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Innovations Last year saw the first road race on the British mainland in over eighty years of motor racing but it was interrupted by heavy rain. This year no such…

By Eoin S. Young. 224 pp. 8 1/2 in. x 5 1/2 in. (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 11, New Fetter Lane, London, EC4. £2.) There is no-one better fitted for writing…

Police chiefs may advocate raised motorway speed limits. But not the DoT. A new glossy brochure Killing Speed and Saving Lives lists its plans to tackle excess speed. Excess speed,…

Nine months in F1 From the glorious to the ghastly, we’ve witnessed it all in a turbulent season of F1. And the repercussions are still being felt… By Rob Widdows…

New attractions alongside the usual allure of the best competition cars and renowned drivers from around the world mean that this year’s Goodwood extravaganza shouldn’t be missed Words: Robert Stride.…

It is 40 years since the lanes of Sicily last echoed to the full-blooded wail of a world championship race. A privileged spectator back then, Richard Williams recently retraced his…

In 1961 the Editor paid a visit to Ferodo's Chapel-en-le-Frith factory, and described in detail their exacting development and test procedures. Since then, the 16-acre works among the Derbyshire peaks…

London M.C. Gloucester Trial R.A.C. Trials Championship V.S.C.C. Lasham Rally Top: Championship Trial — R. W. Phillips going well in the 1954 R.A.C. Championship Trial in the well-known Le Tout.…

Clive Wood won the second Classic FF2000 round from a capacity grid at Thruxton (right). Racing his Van Diemen RF82 on home ground, the former F3 racer saw off the…

Steam cars can be said to be a law unto themselves, and those who advocate them may be interested to know that the spring issue of the magazine of the…

PLAYING " IN " THE GALLERY A REVIEW OF THE ACCESSORIES AT EARL'S COURT APPEALING TO SPORTSMEN SPORTING motorists are not, as a rule, numbere&a.mon.gst those visitors to a motor-show…

Annual outings Look at the grid for most rounds of the World Sportscar Championship, and you can count perhaps 30 Group C cars. Stand in the tribunes at the Sarthe…