When practice began a 3pm on Friday there was a feeling of apprehension in the air, for those teams using Cosworth-Ford V8 engines were very jumpy about the recent unreliability…

Almost every week in the sporting papers there are scare-headlines such as "Castle Combe doomed", "Oulton Park threatened", "Lydden Hill in danger", and so on. What the papers are trying…

For many years the atmosphere around the pit area at Monza was fraught with tough policemen who would throw anybody out on the slightest pretext, especially if they were not…

Talking to Patrick Head, the designer of the Frank Williams team cars, he queried why the specialist motor magazines insisted on quoting the chassis numbers of his cars with two…

The occasion of this year's British Grand Prix at Silverstone was also the twenty-first anniversary of the BRM team, for it was at Silverstone that the BRM V16 first appeared.…

In the prospect of obtaining very high speeds on the straight sections of the Hockenheim track Ferrari schemed up some streamlined spats which fitted behind the rear wheels of the…

Brabham-Alfa Romeo win under a cloud Anderstorp, June 17th The superiority of the Lotus 79 “ground effects” car was severely challenged in the Swedish GP by the B–version of the…

[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad, keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W. B., Although I am writing this to you from one…

Oulton Park, August 16th It is fortunate for the North of England that they have the Mid-Cheshire Motor Racing Club, for these enthusiastic people do their utmost to bring Grand…

A new company has been formed in Stuttgart, known as the VW-Porsche Vertriebsgesellschaft mbH, or “VG” for short, and its job is to be responsible for marketing, distribution and publicity…

September racing starts of promptly on the first of the month with a speed-feast at Brands Hatch for Formula Two, with supporting races, this being August Bank Holiday Monday, even…

The long-distance sports car racing scene this year has been increasingly dominated by Porsche, both as regards new models and development and weight of numbers, for at each stage of…