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He prevailed in the most frantic F1 finish ever. He won in F2, F3, F5000, sportscars and Can-Am... Peter Gethin doesn't get the credit he deserves but he's not overly…

The sad thing is, winning Indy – the driving part of it – is out of all proportion to the fame and fortune The last time I went to the…

Siddeley Special Safari The preface to this study of motoring white-elephantitis was published last month, so I can embark without further palaver to tell of a safari I went on recently…

"The Classic Single-Seaters" by Doug Nye. I43pp. I If in. x 8 in. (Macmillan Administration (Basingstoke) Ltd., Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 2XS. £4.95). This is really a picture book to…

Reflections – F1 in crisis – but it need not have come to this – Surtees’s GP assessment still resonates today On Wednesday, December 3, I was due to attend…

Ride a Crooked Trail They used to call it the toughest rally in the world outside Africa. In a way, it still merits that description, for it still uses special…

Rather a mystery In the September issue we published details of a Thomas Special now owned by Doaglas Kay and cared for by Sgt. Easterbrook-Smith, in New Zealand. Evidence pointed to…

Sir, In the article "Rover Recap" in your January issue you made the following statement about Rover's first turbine car: "The T3 is interesting because it successfully used 4-w-d with…

Although hit by snow and ice early on, it was the final gravel stage that decided the result of the Robin Hood Historic Forest Stages, the opening round of the…

Honda is set to pitch the new generation NSX against Chrysler in the GTE class. Honda Performance Development, American Honda’s competition arm, has revealed that it will be developing the…

EYSPONT'S OWN STORY WORLD'S FASTEST DRIVER GIVES PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF HIS RECORDS AT THE SALT FLATS SINCE; his return to England in triumph from the U.S.A., the penalties of the…

History of the Monaco GP, vol 1. Menoshire, £44.95. This is a historic moment -MOTOR SPORT's first ever CD-ROM review. This first disc covers the famous race from its 1929…