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Sir, At the conclusion of the interesting article on The Silver Bullet you say that Louis Coatalen was a mental wreck a few years later. I knew this great man…

The small Lincolnshire market town of Bourne is to be turned into a recreation of a 1962 Grand Prix as the home of BRM celebrates 50 years since the marque…

QUITE a lot of cars are mentioned in "Journey to Ardmore" by John Ridgway (Hodder & Stoughton, 1971), which includes the account of the author's excitrog career and his very…

CHRISTMAS FAIRY STORY We have seldom published fiction in MOTOR SPORT. Readers sometimes ask why. The answer is because it is so very bad. Just how bad you can judge…

One of the saddest announcements we have ever made is that Brooklands is no more. Built by the late H. F. Locke King, at his own expense, for the express…

Sir. Malaya presents the absolute testing conditions for a car, with it's extreme heat, copious torrential rainfall, long, fast and other extremely rough corrugated dusty roads. In this country, where a three-year-old…

Sir, In his December column, the excellent Simon Taylor hit several nails firmly and squarely on the head. Why should there not be a series of nonchampionship events for Formula…

Today, Formula 1 teams expect two years' warning of technical rule changes. Thirty years ago, they got four months. Cue panic - then a prime example of pure inspiration writer…

Hegbourne (Lola) and Burnard (A.C.-Bristol) Lead in the MOTOR SPORT Brooklands Memorial Trophy Contest  - Lotus Cars Win Five Out of Seven Races In perfect weather conditions, before a small…

 "Skywriting" by James Gilbert. 269 pp. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". (Michael Joseph Ltd., 52, Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3EF. £4.95.) This is a collection of extracts from some of…

It seems incredible, but 25 years have passed this summer since James Hunt became the sixth Briton to win the World Drivers' Championship. His feat is among many to be…

It was hot at the Midland AC's hill-climb on July 10th, making Edwardian engines boil, and too hot for those who were up against Guy Smith's Alvis-'Nash, which made pre-war ftd…