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CL SE RACING IN TH ELGIAN G.P. VICTORY FOR NUVOLARI, THIS TIME ON A MASERATI, OFFICIAL BUGATTPS OF VARZI AND DREYFUS SECOND AND THIRD. THE Royal Automobile Club of Belgium…

F1 gears up for 21 races Ecclestone facing complex scheduling dilemma. By Adam Cooper Bernie Ecclestone is wrestling with the tricky job of finalising a 2014 Formula 1 calendar that…

The fourth running of the Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix is expected to be the biggest and best yet, with a longer and wider track for the event which takes place…

The Editor invites Club Secretaries to send details of their fixtures, sporting and social, for publication in these columns. These items should be sent to reach this oflice not later…

I wonder what Carlo Abarth would have made of the most recent Fiat 500 to bear his name? I loved the looks and the power of the 160bhp £16,105 Esseesse…

Non-Homologation Special Italy has always been fruitful ground both for dedicated manufacturers of sportscars and for inventive coachbuilders. A healthy interest in competition meant that there was always a new…

Of all the new drivers who came surging through to prominence on the wave of France's motor racing renaissance in the late sixties, Francois Cevert, with his film star good…

Sir, I was intrigued to read your comments about my Harry Weslake book in the current issue of Motor Sport and to learn that I may have added a little to…

World production of motor vehicles (cars and commercials) last year was: U.S.A. .. 6,900,000 Germany .. 1,688,000 Britain .. 1,674,530 France .. 1,536,133 Japan .. 990,705 Italy .. 930,000 Britain…

RACING NEWS. THE GERMAN GRAND PRIX. ANOTHER WIN FOR MERCEDES DRIVEN BY MERZ. THE German Grand Prix for Sports cars, which was run on Sunday, 17th July, was the first…

The confirmation that compulsory tyre changes are to become part of races next year, at Bernie Ecclestone's decree, saddens me. But may I be in a minority? In the past…

After Stirling Moss had won the 1961 Oulton Park Gold Cup race with the Ferguson P99 four-wheel-drive car, in a most convincing manner, it looked as though the racing world…