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F1 Antics
Sir, One has to laugh at the antics of today's Formula One team owners. Damon Hill becomes Champion and out…
Sir, One has to laugh at the antics of today's Formula One team owners. Damon Hill becomes Champion and out…
Classic dealers Coys of Kensington have broadened their range of archive material with these dramatic posters featuring Dexter Brown artwork.…
A works Lotus Eleven which contested the 1956 Le Mans race and has been in the USA since that same…
France's other 24-hour race is a stiff challenge for historic racers Literally "twice round the clock", this 24-hour Historic race…
The hyperactive John Brown, who invented and managed the 1994 and 1995 versions of LE JOG, now has backing from…
This little gem of an event is a round of the FIA Historic Rally Championship, and is therefore properly put…
When the Royal Assent was given to the 'Locomotives on Highways Act in June 1896, the sport and pastime of…
Laurence Meredith examines a famous works rally car, and gets to sit where Moss once sat... In our motoring world…
British Post-War Competition Engines With the resumption of peace after World War II and even with shortages of vital materials…
Slow, old-fashioned, unwieldy... Surely a Beetle can't win rallies? Laurence Meredith gets things straight With its grossly under-powered, understressed, under-the-wrong-lid…
In 1922, in the pursuit of more power from Grand Prix and voiturette racing car engines restricted by prevailing race…
To make up for the loss of its Weston-Super-Mare speed trials, the VSCC again held a 1/4-mile sprint along the…
Most people regarded the Austin Twenty, the first car to emerge from the gigantic factory at Northfields, Birmingham after the…
The VMCC is rightly pleased that among its 13,000-plus membership it has more than a few lady riders. However, before…
It may not have been generally realised that at this year's British GP at Silverstone the R-REC, at the request…
By a remarkable coincidence a reader, having bought some photo negatives of cars at a local market stall, found that…
Those of you who remember how cramped the Olympia Motor Shows used to be, so that eventually a move was…
Stanley Sedgwick, Patron of the Bentley Drivers Club and an exceedingly influential personality in so many fields, especially those concerned…
We hear that the last of Challenor Barson's many Berson Specials is still in use, but that at 87 this…
The VSCC has a liking for Wales as trials territory and its traditional event, the two-day road and hill-storm fixture,…
The Subaru Impreza 555 swept all before it in the WRC, and became an icon in the hands of Colin McRae – its design team leader remembers the epic tale
Just in case you think motorcycle racers used to be different, here’s something I wrote back in 2003 “This is bike racing, not classical music,” opined former 250cc world champion…
If ever concrete proof was needed that Netflix’s Drive to Survive series has vastly impacted F1’s popularity in the USA, you only needed note the 120,000-plus spectators who flocked into…
Racing is often a family business, as sons have regularly attempted to follow in their fathers footsteps up the F1 ladder. But, as Damien Smith has come to find, having a famous racing parent can be more of a burden than an advantage