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Matters of Moment, May 1972
Independent, or not? The heading applies, not to whether or not Britain should become a member of the EEC but…

Independent, or not? The heading applies, not to whether or not Britain should become a member of the EEC but…
May means Indianapolis In the American World of motor racing the month of May means just one race—the Indianapolis 500—held…
Third successive win for Ickx and Andretti Brands Hatch, April 16th. Ferrari's complete domination of the first year of 3-litre…
[By means of which the Continental Correspondent, while he is motoring abroad, keeps in touch with the Editor.] Dear W.B.,…
After the first three rounds of Shell Super Oil Formula Three Championship, the qualifying races of which count for the…
Interserie In 1970 the Germans and neighbouring countries dreamed up a new form of racing modelled on the Canadian-American series…
Unsophisticated, crude. rugged, sweaty, even primitive; these are adjectives which, on the face of it, can hardly be considered complimentary.…
Sir, I feel I must write and correct a statement made on page 266 of March, 1972 Motor Sport leader…
Small cars were not unknown in Wales in the vintage years, what with things like the London-Holyhead Trial and the…
Surfblazer, in conjunction with Olympic Holidays, their Greek distributors, provided a small party of journalists with a three days' introduction…
A fantastic opportunity for a world-wide motor racing trip is being offered exclusively to Motor Sport readers in October by…
"Thruxton's not quite so demanding on brakes as Oulton Park, though when you use them use them hard, like anchoring…
Fast new Hillman The past couple of months have seen the introduction of new or revised models from all the…
Why the new cars are unreliable The new season of Formula Two racing has started with a bang —mainly in…
Comment on the Racing and Club Scene What's happening in Formula Ford Formula Ford, the category of racing Introduced in…
A Section Devoted to Old-Car Matters Land's End to John o'Groats by Austin Seven. —At Easter 83 Austin 7s undertook…
Rolls-Royce Armoured Cars Sir, Noting the interest in Vintage Postbag of First War vehicles, I am enclosing a photograph taken…
A reader loaned us an interesting collection of photographs from the archive, of the Ulster Transport Museum in Belfast taken…
170 bhp Broadspeed BDA under the bonnet A few issues ago I looked into the possibilities of further developing the…
Sebring, March 25th. It is a strange quirk of the International calendar that two of the World Manufacturers Championship events…
A couple of weekends ago I made the trip north for the Classic Sports and Saloons race at Knockhill. It’s not often that our MGB gets an outing, what with…
James Hunt's finest race? From start to well beyond the finish, controversy dogged the 1976 British Grand Prix but the Brands Hatch display was a great drive from the home favourite
If you’re good enough, you’re old enough. It’s an old motor racing cliché, but one that has rung true over the years for the likes of Kimi Räikkönen, Fernando Alonso,…
The final Daytona 24 Hours-winning Porsche 962 is set to be auctioned. Here’s its story Right car, right time. That was how Michael Cotton described Derek Bell’s Daytona 24 Hours…