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New Zealand and Argentina Because manufacturers' rally teams are concentrated in Europe, the non-European qualifiers of the World Rally Championship consume a sizeable chunk of their annual budgets, and each…

Breadline Motoring THE latter end of the great slump found me occupying a mouldering and remote farmhouse, unemployed, and owner of one " 14/40 " Sunbeam and one slightly decayed…

Earlier this year some correspondence was published in "Vintage Postbag" about Hodgson cars. This led to the discovery that Mr. Harry Hodgson, their creator, is living at Hailsham. So one…

Audi’s new R15 turbo-diesel prototype will race just twice in 2009 following news that the German manufacturer has withdrawn from the Le Mans series in both America and Europe. Audi…

The Leinster Trophy (July 9th)-Dunboyne-193 Kilometres The annual Irish race over the road circuit outside Dublin was once again sponsored by the Martell Brandy concern, and as always proved an…

Final Triumph for Matra Kyalami, November 9th: The loss of Chrysler (Simca) sponsorship could result in a seriously curtailed programme next year for the Matra team, but they finished the…

Sir, I much enjoyed The Story of Diva (Motor Sport, April 1987) since Don Sim (and Yimkin) were responsible for the first Mini that I raced in 1961. I well remember arriving…

"The Legendary Hispano Suiza" by Johnnie Green. 235 pp. 10 in. X 7 1/2in. (Dalton Watson Ltd, 76, trardour Street. London, WAV 4AN. £7.50.) This is a really magnificent book, in…

The day after the Turkish Grand Prix Lewis Hamilton tried a different kind of racing car on Mercedes-Benz’s Stuttgart-Unterturkheim test track. To mark the 75th anniversary of its great ‘Silver…

THE DIRTY WORK THE French sporting paper " L' Auto " recently published a most interesting series of articles dealing with the mechanics of various well known racing drivers. The…

A review of their most successful season In spite of much comment, Mr. G. A. Vandervell refused to bring his 1958 team to the starting line until the first of…

Motor Sport visits the Largest Privately-Owned British Car Manufacturer, at whose Staffordshire Factories the Revised Scimitar GTE is now in Production. With the many take-over bids that culminated in British…