This year the GP of the ACF, better known as the French Grand Prix, was given the title of GP d'Europe, for what it was worth, and attracted a very…

FROM MEMORY it is difficult to recall a. Grand Prix paddock that had as much mechanical interest and new things as Kyalami had before the South African Grand Prix. There…

During last winter we had a long spell with no Formula One racing, but even so there was a lot of activity in the re-structuring of teams, both mechanically and…

Gearboxes When the fashion for putting the engine behind the driver really got under way among the special builders, the problem arose of what to do for a gearbox and…

Williams: The official announcement in Austria that Frank Williams had concluded a deal with the Honda Motor Company of Tokyo to use their engines for 1984, with an experimental probe…

Fittipaldi was using a new McLaren M23 that had first appeared two weeks previously at the Swiss race at Dijon. It was the tenth M23 to be built, but as…

Making notes about the Ferrari ears at the Osterreichring was quite simple; there were no Ferrari cars. After the German Grand Prix the Commendatore withdrew his team, ostensibly for the…

An Easy Win for Behra and Porsche Rouen FRANCE, June 8th. ALTHOUGH the meeting at Rouen this year, on the magnificent circuit of Les Essarts, had the air of a…

The expression "pace notes" in rallying terms refers to the written details that rally navigators use to aid the drivers to know what is approaching. These notes detail everything, such…

[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad, keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W.B., Before leaving Spain on a recent trip I made a…

Exiting times ahead When the new Formula One due to start in 1989 was announced it sounded deadly dull and I thought about taking up model-car collecting. That was two…

IF YOU were a motoring journalist faced with the task of assembling half a dozen immaculately finished and efficiently modified motor cars, to meet the standards of the most discerning…