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Double standards
Sir, Is it true that the Monza banking has not been used for racing since 1961 (MOTOR SPORT, July 1999)?…
Sir, Is it true that the Monza banking has not been used for racing since 1961 (MOTOR SPORT, July 1999)?…
Sir, Keith Howard repeats the assertion that slick tyres first appeared in F1 in 1971. Smooth tyres have been utilised…
Sir, I find it difficult to believe that your correspondent Mr Cracknell (July 1999) has taken four decades to realise…
"Back in 1964, I was doing a tyre test at Trenton, New Jersey, and there's this young guy there, driving…
How good was Gilles? Well, he didn't win the World Championship. He was capable of it, no question but he…
It's hard to believe, but 20 years have passed since a Ferrari driver last won the World Championship with Jody…
Jochen Mass Four years before Gilles' accident, I had an incident with Bruno Giacomelli at Zolder, coming over the crest.…
It's called Vantage but do not think this is just a faster DB7. Andrew Frankel spends two days on the…
Given the length and variety of Walter Rohrl's career you might think he'd find it difficult selecting the worst of…
Bill Boddy imagines himself in the shoes of one of the best-known of journalist-racers, and ponders the less remembered side…
Seven years on, and the spectacle continues to amaze. Whether it was the dramatic sight of visual masterpieces like the…
To passers-by at Baron's Court underground station, two days before Christmas 1985, he was just an elderly man, but by…
Among the wreckage of a German fighter plane was found the future for racing car suspensions. Keith Howard reveals the…
Welcome to part two of Mark Hughes' assessment of the top 100 greatest racing drivers of all time. On the…
Shaped in the wind tunnel, Bristol's striking Le Mans cars were technologically ahead of their time. Simon Taylor drove the…
Indianapolis 500, 1974 He'd tried ten times and not once even finished the Indy 500 but in 1974 nothing, not…
Motor racing's followers after WWII were aware of the beautiful cars built by Harry Miller in the USA. Miller-engined cars…
We are used to TV camera shots from cars in today's races. But who did it first? Certainly a cameraman…
With the worries of the millenium approaching, one bright idea stands out. On January 7/8 2000, the MCC is to…
I read Emma Tennant's memoir Strangers thinking it might include something on David Tennant's Beardmore and a racing `Sascha' Austro-Daimler,…
Ferrari's F1 challenge has crumbled since winning at the start of last year. An all-new car is in the pipeline, but Carlos Sainz suggests that the team still doesn't understand the problems it needs to avoid
Since 2014, Formula 1 preseason testing has been characterised by one certainty, Mercedes will appear from the garage on the dot of 9am then proceed to relentlessly put in lap…
What is a Le Mans Hypercar? And which entries are under these rules? All the information on the front-runners for the 2024 season and beyond
Early in the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix weekend, it looked as if somebody — anybody — might beat Max Verstappen. But come raceday, he was untouchable again. Mark Hughes on how he added another F1 win to his record-breaking tally