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Matters of Moment, January 1999
editorial First things first. A happy Christmas and best wishes for the new season from the staff of Motor Sport.…
editorial First things first. A happy Christmas and best wishes for the new season from the staff of Motor Sport.…
Chris Humberstone Chris Humberstone, former head of Spice Racing Cars and creator of the outrageous Allard WSC car, has died.…
Network Q Rally of GT Britain & Coys Historic Extraordinary events in November's Rally of Great Britain led to Tommi…
By the time these words are read the Mile Miglia will be taking place. There seem to be three methods…
The Japanese Grand Prix and its attendant dramas are long gone now: consigned already, it seems, to the history books.…
Sir, I was most interested to have my attention turned to the above car in the October 1998 edition of…
Sir, Turn it up, mate! Fosters spends millions on sponsoring Formula One and you will give them a serve about…
Sir, I thoroughly enjoyed Bill Blydenstein's article in the October issue on racing his Borgward saloon in the '50s and…
Sir, Chris Nixon is not quite right (Letters, December) in stating that there were only two versions of the Reims…
Sir, Having just read the very interesting article on the Straker Squire racing car in your July 1998 issue, it…
Sir, Re John Aston's letter in the December issue. As a competitor, I confess I had my doubts as the…
Sir, The two letters in your December issue commenting on the Goodwood Revival Meeting struck a chord about how easy…
Sir, It was with disappointment that I read Mr Boddy's rather negative BRM article in December's Motor Sport. He concluded…
Sir, I was grateful for that excellent Hotchkiss article. I have had that roadster CUL 597 for 27 years. The…
Sir, Further to Bill Boddy's article "British Racing Misery" in December, in 1950 I was still a medical student in…
Twenty years ago this month, found myself a week before Christmas in a place to which ordinarily wild horses would…
Compared with its immortal rival, the sleek Suprmnarine Spitfire featured in last month's Motor Sport, the Hawker Hurricane was considered…
While several Spitfires have been restored over the years, the same cannot be said of the Hurricane. In its heyday,…
The Forgotten Races - 1914 French Grand Prix Whether bravery of pointless egoism, Georges Boillot's vain battle shadowed the conflict…
The Forgotten Races - 1950 Belgian Grand Prix Who'd bet on a slow old Talbot against Alfa's works GP team?…
The first-ever world championship race took place on 13th June 1949. Four days later the first premier-class race was won by a rider who wasn’t allowed to fight in World War Two because his eyesight was so bad. Different times…
To buy the lead image click here. Today, being St Patricks Day, we recall five Irishmen who made F1 starts. Who do you remember? Who in your opinion is the…
A series taken from the 162-page Motor Sport special 100 Greatest Grands Prix (other specials are available here). From the editor Damien Smith The Grand Prix motor races we can never forget… Welcome to…
The Cut 7 E-types from the January issue of Motor Sport magazine, out now Not clones, not replicas – these two E-types have parallel and equally compelling histories, and we…