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Around 50 crews, including some from across mainland Europe, will tackle the annual Land’s End to John O’Groats Reliability Trial. ‘Le-Jog’ will start from Land’s End on Saturday December 6,…

Schumacher wraps up the drivers' title for himself, and the constructors crown for Benetton; Hill wins for the first time since Hungary, but a serious accident to Mika Hakkinen means…

Twelve years after it lost out to ITV, the BBC has won back the contract to screen F1. That was the easy part – now it has to win over…

Gilles:  Epic talent  -- our correspondent this month was also our correspondent when Gilles first showed his talent. Sir, I thoroughly enjoyed the 'Year Zero' feature on Gilles Villeneuve (October issue),…

Never a dull moment The motoring and motorsporting scene is never dull, which is as well, for this can be libellous word to use these days. But at present the…

It is quite incredible how much support the annual November pilgrimage from Hyde Park to Brighton continues to have, as veteran cars celebrate the original Emancipation Day journey of 1898,…

THE JUNIOR CAR CLUB'S DOUBLE TWELVE HOUR RACE. ALFA ROMEO DRIVEN BY G. RAMPONI WINS FROM BENTLEY. THE Junior Car Club who conceived the idea of organising a British twenty-four…

It seems hard to believe that Tony Rolt could be old enough to have raced at Donington, but the fact remains that, at the relatively tender age of twenty-one he…

We hear Sir Clive Edwards's R-type M.G. Midget, with a twin o.h.c. Pomeroy-McEvoy cylinder head of the type described very fully in Motor Sport for January, 1941, has recently changed…

Racer and road-car compared When the Jaguar XJS was announced in 1975, there was some disappointment amongst aficionados of the make about the character of the car. It was seen…

JACK AND JILL WENT UP A HILL SUCCESSFUL FOUR-CORNERED EVENT WON BY THE CAMBRIDGE VETERANS, WITH CAMBRIDGE RESIDENTS SECOND, THE " JELLS " THIRD, AND OXFORD A POOR LAST. THE…

The BRDC Chairman tackles Le Mans in a GT40 and Isle of Man in an Escort — in a week How did the Le Mans Classic go? Very well. The…