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WB Tribute at The Track To celebrate the life of our founder editor Bill Boddy, Motor Sport and Brooklands Museum plan a Tribute Day at Brooklands on October 1. Vehicles…

A DAY WITH TWO RILEYS ON THE ROAD AND TRACK HEN a firm takes the trouble to provide special cars for special purposes, it is misleading to take one model…

FISA gave Perry McCarthy a superlicence in Brazil and then it took it away... Sentiment is a rare enough commodity in real life; in the insular environs of Formula One…

Sir, I bought a Rochdale Olympic as a result of your excellent articles extolling the virtues of the Phase I, and later the Phase II, through your small advertisements section.…

Continental Note New The Racing Car of To-day . . . . Chief topic of conversation lately has been the Berlin Motor Show and the marvels of automobile engineering contained…

The Cedar Tree Sir, Reference your “Out of the past" on “The Cedar Tree", I confirm that the building you mention does survive, but not as a tea-shop. Fairly recently…

HERE AND THERE Sports Car Tuning. IN our description of the workshops cf Messrs. C.-trling Motors, Ltd., last month, we made some reference to the personal experience of the foreman,…

The Editor is something of a purist where motor racing is oncerned and it does not require much provocation for him to become steamed up over well-known racing drivers engaging…

1986 Rally of Portugal How did your rallying career start? When I was nine years old my father bought me a kart. It was not a serious thing. The brakes…

Reutemann the Winner, but Fittipaldi the Champion Watkins Glen, New York, October 6th Watkins Glen, the 3.7-mile road circuit in the north of New York state, has been the scene…

Clark's great Indianapolis victory At a time when British trade can do with a boost and we are not even present on the space-race starting-grid, let us rejoice over the…

MODERN TIMES ALMOST NEVER DO I LOSE MY FAITH IN the unpredictability of Formula One. But I will admit there have been a couple of moments this year when I…