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VINTAGENTS AT LEWES STUART WILTON'S M.G. MAKES FASTEST TIME OF THE DAY Fitt's B.M.W. was absent, still suffering from its bending after the J.C.C. Brooklands meeting, but the big Hudson…

Sir, Referring to your write-up on the December Driving Tests at Silverstone, I would like to point out that the car driven by Mrs. Hogg, the Aston Martin International, having…

301.13 m.p.h for One Mile. 159.30 m.p.h. for One Hour HISTORIC RECORDS ESTABLISHED BY SIR MALCOLM CAMPBELL AND G. E. T. EYSTON Undoubtedly the most outstanding records of the year…

7/12 er 4/1/0V AIrrER any long race there is bound to be a considerable amount of discussion and argument about suggested alterations and improvements, and the J.C.C. Double-Twelve has given…

Lunch with Bob Bodurant at Monaco. I don't know what it is about American drivers of the '50s and '60s, but all have great powers of recall, and spice their…

Nice to encounter a Trojan tourer making its way towards Oxford, along the A40 road and to see it easily overtake a farm tractor. But one wonders why it was…

Racing cars on the road Driving a single-seater Grand Prix car on the roads of England, Scotland and Wales in full racing trim is very much against the law. It…

When I kept my appointment at the headquarters of Spirit Racing in late March, the place was nearly deserted. The team has so recently moved in that there is not…

British Touring Car Championship An inopportune engine failure at Silverstone finally put the BTCC title out of reach. There is still, however, a world title to be defended. . .…

We will start with a story that has nothing whatsoever to do with motor cars, not even old ones. It concerns, instead, very old bicycles. A Weybridge cinema offered free…

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Mille Miglia Merc in DTM German manufacturer uses saloon racer as rolling billboard to promote its heritage Mercedes-Benz is promoting its newly opened museum on the German Touring Championship car…