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Parnelli Jones
'Aggression,' Parnelli Jones has said, stating his guiding maxim, 'is something you can't teach a race driver. You either have…
'Aggression,' Parnelli Jones has said, stating his guiding maxim, 'is something you can't teach a race driver. You either have…
One of Parnelli's most significant victories was the 1971 Baja 1000, the big off-rood desert dash across the trackless wilds…
The discovery of what appears to be a Nazzaro Lapel-badge reminds me of the cars which bore that famous racing…
Not the title of a Sherlock Holmes pastiche, although I am perhaps guilty of writing the first of these, in…
I think the picture on page 86 of the February 2002 Motor Sport is something of a scoop, as surely…
It seems that the Bert Hadley Memorial events will again go well. By February, 18 entries had come in, including…
A reader, by minute detective work, tells me that the picture used with my piece on the 200hp V8 Darracq…
Of course exceeding a speed-limit by as much as 105mph must incur a severe penalty, in an age when Big…
When BBC2 showed a replay of the 1960s film Your Money or Your Wife, one was reminded of what a…
"The VSCC has reached an anomalous position where a member can build a chassis from parts of four makes, insert…
Ford in Britain (Haynes, ISBN 1 85960 823, £30.00), a history of the company and its cars, is by Martin…
Motoring was more fun years ago than it now is, I think most would agree. In July 1945, Motor Sport…
This year's Brooklands Society Reunion is taking place at the Track on June 23. It will be based on 'The…
What splendid pictures compose the 2002 Motor Sport Calendar. Not only do the LAT photographs constitute an evocative recall of…
This year's VSCC Pomeroy Trophy at Silverstone had 93 entries and 83 starters, 13 driving pre-1931 cars, 13 in those…
For Jowett Jupiter fans Edmund Nankivell has The Jowett Jupiter, A Car for Road, Rally and Race (ISBN 9541144 0,…
In the February issue I queried whether the small vintage Amilcar sportscars would be a match for post-vintage ones. The…
For the first time in 24 years Indycars will race next Sunday at the 2.5 mile Pocono Speedway in the Pocono Mountains in eastern Pennsylvania. Pocono is a very fast,…
In 2011, Dan Wheldon came in from the IndyCar cold to take a scarcely believable last-lap, last-corner win at the Indy 500 – his then-team boss Bryan Herta recounts the story
I was at school on my 17th birthday which is the only reason that was not also the date on which I passed my driving test. I didn’t pass on…
For the second year in a row five-time NASCAR champion Jimmie Johnson has been ranked by Forbes magazine as America’s most influential athlete. Forbes polled more than 1100 adults aiming…