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5-point lead among light sports cars FASTER GETAWAY Standing quarter mile, 19.5 seconds. Top speed, 92 mph. These performance figures put the new Spitfire way ahead. All from the Herald…

Wolf huffs and puffs but Juniors bring house down Top Hat Festival: Donington Park The FORCE Classic Grand Prix Car races pitched Formula One cars against F5000s, and the opening…

SPORTING CARS ON TEST—continued. pinion. The drive from the gear box to the rear axle is by an exposed ca.rdan shaft with Hardy fabric couplings at either end. On the…

Troubled racing car manufacturer Lola is unlikely to be bought out of administration this summer. The administrators revealed in mid-July that the composites arm of the company was on the…

Press of Canvas Question — Name the first motor racing artist that comes into your head. chances are that most of you reading that last sentence immediately said to yourself…

Sir, In your February issue you printed a letter about the late Henry Williamson's Alvis Silver Eagle mentioned in "A Solitary War". This book is not the last of the…

Sir, I find it difficult to believe that your correspondent Mr Cracknell (July 1999) has taken four decades to realise that Denis Jenkinson was an enthusiast rather than an objective…

Sir, As the author of Racing the Silver Arrows I wish I could help David Jones (September letters) regarding the 1939 European Championship, but I can't add very much. I…

Sportsmen in general will regret the loss of a good friend to motor racing by the death of Capt. J. M. Toop, who was killed whilst driving a Peugeot at…

Geoffrey Taylor ambitiously handcrafted virtually every part of his Alta cars — including the supercharged twin-overhead-cam four-cylinder engines — in Tolworth, Surrey. His firm progressed from small-volume sportscars to a…

Fast and dangerous, the final version of the Czech circuit was an eye-opener in many ways for the tin-top stars of the eighties, as Gary Watkins discovers Every motorsport-mad schoolboy…

There has been a steady and considerable demand for the loan of instruction books from the Library, and obviously this is a useful service. But we have a few comments…