Trading places Last month we spoke of the massive budgets of professional teams, the comparatively meagre resources of private competitors and the extremely remote possibility that any moderately heeled amateur…

In developed Europe, much of a team's strategic resources may be buried deep in concrete jungles, never actually seen, whilst even their en route service points are very often in…

Ash is no longer the popular car construction material which it was, but if anyone is looking for a supply of the wood for refurbishing or restoration we can pass on…

The last qualifying event of the World Rally Championship of 1955, November's Network RAC Rally of Great Britain, is very likely (subject to what happens in the all-tarmac Spanish round…

The 1953 Coronation Safari, and the two East African Safaris which followed, were supported by the then East African Standard newspaper, and last Easter Clive Pulman, managing director of the…

Five and Out No matter how many manufacturers' teams contest the World Rally Championship, history records that, when the half-year stage is reached, the number actually in contention for the…

Not so very long ago, about three years in fact, the most important events in the competition programmes of factory teams, both in Britain and on the Continent, were those…

Rally of the Thousand Lakes Finland is not what you would call a wild country. Had George Borrow gone there instead of to Wales he would very likely have found…

Whether it is because too many events have been held in too short a space of time, or because Alpine has built up such a commanding early lead in the…

It is about this time of the year, with the R.A.C. Rally over and done with, that thoughts begin to turn to what 1969 has to offer, what changes the…

Have you ever returned, many years after, to a place which you once knew well, which you liked immensely and which holds many dear memories for you? More often than…

Monte Carlo Rally Much has been said of the technical achievement of Audi in producing a four-wheel-drive car which has not only the power to win rallies but handling properties…