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Matters of moment, June 1985
Credit where it's due If you look back 10, 15, 20, or 25 years in the correspondence columns of any motoring magazine…
Credit where it's due If you look back 10, 15, 20, or 25 years in the correspondence columns of any motoring magazine…
New import A 1.3-litre version of the Alfa Romeo Arna is now available on the British market at £4,620. Talbot has…
(Full report next month) Monte Carlo— May 19th. AFTER dominating both days of qualifying and taking his third pole-position in…
Senna makes his mark It would probably be a very slight exaggeration to suggest that Ayrton Senna has brought a fresh…
— The mighty are fallen Imola, May 15th. As soon as the Portuguese Grand Prix was over, all the cars and material…
RESULTS let • Elio de Angelis o di Imola — 5.040 Idlornatros par lap — 302.. lhr 34min 35 955sec…
The constructors ot Formula Ford 1600 engines are in a peculiar position. They are, if you like, an establishment, men who have…
Four years have passed since Jean Ragnotti won the Monte-Carlo Rally in a Renault 5 Turbo, generating all manner of speculation…
ONE of the attractions of the sport of hillclimbing is that it is relatively easy to begin competing in. With…
WEC — Round 2. Rothmans-Porsche beaten at last! The Porsche factory's sportscar team has not been beaten in a World Endurance Championship…
— a cliff-hanger Maybe Jochen Mass made the most prophetic remark after winning at Vallelunga, when he commented that the cars…
The Lancia Delta HF Turbo There are those with long memories for whom no modern Lancia quite compares with the…
Nine years ago, among the ten qualifying events of the World Rally Championship for Makes was one which has never since…
It is impossible to consider Brough Superior cars, which celebrate their golden jubilee this year, without taking account of their builder,…
— Lindsay in fine form. Vanwall burns The VSCC racing scene moved to the excellent Donington Park circuit on April 28th…
Errett Lobben Cord - His Empire, His Motor Cars: Auburn, Cord, Duesenberg. by Griffiths Borgeson, 280 pp. 111/2" x 17". (Automobile Quarterly Publicaiions, Princetown, New Jersey, USA. $400)…
Remembering Parry Thomas Pendine Community Council held a rally on Easter Saturday to commemorate the birth of racing-driver Parry Thomas, who was…
SAN MARINO GP AFTER dominating both qualifying and the race itself, Ayrton Senna (above) had to accept the bitter disappointment…
A smart coupe with good performance May, 1932. On visiting the Motor Show at Olympia each year one usually goes fully…
OUR starting time was 5.37 a.m, and our number 537, the last car to start in the 1957 Mille Miglia. For the…
Wimbledon Stadium closed its doors recently, our photographer captured the venue's final month for the June issue of the magazine (available here). He came back with cards and cards –…
Sitting in my little office down by the sea in the south of England, it occurred to me that this is becoming a very interesting winter. I have been watching…
Wales Rally GB takes over Llandudno and Motor Sport's car arrives Motor Sport car ready for action Photo: Will Broadhead Some shoppers at Asda, Llandudno frowned while others stared wide-eyed yesterday morning, as…
Everywhere I go these days the hot topic is Michael Schumacher. Will he or won’t he? Everyone wants to know. And this got me thinking back to 1984. I can…