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BMW'S potent M3 SMG coupe has borrowed technology from the racetrack to let you sample the benefits of a sequential transmission. But, as Matthew Franey found out, it takes some…

Reading Bill Boddy's article on the Birkin Bentley (September) brought back some childhood memories. The headmaster of my junior school, Blakesley House in Worcester Park, was a keen motorist and…

One of the most attractive and interest-holding features of International rallying is its variety, or, to be more exact, its extremes. One month competitors and their mechanics and various other…

No one is likely to set off for Baghdad at the present time, unless in an attempt to release hostages held by Saddam Hussein. Back in the 1930s it was…

By Air Commodore H. V. Rowley I always read this feature of Motor Sport with interest tinged with envy. For most of the authors seem to be blessed with enough…

Spa-Francorchamps. With Audi. For the 24 hours. It doesn't get a lot better. There is something so exciting about driving down to the Ardennes in the days leading up to…

N.B. —Opinions expressed are those of our Correspondents and "Motor Sport" does not necessarily associate itself with them.— Ed.

Wanted—A Rear,Macing Car. IT has struck me that this country is wasting a lot of very good money on projects that are not worth the trouble—in particular the Land Speed…

Dunlop Mac ONE OF I HE HARDEST-WORKED PERSONALITIES AT Brooklands must have been Dunlop Mac — David MacDonald, the head fitter of tyres for the racing fraternity. A cheerful, balding,…

Equipes et pilotes Only a provisional list of Le Mans entries, without any confirmed drivers, was available at the time of going to press, and some of the race numbers…

In connection with the Madresfield speed-trials article in the November 1985 issue, David Sewell confirms my impression that, in pre-war days, the course was from the road towards the mansion…

British Salmson Sir, I was very pleased to see reference to British Salmson cars in the correspondence of your Nov./Dec. issues and thought you might be interested in the enclosed…