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The month in Motor Sport
January 17: Al Unser Jnr escapes with a shaking after crashing his Penske heavily during testing at Phoenix. 18: Franck…

January 17: Al Unser Jnr escapes with a shaking after crashing his Penske heavily during testing at Phoenix. 18: Franck…
Matters of moment Last month, we previewed Alfa Romeo's impending arrival in the British Touring Car Championship. This month, it's…
Obituaries The past 12 months have not been happy ones for NASCAR. Last year, Alan Kulwicki and Davey Allison perished…
Against the backdrop of technical confusion, acrimony, the odd bit of skullduggery and the spectre of refuelling, this is the…
29,000 feet going up; freefall coming down Scaling the nursery slopes of the Everest of F1 is the most arduous…
Just as it finally seemed within his reach, a broken titanium component crushed Peter Revson's F1 dream Peter Jeffrey Revlon…
Rally review After two near-misses, François Delecour's luck finally held together in Monte-Carlo, the Frenchman giving Ford its first victory…
Rally review The FIA's so-called rationalisation and streamlining of the World Rally Championship has led to what every one outside…
Will the WSC formula work? Daytona 24 Hours The new era of open-top, naturally aspirated World Sports Cars opened at…
Almost 10 years on from its triumphant escapades in the defunct European Touring Car Championship, Volvo is coming back to…
Postcard from America The headlines look grim for IndyCar racing. First Danny Sullivan is cut loose by Rick Galles and…
There are those who have dismissed the latest BMW M3 as a pale imitation of Its forebears. Surely, some mistake..?…
Seat Ibiza GTi A new category seems to crop up every five minutes in the motor industry. It is the…
Ford Probe What goes around comes around. Hard to argue any different, really. With the demise of the Capri in…
Ford Fiesta Pardon our cynicism, but the continually excellent sales results of the Ford Fiesta (virtually always amongst the top…
Citroën ZX Estate In 1993, it outsold Volkswagen in the UK. Overall sales exceeded 80,000 units for the first time…
Last February we described how the Junior Car Club entertained its more active members in the vintage years by putting…
Practically unknown, I would say, in this country, the Ravel was a well made car, designed by an engineer who…
My "Forgotten Makes" piece about SCAT/Ceirano in the January issue has brought a letter from Nick Sloan who owns a…
The VSCC opened its 1994 season traditionally on January 5/6 with the Measham Night Rally, this time in the Yorkshire…
Read part one of the interview here New South Walian engineer/mechanic Jim Smith had been with Team Lotus for less than a year when he was suddenly allocated to…
Laurent Mekies arrives as Red Bull F1 team principal with a series of immediate challenges to solve and long-term issues to tackle. He'll either sink or swim, says Mark Hughes
This column was originally intended to be a reflection on the weekend’s Donington Historic Festival which, for two of its three days was one of the happiest motor racing meetings…
The F1 performance advantage in the modern ground effect era changes from week to week – but no team can truly work out why, writes Mark Hughes