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A Doctor's Cars Sir, Recently my mother, aged 88, died and I had occasion to sort through numerous old papers. Amongst these I found an account of a motor tour…

— A very good race            Zandvoort, August 31st  AFTER the FOCA bosses had managed to raise the price of their "Circus" this year, the promoters of…

Graham Hill and Roy Salvadori sent the new E-type Jaguars off to a good racing start by taking the first and third places in the Oulton Park Trophy for G.T.…

November's Morocco Rally, the third since its revival in 1985 after a gap of nine years, looked set to be a vast improvement on the first two, which suffered from…

A visit to Maserati and De Tomaso, newly-blooded brothers For the motoring journalists sitting around a boardroom table in the eighteenth century grandeur of the Canalgrande Hotel in Modena, it…

McLaren Cars Sales Director David Clarke intends to run his 1949 Norm Olson Special Indy car at Goodwood's Festival of Speed. The plan was hatched after Clarke solved the gearbox…

The ex-Whitney Straight/Prince Bira Maserati 8CM chassis 3011 will race in Britain for the first time in over 20 years at the Goodwood Revival Meeting in September. Chris Jaques, who…

The Federation Internationale des Vottures Anciennes Rally brought to Harrogate in Yorkshire a most impressive assembly of pre-war cars. It was the first of these International events to be held…

Dealing with the pain Rostrum or hospital!” The bike racer’s on-the-grid battle cry is only half a joke. Motorcycle racing is dangerous, everyone knows that. Just ask Jorge Lorenzo, Fiat…

Sir, I cannot help agreeing with Mr. Jenkinson in wishing for a go-ahead on the Channel Tunnel project. Last year I took my Jaguar XK140 across to the continent, and…

Sir, I have read your articles on ways to reduce the cost of Formula One racing cars, and I wonder if you have missed a point? You ask that certain…

ANY FACILITIES ? Fred Craner's great Grand Prix last October has stirred many Englishmen and we anticipate a widespread desire to spectate at Formula races. Air travel constitutes the most…