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The Fast Set: three extraordinary men and their race for the Land Speed Record by Charles Jennings, ISBN 34911596 6, published by Abacus. £8.99 (paperback) Campbell, Cobb and Segrave —…

R.A.C. Rally -- Ford retire with a win The make of the car may change but in the six years that our premier rally has taken to the forests it…

FRAM WELSH RALLY GENERAL CLASSIFICATION 1st: W. Sparrow/N. Raeburn (Cooper S 1340) .. 52 min. 30 sec 2nd: C. Sclater/M. Holmes (Escort TC 1598) .. 55 min. 09 sec. 3rd:…

TOURIST TROPHY Jaguar carry on BRITAIN'S second European Touring Car Championship event of 1982 (the first was at Donington) was held over the September 11th 12th weekend and was watched…

Fashions in Records. SINCE Von Stuck set up a speed of 134.6 m.p.h. for the world's hour record there has been a lull in the usual activity of people attempting…

THE 30 H.P. SIX-CYLINDER LAGONDA AN IMPRESSIVE CAR ALLYING SHEER LUXURY WITH A FINE PERFORMANCE THERE have been many arguments as to what constitutes a sports-car. One might further complicate…

Taking a break from F1 and F2, Jochen Rindt sprang a surprise when he took on the tin-top big boys at Sebring in an Alfa GTA By Paul Hudson Unlikely…

This isn't a road-test report, but the long week-end I recently spent with a Mercedes-Benz 300SE so profoundly impressed me that I cannot forgo setting down my impressions of this…

Grand prix mechanics from five decades met at Silverstone in April (above) for a reunion of the Grand Prix Mechanics' Trust, which supports ex-mechanics in hard times. Trust founder and…

The sixth running of the Targa Florio 'Autostoriche' took place on October 11, over the daunting Piccolo Madonie circuit in northern Sicily. As the penultimate round of the FIA Historic…

Endurance – that’s the theme at the Goodwood Festival of Speed on July 3-5. Not just long-distance racing but personal ‘grit’, as Lord March explained outside his house on a…

It is May, and to a vast throng of American motor sport enthusiasts the month of May means only one thing—Indianapolis, the hallowed Brickyard and the 500-mile race. The Indianapolis…