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Matters of moment, April 1973
Our "Stop Clobbering" campaign MOTOR SPORT received an overwhelming response to the views expressed on this page in the February…

Our "Stop Clobbering" campaign MOTOR SPORT received an overwhelming response to the views expressed on this page in the February…
EASTER will see two endurance events, one traditional, the other new. The MCC Land's End Trial takes place as usual…
Our Cricket Correspondent writes: The time seems to have come when mere professional players no longer hold the attention of…
WHILE British racing circuits have been closing down, a group in Lancashire have built a little 800-yard track just five…
—a speculative essay— A MOMENTOUS event in the motoring world is scheduled for next month—the story will be released in…
THE completion of the new Swansea Computer Centre has unfortunately resulted in a simplification of the car logbook and the…
DAVID HOWE, of 108 Sheen Road, Richmond, Surrey, who owns a couple of non-supercharged Austin Ulsters and says he regards…
IN the course of 90 very interesting "capsule" road tests of the 1973 American cars, Automobile Quarterly remarks that a…
THE following has been received from Girling Ltd.: "Remember 'Dirling'—the unknown maker of disc brake pads in boxes bearing more…
Brands Hatch, March 18th. BRANDS HATCH'S Race of Champions has, for several years, started the European Formula One season but…
THE REACTION from readers to the article last month asking when you lost interest in Grand Prix racing was quite…
Broadspeed beat the regulations APART FROM a break last year, Broadspeed Engineering, the Southam Warwickshire based team, have been preparing…
Formula Two win for STP-March-BMW A FEW MONTHS ago in the Around and About column we highlighted the forthcoming battle…
The National Motor Museum. As motor museums are in the news at present we went to Beaulieu last month, to…
Mr. John Chamber of Leamington Spa, who is Chairman of the Midland Section of the VCC, writes to say that,…
A section devoted to old car matters VSCC Pomeroy Trophy INTENDED to define the best all-round touring-car of the meeting…
THE first VSCC race meeting of 1973 takes place at Silverstone on April 28th, starting at 12.15 p.m. There will…
A 1923 Austin Chummy, claimed tube older than that in the National Motor Museum, is being restored in South Wales.…
WE ARE as enthusiastic about replicas of historic trials and similar events as we are adverse to replicas of most…
Sir, "Fanfare for Europe" was a tremendous success. For us, it was a symbol of Britain coming in at last—to…
At 36 years old, Lewis Hamilton is approaching the end of his Formula 1 career, so there is a huge amount of intrigue surrounding the length of the latest contract…
Taken from the November 1997 issue of Motor Sport Late in the afternoon of November 22 1963, I was stopped by a policeman and reprimanded for riding my bike at…
Mercedes AMG's Toto Wolff is 45 today. A handy GT racer in the early 2000s, he set a new lap record on the Nürburgring in 2009, his next lap was slightly…
2017 looks set to be a landmark year for Britain's rising sports car stars and at just the right time – a privateer podium is a genuine possibility at Le Mans…