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‘Spark of Genius’ banner unites ingenuity and talent at 2007 event Brooklands and Bonneville will be central themes at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on June 22-24. It’s 100 years…

Last Month in our article on historic racing we suggested that some of the cars taking part had rather dubious ancestry or little of the original car now left. The…

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Where have all the air-cooled cars gone? In this day and age, with very reliable anti-freeze and cooling systems that do not admit of boiling, no need for it perhaps.…

THE SPEI-4:D SIX BI-4.TLEY EVER since the name of Bentley first became associated with road racing one success after another has fallen to this maique and the old cry that…

Paul Fearnley, Editor Tony Vandervell would be pleased: three times already Ron Dennis's McLaren has beaten those 'bloody red cars' in 2003. The founder of the Vanwall team was, in…

To add variety to the motoring round, I like to attend one Traction-Engine Rally and an Air Display every year. This time it was the Steam Rally of the Ross-on-Wye…

Sir, Mr. Robin N. Thomas refers to our advice to customers to inform our Commissionaire if they have left their car other than at a parking meter and infers there…

Louis Klemantaski, the charismatic motor racing photographer, has died aged 89. He discovered at Brooklands in the 1920s that he was no racing driver but could wield a camera, and…

Archie Scott-Brown Drives Brilliantly to Win Unlimited Sports-Car Race at 75.50 m.p.h. And so to the Crystal Palace on Whit Monday, June 10th, for a further programme of motor racing…

AN ATTRACTIVE "HORNET" SPECIAL WHEN the Wolseley Hornet" was first introduced it was not anticipated that it would enter the ,sports car category. The fact, however, that its little six-cylinder…

Jody Scheckter celebrated the 25th anniversary of his Formula One world championship at Kyalami recently by demonstrating one of the Ferrari T4s he drove to the title in 1979 (below).…