THE MANX GRAND PRIX. THE Manx M.C.C. have this year decided to discontinue the running of the Amateur Road Race, since the difficulties of defining Amateur status had become insuperable.…

Had the Hockenheim Formula 3000 race lasted two laps longer, chances are that Franck Lagorce might not have won it. For that was as far as he got into his…

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AN EX-BRABFIAM MECHANIC WRITES Once again your excellent magazine has reawakened memories of my early days at Brabham. In December 1963 I started my apprenticeship with full expectation that within…

CONTENTS Tie for the Wakefield Trophy 879 History of the Rio de Janeiro G.P..... 380 Letters from Readers .... 384 Rumblings .... • • • • 385 Bira" Beaten Twice…

The US Grand Prix is set to return at a permanent track in the booming Texan city of Austin in 2012. The man behind the project is Tavo Hellmund, a…

Some Cogent Comments on British Racing as delivered by Peter Browning SINCE 1972 the Executive Director of the British Racing and Sports Car Club has been Peter Browning. With the…

They're not just any old cars, so why use just any old oil? Everyone has a car they love. For some people, the 'exceedingly eye-worthy, fast and accelerative' iitGull-wing, as…

Despite ending the Spa race with a hand injury after a tangle with the Lotus 69 of Sandy Watson, Peter Shaw clinched the Formula Atlantic class of the International Historic…

We have commented previously on the excellence of Thor hammers and now a very useful new Thorlite soft-faced hammer set has been announced. Briefly, this patented hammer comprises an aluminium…

Sir, I was most interested in reading Bill Little's splendid account of his motoring adventures, to see references to the 19/90 Austro-Daimler that I bought off him in 1954. I…

ITI-1,MS OF INTE4R1-4,ST Marelli Vacuum Servo mARELLI MAGNETOS (England), Ltd., are marketing an interesting servo brake mechanism which may be fitted to any car. Power is derived in the usual…