Ferrari produced a brand new T5 for Villeneuve (048), while Scheckter had his usual car (046) and the spare was 044 (marked 043).  Tyrrell had their usual three cars, 010/4 (marked…

The Appleton Special  In the 1931 Tourist Trophy race on the Ards circuit in Northern Ireland car number 34 was one of the foreign entries in the 1100 cc class. This…

The British Drag Racing Association started their festival of accelerative speed at Blackbushe aerodrome in Surrey, on September 19th, and assembled a fine cross-section of the best in American exponents…

A Spectator's View The Le Mans 24-hour race was postponed from June to the end of September and this gave a feeling that the whole event was going to be…

Pre-race tension for the Le Mans 24-hour event started to build up last February when Ferrari had a sweeping victory at Daytona and the Ford team were plagued by gearbox troubles.…

In most socket spanner sets the ratchet-handle attachment suffers from a pawl and tooth engagement that is too coarse, needing quite long movements of the handle before the next tooth…

For those who have the time to sit quietly and assemble plastic model racing cars, and even more time for painting them, the FROG/AMT kit series produce a number of…

Normality returns Castellet, July 7th  With the Grand Prix season around its half-way point everything looked to be set fair as the Formula One teams assembled at the Circuit Paul…

D.S.J.: Good morning A.H. Since we wept tears together as we looked at the wonderful Circuit Nationale de Francorchamps, declared to be unsuitable for Formula One on that glorious June…

As the Grand Prix “circus” converged on the Nurburgring through the Eifel mountains, Ferrari from Italy, Matra from France, Lotus, BRM, Brabham, Cooper and McLaren from England, and BMW from…

With the European Grand Prix season now in full swing the Formula One teams are kept very busy racing almost every alternate weekend and pre-race testing and development testing in…

Inconclusive  Dijon-Prenois, July 5th  The most important aspect of the 1981 French Grand Prix was that it saw the return of the Goodyear Tyre Company to Formula One. It will…