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Giveen's suicide
Sir, Further to WB's piece Clearing Giveen in September's issue, the ERA Club published an extract from a proposed follow-up…
Sir, Further to WB's piece Clearing Giveen in September's issue, the ERA Club published an extract from a proposed follow-up…
Sir, I believe that the Soryana Pedrosa referred to in Mr Weaver's letter in your November edition was actually a…
Maybe, in 20 years' time, there will be those who hark back to 1992 and drone on and on about…
Moss — The First 10 Years/Weekend at Le Mans 1957, Terrific Stuff Videos. 50 min, £17.99. For the first half-hour…
Safari Rally — The First 40 Years, by Roger Barnard. Westholme Publishing, Sheffield SI0 1DA. £13.99. Other than those devoted…
For its 40th annual edition, Automobile Year has adopted a mildly 'retro' tone, with reflective pieces on dream cars, Formula…
Former colleague Henry seems to be averaging about one book per month at the moment. The latest boils down to…
Les Vingt-Quatre Heures du Mans 1991 and 1992, Sports Seen. 90 min, £10.99 each. Contractual negotiations delayed the launch of…
Nigel Mansell - World Champion. Simon & Schuster, £3.99. Anything that contains the line "At last the scream of tortured…
August Reflections, by Arthur Benjamins. This splendid rendering of Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird K4 is the latest masterpiece from well-known…
Crowood's Autoclassics range is expanded again by these two subjects. Robson's brief is to cover all variants of the long-lived…
Rather as the BBC has gone into publishing, so has John Surtees become an author; but he has the excuse…
It's easy to say "What, another one?" when particular subjects crop up in the motoring press. Bugatti, along with Ferrari,…
Mini - A Celebration of the World's Ultimate Small Car, by Graham Scott. Hamlyn, £10.99. The word 'Celebration' hints at…
OS Motoring Atlas of Great Britain, 1993 Edition. Ordnance Survey, in conjunction with Hamlyn. £8.99 (spiral binding); £6.99 (perfect binding).…
Sir, I found October's article on Pike's Peak very interesting. When in Colorado last year I drove my rented Oldsmobile…
Sir, So Princess Diana has bought a pair of karts for the two princes and karting is set to become…
Sir, Having read your review of the European F3000 season last month, and taken on board the problems the formula…
Sir, I hear of some scheme whereby Williams-Renault will run its second car for two drivers in 1993: Nigel Mansell…
Sir, What has happened to the British Formula 3 Championship? A few years ago, our national F3 series used to…
I saw Gilles Villeneuve race. Just the once, and not for long. But as time has passed, it’s a brief blurry memory I’ve come to cherish. Why? Because for me,…
There are some who consider the trip from Europe to Suzuka an inconvenience – a long-haul flight followed by a significant train ride should you land in Osaka or, more…
MotoGP Mutterings, part 2: Rossi's lack of pace doesn't bode well for his home race, plus why the grippy Le Mans tarmac may be behind the high crash count and weak…
Born on Christmas Day 1934, Giancarlo Baghetti pulled off a miraculous debut Grand Prix victory at Reims in 1961 to set his legacy firmly in stone... The pressure in Syracuse –…