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Mercedes-Benz's tribute to Dick Seaman, in which John Surtees demonstrated a W154 Grand Prix car and John Watson and Mario Haberfeld drove the 1994 Indy 500-winning Penske PC23 and F1…

THE NEW WORLD'S AIR RECORD. ON April 10th the culmination of much research work on the part of the Italian High Speed Flight received its reward when Warrant Officer Age…

Where's Lothar? Sir, Loved the Can-Am retrospective. Perfect pictures, wonderful words. But why no mention of Lothar Motschenbacher? He was a US privateer who often troubled the front-runners in a…

Any book on Motors and Motoring reviewed or advertised in Motor Sport available by return post. Overseas orders welcome, no extra postage. Comprehensive Catalogue available, free on request. The following…

Fiat's wonderful Centro Storico museum in Turin contains an example of every product it has made, from ships, tractors, trams, railway locomotive and stock, aeroplanes, aero-engines to racing and ordinary…

Just after we had been confronted the other day by Stirling Moss recommending Shell X-100 oil from a London Transport bus, we glanced to the left and saw a fine…

First challenge for McLaren's latest signing Sergio Pérez - balancing jet lag and press grillings By Ed Foster This is unusual for a McLaren driver: Sergio Perez is running late.…

Whilst World Championship devotees were busying themselves in Australia (see following pages), those concerned with the European series were getting ready for that championship's final co-efficient 20 round, the Rothmans…

Joy-riding When Duncan Rabagliati phoned last December to ask if I would like to join Team Rabagliati on the RAC Classic Run, he kindly offered me a choice of cars. There was…

EXETER" two-three seaterf ast-touring model, ah.v. engine, £395 The " COLMORZ" three-four seater de luxe fast-touring model, twin carburetter oli.v. engine, £495. The "REPLICA T.T.-ALPINE " two-seater model (modified lowered…

An interesting and well-organised S.S.C.C. International Meeting at Kinneil.  Rain spoils the second-half times. The second round of the R.A.C. Hill-Climb Championship was run off at Bo'ness on June 26th,…

Subject to FIA recognition, new International Compression-Ignition Class-D records for the s.s. I-mile, 1-mile and kilometre and for the f.s. kilo, and mile have been set by motoring journalist Fritz…