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R.A.C. Rally of Great Britain January is usually the month in which this page looks back upon the R.A.C. Rally and, despite the overshadowing influence of the London-Sydney Marathon, that…

Only clubs whose secretaries furnished the necessary information prior to the 14th of the preceding month are included in this list C = Closed Event. CI = Closed Invitation Event.…

At last it is happening. Nearly a whole, frustrating decade after the CSI's meddlings sounded a virtual death-knell on international sports-car racing, this branch of our sport is beginning to…

ONE OF THE newest teams in Formula One racing is the private one of Lord Alexander Hesketh. After an initial foray in the land of Formula Three the Grand Prix…

• The traditional Le Mans Test Day will return to the calendar next season after an absence of two years. The event, cancelled for 2009 after the economic crisis hit,…

THE KING'S CUP RACE A BIG EN TRY VER ninety competitors figure in the entry list of the King's Cup Race, which takes place on Saturday next, July 5. Standard…

Super Sports performance o for four GliEll -LITRE SPORTS L295 Long, low and streamlined, it looks what it is—a top-notch super sports. Yet with all its rakish looks, this Singer…

"Understand Your Car," by H. A. Hazell, A.M.I.M.I. (Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons, Ltd., price 5s.) A new edition of this little book has recently appeared, with many new illustrations.…

Sir, It is a credit, I am sure, to your publication that you attract readers of all sorts, and also to the appeal of road sport that it can be…

Villeneuve at home Montreal, October 8th One week after the United States Grand Prix took place at Watkins Glen, the Grand Prix circus arrived to "pitch tent" in the new…

We Hear Competition Cars, Ltd., have in their possession a what sounds like the old "flat-iron" Thomas-Special which at one time took diesel records. It now has the straight-eight engine…

Sir, NA hen petrol rationing came into force I realised that I should have to do something about it. My car is a 1933 Singer Nine sports 4-seater fitted with…