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Torrential October rain suggested hard going for the 103 'victims' of this tough event, dating back 59 years, with four observed sections on the Saturday and 11 on the Sunday,…

Sometimes you can’t predict what sole-survivors will sell for When extremely rare cars come up for auction, it is usually quite hard to put an estimate on them. The final…

The Cyprus Rally is not only a fine event but a critical one in the European Championship, and although Ari Vatanen (above) won the event in his Escort, Jochi Kleint…

Reg and Rosberg Sir, Just a minor correction to your article in the March issue about Dick Protheroe's E-types. The car bought and raced by Roger Mac was registered 256…

• S.T.D. REGISTER PLANS The Sunbeam-Talbot-Darracq Register has decided to postpone its rally to Tours (where Segrave stir Sunbeam won the French Grand Prix in 1923) until naxt year. in…

The 1976 F1 season remains vivid to all who lived through it, but Niki Lauda believes a Hollywood touch was necessary to make Rush relevant today Writer Simon Arron Almost…

Sir, I feel that Mr. D. Murray-Wilson (February Motor Sport) should certainly have had his plate of Birds-Nest Soup with his Ferodo Fan Belt, he certainly paid enough for it!…

"Safari Fever" by Nick Brittan. 160 pp., 81 in. x 5 1/2 in. (Motor Racing Publications) Ltd., 56, Fitzjames Avenue, Croydon, Surrey, SDD. £2.80.) This is an enthralling account of…

French Tendencies in the Early Twenties IslIA V E received from the Editor a copy of Thr! :Itdocar for October 15th, 1921, accompanied only hy a cryptic note about curing…

There are those who have dismissed the latest BMW M3 as a pale imitation of Its forebears. Surely, some mistake..? Remember the initial response to the new BMW M3? How…

A Further Announcement Last April we announced the opening of a Fund for the purpose of commemorating the great work of the late Mr. H. F. Locke-King, who built Brooklands…

The Silverstone Classic marked the return to racing of the Shadow DN1 that Graham Hill used during the 1973 season. The car had stood un-raced for 35 years until Daryl…