Articles from the archive

We welcome letters for publication in these columns. Letters intended for publication must be written on one side of the paper only and they may be signed with a nom-de-plume,…

The dry/wet tyre farce The primary purpose of a racing car is speed. Any outside factor (the driver is inside!) that interferes with this purpose is to be deplored, whether…

We are able to announce a most interesting happening, namely, the formation, last February, of the Sports Car Club of America. The inaugural meeting took place on February 26th last, in…

It is with regret that we have to report that Mr. Reid A. Railton has died in Canada at the age of 82. Railton was closely associated with motor racing…

Personal Ideal WHEN we were very young we often used to occupy ourselves by planning either the ideal car, or the ideal stable of a given number of existing makes.…

A recent article by Arnold Davey in the excellent Lagonda Car Club Magazine threw my mind back with a jolt to schoolboy years. His article was about the Lagonda Fetes…

Former colleague Henry seems to be averaging about one book per month at the moment. The latest boils down to a brief summary of everyone who had ever started a…

To the student of automobilism there has been nothing more interesting during the past twenty years than to watch the march of progress as expressed by the increasing efficiency of…

Fragile tyres continue to breed F1 friction, why Kimi Raikkonen might make a perfect future foil for Sebastian Vettel... and fond memories of James Hunt, 20 years on Quote of…

In every sport the way of the governing body is far from being strewn with roses, and in motorcycling sport in particular many problems arise which appear almost insoluble. A…

* BOOK REVIEWS " 500-c.c. RACING," by Gregor Grant. (Fottli, 7, Milford Lane, W.C.2. 178 pp., 108.) Five-hundred-c.c. racing is becoming so rumplicated that this book has come at a…

Is this the end of the Indy 500 as we know it? The IRL’s radical qualifying proposals have led to serious threat of a boycott in 1996… Is that the…