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Targa Florio Sicily looks beautiful, but it's a bit quiet, isn't it? Not this month, as the centenary of the Targa Florio, one of the world's most celebrated races, shatters…

With Shell and Motor Sport backing again Following a successful first year in which Shell and Motor Sport magazine combined to run a British Championship for Formula Three cars it…

Sir, I was most interested to read an account of the Itala after it left my possession, and I thought you might be interested to hear a little more detail…

"Rolls-Royce in America" by John Webb de Campi. 256 pp. 10 in. x 7¼ in. (Dalton Watson Limited, 78, Wardour Street, London, W1V 4AN. £9.50) Never has one make of…

We have received from a correspondent  --  which is how Motor Sport  hears of much in the motoring firmament that merits exposure and discussion  --  a folder published by the…

Veteran cars are frequently encountered these days in the showroom windows of the more enlightened motor dealers, a case in point being an Edwardian Horstmann which we encountered recently in…

by Patrick Greene There is an old saying that no man is a hero to his valet and this might apply equally, or more so, to his racing mechanic. However,…

  The B.R.D.C. successfully put on a very full day's racing at Silverstone, but unfortunately a gloom had been cast over the meeting by the fatal accident to Harry Schell who, in…

Former F1 racers Mark Blundell, Johnny Herbert and David Brabham will be on the driving strength when Bentley adds the Sebring 12 Hours to its Le Mans build-up programme. By…

The present owner of the low-chassis S-type 4.5-litre Invicta which the late Bugatti exponent Lindsay Eccles owned until 1947, and who has had the car for the last 30 years,…

You already know how versatile 'Quick Vic' Elford is: rallies, sports cars, F1, Can-Am, rallycross — a list garlanded with laurels. He turns a neat phrase, too: you'll be gripped…

"SMUGGLER'S COME-BACK." THE FIRST STORY TO BE SELECTED IN OUR JOHNSON MOTOR COMPETITION. FIFTY years ago he was pilot for the sailing vessels out of Kenmare, and he was eighty.…