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Matters of moment, September 1975
The dry/wet tyre farce The primary purpose of a racing car is speed. Any outside factor (the driver is inside!)…
The dry/wet tyre farce The primary purpose of a racing car is speed. Any outside factor (the driver is inside!)…
Osterreichring, Knitteffeld, August 17th In torrential rain with a back-drop of thunder and lightning the Austrian Grand Prix started over…
Few competitors have made the transition from motorcycle racing to the world of Formula One with the same success as…
Nurburgring, Germany, August 3rd Once a year the Formula One Grand Prix circus has to face up to the challenge…
The McLaren team completed the rebuilding of the car that Jochen Mass crashed at Zandvoort and it was taken to…
[By means of which our roving European reporter keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W.B., I had a good…
Schrader Air Pump PUMPING UP flat tyres with a foot pump can be back-breaking work. Schrader Auto BMW are offering…
Pumping up flat tyres with a foot pump can be back-breaking work. Schrader Automotive Products Division can take out the…
From the Archives-1
Who is Johnny Cecotto, anyway? Imagine it's a sunny Silverstone Saturday and you've wandered along, as our intrigued reporter did,…
A section devoted to old car matters VSCC Prescott (August 10th) It was hot work at Prescott but the hill…
Sanity returned to Silverstone after the British Grand Prix, with the Vintage SCC Race Meeting the following week-end, when a…
The Austin Ten DC held its 10th National Rally over a week-end, in the pleasant and highly convenient setting of…
In July the Vintage MCC again held its Black Mountains Run, but with a depleted entry this year, a reflection…
Pre-War Cars in Belgium Sir, I must correct the statement by Mr. S. J. Brown of the Morris Register published…
V-E-V • Miscellany.—The four-cylinder Austin Twenty, first post-Armistice new model from Longbridge, while now a rare encounter, isn't exactly extinct.…
A Comparison Earlier this year Ford-of-Britain announced with a powerful build-up a revised edition of the long-lived, popular and successful…
The World Championship of Makes Osterreichring, June 29th With victories in both of what will probably prove to be the…
Rally Review Clark wins in South Africa Some Europeans seem to have fixed but not entirely accurate conceptions of African…
Silverstone, July 19th The British GP, for what it was worth, took place at Silverstone on Saturday, July 19th, in…
Rob Walker, his team owner, always reckoned that Stirling Moss’s victory at the Nürburgring in 1961 was his greatest drive, but Moss himself opts for Monaco the same year: “Without…
The MotoGP rumour mill usually does its work in the darker corners of the paddock, where journalists, rider managers and team managers arrange secret assignations under cover of team artics,…
When Josh Pierson was born in 2006, Tom Kristensen had already won seven of his nine Le Mans victories. The only Porsche prototype he’s seen race is the 919 —…
It’s probably happened before and since in motor racing somewhere around the world, but the most spectacular last to first performance I’ve ever witnessed took place on the Milwaukee Mile…