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The Observer Backs The Pedestrians' Association Motorists who number (should we now write "used to number"?) The Observer amongst their Sunday reading will not have failed to notice that this…

Anyone who saw the demonstration runs last year by Dante Duce and Mickey Thompson with their sling-shot dragsters will not forget "the sound and the fury" of this exciting form…

Sir, I found your article on Freddie Dixon most interesting and it jogged my memory in several ways. Unfortunately you missed a couple of points regarding the TT races. In…

Sir, With reference to the letter from J. Grottick of Stuttgart, I would not be at all surprised to hear that many of the 40 days in the six-month period…

Dear reader, I was hoping to be at the first Grand Prix in the year 2000, which is only seven years away, but it is beginning to look rather unlikely.…

Home-built specials were the lifeblood of British Motorsport before WWII and the genesis of a Formula One revolution after it. This latecomer to their ranks has been winning for almost…

Once again the final race in the World Championship series of Formula One events took place at East London on the warm sunny South East coast of Africa. However, unlike…

This is bound to upset some of the faithful, but I’m afraid I never quite ‘got’ the Gilles Villeneuve ‘thing’. You know, the adulation which dripped from every line of…

Hillclimbs will play an increasingly significant role in the 2004 VSCC schedule, with events planned at five of the top venues in Britain. The Prescott weekend, which drew record crowds…

Sir, I am compiling a competition history of three Sussex and one Kent hill climb courses, Bodiam, Ditcham, Firle, and Valence. If any reader can supply copies of reports on…

The 1982 Monaco GP is not remembered for a thrilling battle, or one particular drive. It claims a place in the history books thanks to the extraordinary happenings of the…

The new Silver Arrows era began officially when the former BAR, Honda and Brawn team was rebranded as Mercedes GP Petronas in Stuttgart on January 25. A week later in…