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Cotton on... The future of Group C Any motor racing formula needs good management and stability of regulations in order to flourish, and at the present time the World Sports-Prototype…

The 1956 Silverstone May Meeting saw an on-track tussle end in a costly Jaguar/Aston Martin pile-up So what’s it worth then? This must be the most asked question whenever Joe…

By Jackie Stewart I first met him when he stopped at my father's garage. I was about 19. He was driving a TR2 or 3 — I can't remember which…

BRIEF SPECIFICATION Engine ,• Eight cylinders. Two blocks of four cylinders at 90 degrees. Bore 78 mm., stroke 95 mm., capacity 3,630 c.c. R.A.C. rating 30.01 h.p. Side valves. Double…

(Nearly) forty years on, when afar and asunder... We at Motor Sport are flattered to learn, from the BRDC Bulletin, that Innes Ireland, the new BRDC President "has very fond…

old: in the1930s Max Miller had a Standard Swallow, 'Wee' Georgie Wood a 15.7hp Crossley, Binnie Hale a six-cylinder Standard, Elsie Randolph of the Co-Optimists a Swift Ten, and film…

THE REVISED MULTI-UNION IT is typical of Chris Staniland's thorough approach to motor-racing that the Multi-Union should make a sensational appearance and then be laid up at once for further…

In the face of looming austerity at least some manufacturers announced new cars in the months before Earls Court Since new car announcements are no longer saved up as eve-of-Motor…

Sir, "Still an Owner" is sadly adrift over VW spares prices. Shock absorbers are not, as he believes, £8 each. In the pre-1951 models German-made front shockers are under £5…

Sir, The Editor does seem to have a happy knack of putting cats amongst pigeons. First VW versus The Rest, now Rolls-Royce versus Mercedes-Benz. I sometimes feel that his cheek…

It may be noticed that every oil company advises the motorist to empty his engine sump fairly frequently and refill with fresh oil—say, every 1,000 miles during a car's first…

Original Ferrari V8 by Keith Bluebell by Bay View Books, £19.95, ISBN: 1 870979 78 8 This is a book seemingly stuck with an identity crisis. Read the introduction and…