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One of the leading national drivers of the 1970s has died after a short illness, aged 83. The Londoner first raced in the ’50s and later drove for the works…

For those of us who live largely in the past it is pleasing when interesting facets from years long ago turn up. Thus I drove to a well known town…

John Barnard tells us in this issue that he “probably couldn’t operate in today’s Formula 1”. The days of the maverick visionaries such as Barnard, Gordon Murray and Gérard Ducarouge…

A Day at the Castrol Laboratories Oil is oil no matter from whose hole in the ground it gushes —at least, so think the majority of people whose closest connection…

Sir, I have followed with considerable interest —and amusement—the correspondence of late concerning collectors' model vehicles. As I originated this type of model in the Sixties and have watched the…

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…