Silverstone, September 16th It didn't need much of an expert to predict the winner of this year’s Tourist Trophy, sponsored on this occasion by Pentax; with three obsolete BMW 3.2CSLs…

Barrie ‘Whizzo’ Williams emerged unscathed after rolling Burkhard von Schenk’s Cooper-Maserati T51 during the Silverstone Classic, despite finishing wrong way up in the Bridge corner gravel. “I don’t remember a…

Having once been told that it is unethical for a journalist to compare one make of car with another (an opinion with which we disagree, because what the journalist does…

Roger Willis It is with a great feeling of personal sadness that we report the death of Roger Willis, Castrol's Public Information Controller and erstwhile Competitions Manager, who succumbed to…

Talking to Patrick Head, the designer of the Frank Williams team cars, he queried why the specialist motor magazines insisted on quoting the chassis numbers of his cars with two…

Noticing that this feature has dried up in recent months, a reader in Alberta kindly sent me a copy of "One Doctor In His Time", by Bethel Solomons (Christopher Johnson,…

For the second round at Le Circuit Mont Tremblant, the Can-Am circus was joined by the latest version of the Shadow, a go-kart type of sports racer that had appeared…

Mosport Park, Ont. (June 13th) The sixth season of J-Wax-sponsored Group 7 competition in America got under way at Mosport Park, Ontario, on Sunday, June 13th, with Team Gulf McLaren…

At the end of June there was an Alpine Rally in Southern France, but it was an Alpine in name only. Gone were the old atmosphere, the old polish and…

The occasion of this year's British Grand Prix at Silverstone was also the twenty-first anniversary of the BRM team, for it was at Silverstone that the BRM V16 first appeared.…

In the prospect of obtaining very high speeds on the straight sections of the Hockenheim track Ferrari schemed up some streamlined spats which fitted behind the rear wheels of the…

It staged only one grand prix, but Monsanto Park helped establish Portugal as a player in F1. Richard Heseltine retraces its history. Photography by Ian Dawson. The look of displeasure…