Articles from the archive

Silverstone return.—Jackie Stewart returned to Silverstone for the first time in two years and scored a very convincing victory in the International Trophy meeting for Team Tyrrell. Here he has…

WE WANT YOUR OPINION ABOUT THIS In spite of a good deal of talking and writing, nothing has yet been done about building a team of racing-cars to uphold Britain's…

Le Mans set for close battle Audi and Peugeot were evenly matched at the Le Mans Test Day at the end of April. Eight-time Le Mans winner Tom Kristensen edged…

One thing that little Mr Ecclestone and his Formula One Constructors Association has brought into the world of Grand Prix racing is collective organisation and we recently witnessed a prime…

Sir, I am writing to ask if you can obtain for me any information re Rolls-Royce and Bentley Owner Drivers Club. 'The Coach House, Whistlers Wood, The Ridge, Woldingham, Surrey,…

"Autocourse-1973-74." Edited by Mike Kettlewell. 199 pp. (Hayinarket Publishing Ltd., Craven House, 34, Fouberes Place, London, W1A 2HG. £4.25.) The Autocourse record of 1973 motor racing comes in the well-liked…

When the sad passing of our Founder Editor Bill Boddy MBE was announced on the Motor Sport website, the response was both immediate and overwhelming. So this month, instead of…

Pomeroy would probably have smiled. At the eponymous Trophy meeting at Silverstone in late February, there was the expected wide variety of machinery stretching almost from the Boer War to…

Sir, Reading so often in your journal of the difficulties and delays which your readers suffer in attempting to obtain from car manufacturers replacement parts and information I must, after…

Michael Schumacher didn't have to wait until the chequered flag fell at Suzuka to be heralded around the world by various media — some well-informed, some less so — as the…

Unkind people may say that the Great British Public were especially well catered for at the London Zoological Gardens on June 27th, in that they had not only the animals…

We have recently made a test of the latest Alta aluminium cylinder head on an Austin Seven. The head, which increases the compression-ratio of a standard engine from 5.0-to-1 to…