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West Essex C.C. Sprint Meeting (April 3rd) More than 100 entries arrived for this meeting on Wormingford Airfield. Cars were run in pairs on the slightly rising course and some…

Le Mans Outrage! Sir, I have read MOTOR SPORT for the last twenty three years, but never before have I felt so incensed that I felt the need to write…

"They were the men who put me on the race track, and on whom I depended every time. Rob Widdows spoke to the Tyrrell faithful about our happy days racing…

Legendary Morgan racer Chris Lawrence died in August, aged 78. The link with Malvern began in 1952 when his mother bought him a three-wheeler. He began hillclimbing this but found…

WHEN ALFA ROMEO announced their new six cylinder saloon in Italy early in 1979, a right-hand-drive version for the British market was promised for the Autumn that year. J.W., who went…

* Two sections of the Isle of Man’s TT course will feature in the 2008 Manx Classic, where a range of classic cars will compete in three hillclimbs on closed…

For some reason best known to themselves, the FIA broke one of their own rules when they sanctioned the holding of the Dutch Grand Prix just one week after the…

On the Road with products from Ford and B.M.C. Exploring Pre-War Trials' Routes in the Latest Cortina-Lotus and a 1,275-c.c. Austin-Healey Sprite IAIPASSABLE.—The approach to Cusop Dingle Hill, used in…

The house at Gwernyfed Park, Glasbury, near Brecon, where Commander Glen Kidston, RN, who served in submarines, was brought up, and where he presumably tuned the motorcycles, ranging from four-cylinder…

I am, Yours, etc.. Swanley. G. W. CLARK. [We believe the notice referred to originated in America. It does not necessarily imply a dislike of sports cars, for it can…

Sir, Like a voice crying in the wilderness may I express what is perhaps in the minds of tens of thousands of car racing lovers: the desolation felt at the…

Bette Hill, mother of Formula One World Champion Damon, and widow of 1962 and 1968 title holder Graham, has opened the new Pilbeam Racing Designs factory at Bourne. The Lincolnshire…