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Dorretti Day At Silverstone What with the Eclipse of the Sun on the last day of June and the British debut of the Spaghetti on July 1st we have been…

It's funny how a throwaway remark can sometimes boomerang. Walking into the Shadow team's garage at the 1978 Silverstone International Trophy meeting, I caught my first glance of its new…

Rene Arnoux stood in the Dijon pit lane, listening. Listening to the throttle applications and braking points of an old friend performing a secret test in Rene's Ligier. What he heard made…

Keith Duckworth, the supreme British racing-engine designer, is known to have had an aversion to supercharging and turbocharging. Graham Robson has made this clear in his fascinating book Cosworth, which…

To meet the repeated demands for something on the lines of the old Spare Parts Announcements, we have instituted a system of inexpensive advertisements. Each announcement must be limited to…

Twenty five years on, the photograph still has a mesmeric power to make your eyes prickle, to evoke anger and poignant images of what might have been. Five men stand…

By "Baladeur" It was, I suppose, inevitable, as soon as Serpollet, Levassor, de Crawhez and the other pioneers of the Nineteenth .Century had successfully demonstrated the ability of the motor…

Reminders of Rouen Sir, I write having read Andrew Frankel's poignant 'track test' report on Rouen-Les-Essarts in the May edition. I was there for the last Grand Prix on that…

Tachometers TO THE racing driver in full action the most important instrument is the one that indicates what speed his engine is doing. He knows, for example, that his Cosworth…

Sir, I write regarding the current state of Formula One which is stale and not very exciting, a fact proved by your superb February 2000 issue. After gazing at the…

Dreyfus, the young French amateur came home a winner of the second Grand Prix of Monaco, which was run on Sunday, 6th April, at the truly remarkable speed of 53.9…