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Despite the announcement that the Eurospeedway Lausitzring track will not host a round of the FedEx CART Championship this year, the Rockingham race will go ahead as planned on September…

Bernard Cahier Cahier has been in the business since the 1950s, and is still at it aged 79. Now he has assembled his memoirs into a luxurious two-volume book. Seemingly…

Is yet more of the Safari Rally's adventuresome spirit about to be diluted? That's certainly the way it looks . . . Very little in the way of information concerning…

Yokohama has ruled the roost in the BTCC tyre war since Robb Gravett's dominant 1990 season, but finished this year having to share the nest with both Dunlop and Michelin.…

Sir, After nearly 30 years or more I recalled, in a conversation recently, the time when the late Sir Henry Segrave (then Major H.O. D. Segrave), visited Cliftonville on behalf…

The B.A.R.C.'s annual dinner and dance at Grosvenor House takes place this year on November 7th, when the chair will be taken by the President of the Club, the Duke…

The BuIlnose Morris Club is very much alive, with more than 370 members, of whom 44 live overseas. Its February magazine lists five new flatnose Morris owners who have joined recently,…

Engine: Four cylinders, 82.55 mm. x 72.75 mm. (1,558 c.c.). Twin-overhead camshafts. 9.5:1 compression ratio. 105 b.h.p. at 5,500 r.p.m. Gear ratio: 1st, 2.509; 2nd, 1.679; 3rd, 1.230; top, 1.0:1.…

ALMOST A HILL-CLIMB. ANOTHER INTER-VARSITY AFFAIR. Ti-rE annual hill-climb held by the Oxford and Cambridge clubs is always an occasion to be welcomed, held as it is at the beginning…

British star joins Jim Clark and Graham Hill in the history books Dan Wheldon has inscribed his name in racing history alongside motorsport legends Jim Clark and Graham Hill by…

The manner in which Nigel Mansell parked his McLaren to register retirement from the Spanish Grand Prix inevitably raises the question of whether he is already contemplating retirement of another…

The cockpit of his E-Type Jaguar, the garden of a Routier between Sarthe and Milan, a restaurant table on a cross-Channel ferry and the transit lounge at Orly are all…