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Renault’s sacking of Nelson Piquet means that the Brazilian follows Sébastien Bourdais in being dropped for performance reasons in the middle of his second season. In the past a similar…

Fedden fiasco The classic Roy Fedden Trophy Trial of the Bristol MC and LCC went astray this year. The organisers decided to toughen-up the event by discarding the former route in favour of…

RAC Rally Notes Sir, With reference to the 1959 Liege-Rome-Liege Rally, your contributor seems to have been economical with the truth in order to make his point. Four, not three,…

Cecil Clutton tries FitzPatrick's famous car When I penned my recent report of a Type 57SC Bugatti for Motor Sport I thought I had certainly carried out the last road test of…

Hardly a classic Most motor races usually have some highlight which, when looking back, bring the event into perspective. The 1968 Sebring 12-hour race lacked anything at all outstanding. This…

by "CARROZZINO" BY the time you read these notes the seeond round of the World Championship will have been fought and in a very few days the third round will be taking…

The 250 M.R.C. held its second race Meeting at the pocket-handkerchief circuit on Eelmoor Mitt, in the vast open commonland flanking the Fleet-Aldershot road. Twenty entries had been received, of…

Tour de force Anyone who doubts which is the strongest team in Grand Prix racing today should have been at the French GP on July 5, and better still, at…

"The Motor Racing of Charlie Martin" Sir, I do not read all the motor papers regularly these days but I did read your story of Charlie Martin in the August…

During the three weeks since the last Grand Prix most of the teams had been very busy, either stocking up with cars and engines, or carrying out test programmes at…

The Masters racers had to contend with typical British weather at Brands For the second time in a month the British weather delivered its worst upon the Masters Racing Series.…

THE F-N RUMPUS Sir. Who is Mr. Alan K. Clerk, whose badte nipered effusion intrudes upon the correspondence columns this month ? Let him forthwith be placed at the wheel…