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Challenging one-time GP venue Dijon-Prenois hosted a packed historic weekend in which Fredy Kumschick dominated the final FIA Thoroughbred GP Car Championship round in his Williams FW07C. An emphatic victory…

After Stirling Moss had won the 1961 Oulton Park Gold Cup race with the Ferguson P99 Four-wheel-drive car, in a most convincing manner, it looked as though the racing world…

I was hanging out of a sidecar at the time, riding as passenger to World Champion Eric Oliver in 1948, when W.B. Said "While you are there, you might like…

The Last Up Alms Hill. Alms Hill, that well known motor-car and motor-cycle competition hill, which rises 1,000 feet from foot to crest and has a gradient of one in…

McLaren M16 We called on McLaren Racing in the depths of an industrial estate at Colnbrook, almost in line with one of the main runways of London's Heathrow airport, and…

Last month the STD register celebrated its first meeting of 50 years ago, organized then by the late Mrs WB. This time, at the same venue on the Hog's Back…

Coventry's endurance racer broke new ground, both in structure and aerodynamic. Keith Howard talks tot the man who developed a legendDown the decades numerous cars have claimed to draw inspiration…

At Caterham Calling in to see Marcus Chambers at Caterham the other day, we found that L.M.B. Ltd. have an excellent man on their staff, in the person of Culling,…

Maserati built the best-handling sports-racers of the mid-1950s and the most powerful. But it was unable to combine both elements, as Paul Fearnley finds out. The woodland creatures scurry, bolt…

Air mail Sir, I was interested to read about Trossi driving the Maserati 8 CTF 1938 No. 3031. Trossi was a keen and capable pilot and amongst other aeroplanes owned…

THE GRAND PRIX DE LA MARNE ACERTAIN amount of consternation was caused a short time before the Marne Grand Prix owing to an announcement in a French contemporary that there…

The sporting motorist is very conscious of the efficiency of the hemispherical combustion chamber and must derive satisfaction from the thought that this disposition of overhead poppet valves, operated with…