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Letter of the month So much for commitment... Sir, I was amused to read in your Jim Clark tribute the section on the Lotus 30/40 and your assertion that Colin…

In an event the size of the Mille Miglia it is not possible to mention every praiseworthy effort, but one that was particularly good was that of the Belgian driver…

People can be as wise as they like about boring concentration runs (true), high costs (true), repetition of route (true) and the like, but when it comes to the crunch…

Three-time Targa Florio winner Nino Vaccarella, Sicily's hem, presided over the first revival event in October, and delighted fans when he climbed aboard Harald Mergard's Ferrari 512S, which Mario Andretti…

On January 12, full details of the Classic Marathon, scheduled for June 18-26 1988, will be announced in London by the event organisers and sponsors. Some people thought that this…

Guy Fawkes Day November 5th is the day when much money goes up in smoke and some people burn their fingers. This year it is the day of Sotheby's first…

Capt. Malcolm Campbell on the future of Speed and Motor Racing. (In an Interview). IT is rather difficult at this stage in motoring history to give any definite views on…

Bonneville and the Black Rock Desert; before Daytona Beach or Pendine Sands in Wales, the Land Speed Record belonged to an exclusive turn-of-the-century holiday resort — Ormond Beach, Florida. Ormond…

Here is the promised account of an adventurous journey under war-time conditions in an early " 2/50" Alvis, undertaken by F/Lt. Archer, R.A.F. There appeared in the June issue of…

Crystal Palace,(May 30th) Formula Two-Two Heats The domination of Formula Two races by the works Brabham-Hondas is becoming a rule to which there are few exceptions. With a joint fastest…

Take out of the equation those pedal-to-metal laps around the old eight-mile Spa-Francorchamps or the pre-Hella Licht-S Osterreichring, and a Porsche 917 couldn't live with a Formula 1 car in…

Villiers Supercharge  Sir,  I have followed the in-depth articles on the TT Vauxhalls with great interest and would like to make some comments on the Villiers Supercharge after Raymond Mays…