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STEEP THRILLS
STEEP THRILLS SHELSLEY WALSH IS 96 THIS YEAR. BUT ITS ORGANISING CLUB, MIDLAND AC, HITS THE EVEN TON. PAUL FEARNLEY…
STEEP THRILLS SHELSLEY WALSH IS 96 THIS YEAR. BUT ITS ORGANISING CLUB, MIDLAND AC, HITS THE EVEN TON. PAUL FEARNLEY…
MIDLAND AC: THE FIRST 100 YEARS The Midland Automobile Club was formed on January 11, 1901 — the first to…
THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY SHOULD TRY HARDER MARIO ANDRETTI 1987 INDIANAPOLIS 500 ANDRETTTS LUCK AT INDY WAS ATROCIOUS, BUT…
UNITIES & KNOCKS FORD'S RALLY BOSS, MALCOLM WILSON, WANTS THE SPORT TO NURTURE NEW TALENT; FOR WHEN HE WAS BRITAIN'S…
BRIDGING TROUBLED WATERS IT WAS A NORMAL FOREST HAZARD, A BROW concealing a right-hand bend into a concrete bridge with…
BILL BODDY WO Bentley at Le Mans ALL THE PUBLICITY ABOUr THE ENTRY OF TWO BENTLEY EXP Speed 8s for…
miscellany IT IS SAID THAT AS ONE GETS older the mind wanders — some may say mine always has —…
The Autocar thought of it first WHAT WAS IT THAT THIS LEADING weeldy magazine thought of first? The answer is…
BILL BODDY Ebby: timing it to perfection I DO NOT THINK THAT THERE HAVE BEEN ANY DEAD-HEAT finishes in grands…
miscellany THE SHUTTLEWORTH TRUST AT Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, is the finest tribute the racing driver, pilot (he was killed night-flying in…
miscellany ANOTHER 1920s BROOICLANDS car which has survived is the 2-litre straight-eight Miller owned by Karl F Bloechle of Zurich.…
If eight is good, 12 is better THERE WAS AN AGE WHEN THOSE WHO thought of cars as status symbols…
A special Siddeley FOLLOWING OUR RECENT REFERENCE TO SIDDELEY SPECIALS, A READER SENT US a photo of an unusual car…
There's no margin for error when you're being chased by a camera car, but this time around the Foster-Trott MGB was a well-oiled unit. Sort of... Three months on from our misdemeanours…
Poor old Pirelli. They're damned if they do, and damned if they don't. It was asked to make racing tyres that wear out more quickly, to spice up the show,…
“We’re the best, right? Formula 1 is the best, and we don’t need anything in it that isn’t the best… “People going on about only 19 or 20 cars in…
International rallying was a different beast in 1973. That year’s Daily Mirror-sponsored RAC was contested by 198 crews over five days and 70 stages; it would have been 80 stages…