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Pedro Romero (Cadillac/Allard) won the 50-mile Interlagos, Sports Car Race on January 12th in 45 min 47.9 sec. Francisco Azevedo (Maserati) was 2nd.      

SOME ANZANI " GEN." We have been loaned, by Cur. B. W. Pollard, a catalogue issued by the British Anzani Engineering Co., Ltd., in about 1928. Some interesting data relating…

Car people meeting at a nice pub goes back to the dawn of motoring. Despite breathalysers, it still happens today You can't stop people having fun with cars. During WWII,…

If you can’t say something nice… Sir, Here we go again… We get a sporting hero, something akin to hen’s teeth in these islands, and what do we do? Denigrate…

Modern Times That the first Bahrain Grand Prix happened at all was an astonishing achievement of which Formula One can be proud. So can everyone else involved in the miracle…

Nurburgring Natters Before the start it was clear that the works Maseratis were going to refuel for the tanks were not full, indicated by the curvature of the rear transverse…

A section devoted to old-car matters VSCC Driving Tests, Silverstone (December 4th) Quite why the Vintage SCC chooses to inflict driving tests at bleak Silverstone on its members in December…

Le Mans, Rouen, Reims, Clermont-Ferrand... France had another international circuit using public roads -- in this case into the 1980s.  Marcus Simmons takes a trip back into obscure F3 history…

D.S.J. endorsed my own belief when, reporting on the South African Grand Prix, he said that every Renault owner from humble R5 to V6 saloon must have thought (after seeing René…

H.R.G. Road Test Sir, May I say how much I enjoyed reading your H.R.G. road test? You refer to the "high" ratios of the H.R.G., and so indeed they are;…

Barcelona to host histories The history of the the Montjuich Park street circuit in Barcelona will be celebrated in a new historic festival to be held at the Barcelona GP…

A section devoted to old-car matters All seems well.... The outlook in the vintage/veteran world seems to be "set-fair", with races, for historic racing and sports cars being encouraged by…