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RACING IN THE RAIN ALFA-CORSE WIN THE BELGIAN "TWENTY-FOUR." TORRENTIAL RAIN CAUSES SEVERAL ACCIDENTS IN accordance with their established practice of holding races for Grand Prix cars and Sports-Cars in…

The facilities for private aircraft owners at the London Air Park, Hanworth, have now been extended to include lock-up hangars, a regular service of inspection and maintenance, workshops for overhaul…

Usually the themes within these pages are planned. Some evolve, however. And others, just occasionally, appear right out of the blue. Ostensibly, as you might have already guessed, this is…

WALK-OVER FOR TALBOT AND RILEY AT MONTLIARY ONE-SIDED VICTORIES IN FRENCH GRAND PRIX AND COUPE DE LA COMMISSION SPORTIVE The efforts of the A.C.F. to make the French Grand Prix…

Versatile racer David Hobbs, the 50th anniversary of the US GP, and the day Indy came to Daytona will all be celebrated at this year’s Amelia Island Concours We’ve all…

THE GREAT TREK TO EDINBURGH BY A COMPETITOR. THE London to Edinburgh Reliability Trial, which is usually one of the most popular trials organised by the Motor Cyling Club, was…

Last year I was able to assess the all-round excellence of the Mercedes-Benz 220SE on the roads of Europe and last month I was able to spend an all-too-brief week-end motoring…

GOOD WEATHER FOR THE COLMORE TROPHY FOR the first time the Colmore Trophy Trial this year was run as a completely separate event from the Colmore Cup Trial for motor-cycles.…

Battling against the advance of an aerodynamically-styled opposition on its home market, GM is searching every technical avenue for a more profitable future. One of the weapons in that fight…

We are an anonymous lot on Motor Sport, known mostly only by our initials. But it was good to see ML back again, with his piece last month, although I…

What was the greatest moment in sports car racing? Some might well say Pedro Rodríguez’s win in the ’71 Österreichring 1000Km was unassailable for its sheer spectacle, other’s that the…

Schnitzer and BMW. The two words are pretty well synonymous. Under the shrewd direction of Karl 'Charly' Lamm, Schnitzer-prepared BMWs have been winning top-level international touring car races for years,…