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This year marks the 21st Anniversary of the founding of the Morgan Three-Wheeler Club, and the Club, are celebrating this event in conjunction with their Annual General Meeting week-end, to be held on…

I do not normally take the halfway stage in a Grand Prix season as being significant enough to call for a review or a re-cap, but the way things have…

The famous Reg. No. M 7, belonging to Stirling Moss, will in future be seen on his N.S.U. Prinz: This is the second N.S.U. Moss has owned, which confirms his…

STARTING GRID 12 1 N. Lauda E. Fittipaldi (Ferrari flat-12) (McLaren-CO.1yard, V8) 312133/023 M23j8-2 I min. 42.003 sec. 1 mm. 42.360 sec. 7 17 . C. Reutemann J-P. Jarier (Brabbani-Cosusirth…

ANDRETTI concluded the most successful season in his career in appropriate fashion last month by driving his STP Hawk-Ford to victory in the final USAC race of the year, the…

The B.B.C. 2 " Wheelbase" programme looked recently at the question of what to call p.v.t. cars and the status of post-1945 sports cars, the filming being done at the…

Wringing 100 bhp per litre from a production-line car would once have seemed an absurd target, incurring all sorts of unreliability and intractability. But that figure is exactly what a…

JOE COPPS, of Indianapolis Speedway, has forwarded to us an interesting book entitled "Why I Became a Race Driver." The author is Wilbur Shaw, who won the Indianapolis "500" in…

* * a Sir, Replying to the letter in the July MOTOR SPORT concerning Citroen Cars. I bought one in 1939 and it has given me very good service—I think…

In the name of glory – 1976 The greatest ever sporting duel Tom Rubython The greatest ever sporting duel? That’s debatable, but James Hunt and Niki Lauda’s fight for the…

(Feb. 28th) The Vintage Sports-Car Club's Pomeroy Trophy contest, which by means of a series of timed tests at Silverstone purports to find the ideal touring car of any age…

TRANSVAAL HILL-CLIMBING. Austin " Seven " Successes. Under the auspices of the Transvaal Automobile Club, several hill-climbing competitions were held last April, on the severe hill in the Transvaal called…