good memory will know that I am a great admirer of almost all the works of T. H. White. " England Have…

A Battle - But Not Heated REIMS, FRANCE, July 1st. With the French Grand Prix being held at Rouen this year, the Automobile Club du Champagne stood on its own…

Sir, I liked the article by D.S.J. recalling the International Trophy Race over the years. The JCC scored a notable break-through with their handicapping via different channels, the brilliant idea…

Dr Wolfgang Ulrich, head of Audi Motorsport, took time out from his Le Mans preparations to talk to Gary Watkins about the forthcoming Peugeot challenge and the relevance of diesel…

Mr. G. Sutherland, late of Aston Martin, Ltd., has acquired the eontrolling interest in Messrs. E. D. Abbott, Ltd., the well-known coaclunakers. lie in joining the present Board, consisting of…

Did this Oldsmobile Autocrat, dubbed ‘Yellow Peril’ by its first owner, really finish a 1911 Labor Day race in flames? We’ll never know for sure… The Yellow Peril’s saga is…