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For the first time in its 58-year history, the Castle Combe circuit will host a two-day historic racing festival in 2008 when the weekend of August 2/3 is turned over…

John Quenby, currently retiring as MSA Chief Executive, raced Duncan Rabagliati's Alexis HF1 Formula Junior at Mallory Park recently. He has a similar car of his own currently being prepared…

ALTHOUGH the war has brought motor racing to a standstill, its political importance is such that, apart altogether from the sentiments of the enthusiast, it should be encouraged with all…

Jochen Rindt’s last lap at the 1970 Monaco Grand Prix was an obvious candidate for our Lap of the Gods series. The way Rindt stood the ageing Lotus 49 on…

IN RETREAT IN WHICH WE MEET A ONE-TIME BROOKLANDS DRIVER, AND INSPECT HIS COMFORTABLE HOME AFLOAT 4.STROLLING along the quay at a Devonshire fishing port, I ran across an old…

Sir, I was interested in your reminiscences of the R-R Chauffeur's school, but surely the remark about putting a coin under the extra air valve is wrong. I do not…

Another First World War Diary APART from the RFC Diaries left by "X", see page 1863, some letters written to her family by a girl of 18 while she was…

Sir, The anecdote related by Bill Boddy in the August issue concerning Auto Union's possible use of dummy exhaust stubs in an attempt to trick Mercedes into believing they were…

Sir, Really, this nonsense apropos the so-Called shortage of Morgans must be exposed. One can only assume that this "myth" is being perpetrated by a consortium of Morgan agents. I…

NEWS FROM THE U.S.A. By Our American Correspondent T. MERIWETHER-SMITH. An American Road Race? Grand Prix road race will race return to the United States on June 24th of this…

A FOUR TO THE FORE 90 M.P.H. WITH A PRIVATELY OWNED 16 H.P. RILEY IN THE WET AT BROOKLANDS AMONGST sporting enthusiasts a four-cylinder engine is nearly always popular. There…

HSCC Historic Racing Saloon Championship Huge grids and some glorious David-and-Goliath racing typified a stupendous season for the HSCC/Historic Racing Saloon Register series. Allowing rather more technical freedom than the…