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Champion-elect equals Senna's eight-in-a-season victory record ”I’m not designed to finish second or third. I am designed to win." Well, though he's said that in the past, Ayrton Senna didn't…

The MCC Exeter Trial in Vintage Times The 63rd edition of that unique and long-lived event, the Motor Cycling Club's Exeter Trial (known officially as the 'Winter Club Run' from…

Aurelio Lampredi, designer of the 4 1/2-litre Ferrari V12 engine which ended the domination of the supercharged Alfa Romeos in 1951, has died at the age of 71. After working…

POLICE AND MOTORISTS From Sir John Whitmore, Bart. Sir, For some time now MOTOR SPORT has carried readers' letters and editorials about the injustices of magistrates and police alike, in…

ORING SPORTSMEN MOT (NEW SERIES). V. THE HON. BRIAN LEWIS. ITHINK it was the famous PanhardLevassor driver, Rene de Knyff, who advised aspirants to a motor-racing career to bear his…

In our issue of September 1958 the Continental Correspondent described his experiences during the making of the Shell film of the Alpine Rally. The result of this work was recently…

THE OUTER CIRCUIT "200s" THE 1924 RACE (Continued from the September issue.) SO we come to September 20th, 1924, and the last, and in many ways the greatest, Outer Circuit…

Time for gardening leave? Sir, After watching Lewis Hamilton's interview with the BBC after Monaco, I was reminded of Jackie Stewart's interview of Ayrton Senna where he brought up the…

Rear Brakes Once the rigid, vintage type, rear axle had been done away with where the rear brakes were naturally on the ends of the axle tubes, some thoughts began…

SORRY! Sir, With reference to the photograph on page 195 of your May issue, of one of the Morgans on Hustyn," I venture to remark that the car actually is…

THE TWIAN Y-THIRD TARGA ALFA-ROMEO RETAIN TROPHY FOR ITALY. MO FiVERY year sees an increase in the number of motor races which are held, and every year sees an increase…

An enjoyable, if time-consuming, aspect of writing for Motor Sport is tackling interesting problems put to me by readers. The most recent one relates to a fine picture of a…