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Monza, Italy Held on the traditional liberation day national holiday, the 1,000 kilometre sports/ prototype and GT race at Monza proved to be a complete walk-over for the Autodelta Alfa…

What the Manx Events have Taught us. Roll of Honour Senior Race: A.Bennett (Norton) Speed 61.46 m.p.h. Junior Race: Kenneth Twemlow (New Imperial) Speed 55.83 m.p.h. Lightweight Race: Edwin Twemlow…

Last year people had one major criticism about the British Formula Three Championship—there was very little British driving talent. The races were all fought out between a Brazilian, Alex Ribeiro,…

Vanwall's two-race 'substitute' of 1957 talks about a superb team and its car that was hard to like Vanwall came a bit unstuck in the middle of 1957: Brooks hurt…

The RIGHT EQUIPMENT and the RIGHT PRICES You are indeed Dressed for the Occasion in the best possible way when you obtain your equipment from us—and you save money OVERALL…

When one has been competing in rallies for some time, one develops preferences in much the same way as more vaunted reporters get to like—or dislike—Grand Prix venues. During the season,…

From France, we hear that when racing driver Edward Bret ceased to be a flying instructor at the CFS at Istres, he went to the 1929 Olympia Aero Show to…

Sir, As it's March, it must be time for Andrew Frankel's dismal grizzling about the sheer awfulness of screwing more wedge out of the long suffering readership — of course…

TURNING A NEW " LEAF " REFINEMENT WITH A SPORTING PERFORMANCE THE KEYNOTE OF THE LEA-FRANCIS RANGE WHEN once a car has won for itself the reputation of a thoroughbred,…

"HOTTING-UP" A STANDARD MODEL FOR COMPETITION WORK. (PART 1). Practical Suggestions for Increasing Car Efficiency. IF the title chosen for this article has an ungrammatical flavour, I think readers of…

THE JUNIOR RACE VELOCETTES SWEEP THE BOARD. THIS year's races both on two and four wheels have provided a remarkable series of one make grand slams, and the junior Manx…

Corgi have an unusual model in No. 259 of their Corgi Toys series, this being a Citroen DS with Henri Chapron 2+2 coupe body, having openable doors and boot and…