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Reflections — Prost like-Button leaves Hamilton shaken — Villeneuve's fear of falling out a window... The opening round of the 2012 World Championship, in Australia, rather put me in mind…

Harvey triumphs in three-way title fight as British touring car regs point the way for the rest of the world Such was the success of the Esso British Touring Car…

Sir, As the Founder and first Editor of Speed, which—after I dissociated myself from it—became merged with MOTOR SPORT, I crave the courtesy of a little of your space to…

We are indebted to our highly esteemed contemporary, The Engineer, for permitting us to reproduce the following Editorial which it published during the Motor Show period. The engineering opinions therein…

An adventure into Formula One during the 1.5 litre era Jorg-Thomas Fodisch, Jost Nesshover, Michael Behrndt and Rainer Rossbach The Porsche 718 and 804 are arguably the last fully-German cars…

Oita/Lewd THE MOTOR SPORTS CLUB An opening gathering of the Motor Sports Club was held at its premises during Grand Prix week. The scheme is for a Club, limited for…

Oita, /Lewd .....??•119PP THE CRAWFORDSBURN RALLY The Crawfordsburn Rally of the Ulster M.C., held in December last, proved an outstanding Success, in spite of being disfavoured by very poor climatic…

MONTY'S MONTE? The Rallye Monte Carlo Historique will run from January 27 to February 2, offering a 2500km route from five start venues. Cars from between 1957 and '77 will…

I availed myself of a pleasant run, one sunny Sunday, in the "Shelsley country", in Lewin Spittle's MG Midget. This little MG is different from the normal run of M-types,…

The first published figures for sales of the three rival American "small cars," the Chevrolet Corvair, Ford Falcon and Chrysler-Plymouth Valiant, show that in the first month (October 1959) 23,759 Corvairs…

While impecunious privateers in the '70s felt momocoques were flimsy and no rugged enough, this car proved them wrong, says Marcus Pye 1290 chassis HU22 — or 'Old Faithful' as…

At Peterborough M.C. Race Meeting (Sept. 28th) Winner of this year's Motor Sport Silverstone Trophy Final, contested at Silverstone, was W. E. Wilks driving a Frazer-Nash. Second and third were Bradley anhd…