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Continental correspondence READING OTHER PEOPLE'S letters can be interesting, especially if they are from long ago, and about motorsport. This applies particularly to that intensely exciting pre-WWII period when the…

Lauda central to Mercedes shake-up The poaching of Lewis Hamilton by Mercedes was a huge coup for Ross Brawn and his men, and it ensures that the team will be…

It's called an Eagle-Weslake T1G, completed just one full season of competition and is perhaps the most beautiful Grand Prix car ever built. From the curl of its exhausts to…

VETERAN CARS :Sir, It is very heartening in these days of .chromium plated "pansy wagons" to find any support for motors of that stark era when owners were expected and…

Today impecunious young enthusiasts buy shot Minis and have their fun via Issigonis's front-wheel-drive. When I was a young man in the early 1930s one looked for an old cyclecar,…

LAUNCHING THE NEW BENTLEY. THE announcement of the new 3.; litre Bentley was made under the most pleasant conditions during the course of a luncheon given in its honour at…

IndyCar owner Jim Hall's recruitment of Gil de Ferran has furrowed a few American brows, but it's a move which makes sense from all sides No doubt Gil de Ferran's…

American racing driver Augie Pabst owns the 41/2-litre Bentley with which the Hon Mrs Victor Bruce took the 24-hour record at Montlhery in 1929.

A former racing journalist, this 30-year-old was killed during the race morning practice session before the opening round of the IRL IndyCar Series at the Homestead oval near Miami. Paul…

Driving the Latest Cortina-Lotus and the new V6 Zephyr WHEN MOTOR SPORT road-tested the Ford Cortina-Lotus in its original form, reporting on it in the issue for January, 1964, we…

Sir, Good to see Nigel Roebuck choose McLaren's Jo Ramirez as one of his motor racing legends'. It's all too easy to fall into the trap of perpetuating F1's cult…

BOOKS. AUSTIN TWELVE, The Book of the, A guide for ownerdrivers. By Burgess Garbutt, with special articles by Richard Twelvetrees, and sketches by H. M. Bateman. Fully illustrated, cloth gilt…