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Matters of moment, September 1980
Ministerial Madness It seems absolutely astonishing that any Government, and especially the Conservative Government, can be SO stupid and unfair as…

Ministerial Madness It seems absolutely astonishing that any Government, and especially the Conservative Government, can be SO stupid and unfair as…
Renault all the way Knittelfeld, August 17th Following one week after the German GP most teams arrived at Osterreichring with the…
The MCC will be running their 58th Edinburgh Trial on October 4th and 5th. The action will be taking place in the…
Unfortunately clashing with the VSCC Donington Park Race Meeting, the final round of this historic car championship will be taking place at…
Schuler Presses have been offering various options for Range-Rovers for some time, varying from superior interior trim to uprated suspensions, from quad-lamps…
Enthusiasts for this very successful trials car are well catered for by the Dellow Register, an organisation founded in 1969 by…
The unlucky get the luck Hockenheimring, August 10th With a four-week break since the British Grand Prix the 1980 season…
With four weeks between the British GP and the German GP, due to the latter event being moved from August 3rd…
[Before the war regular aviation articles were published in Motor Sport and in view of the interest still shown in vintage and…
Sir, In the summer of 1913, when I was just 16 years old, I managed to get into the aeroplane…
I like to see one Air Display a year and what better than the one at Shobdon, run by the Herefordshire…
Continued from the August issue Towards the end of May 1917, as was recorded last month, X, as I am calling the…
Pioneer air fleet Sir, In view of your most interesting series "Wartime Diaries elan RFC officer", I wonder if your readership can…
Among industries suffering from a lack of skilled manpower, the helicopter industry, according to the Royal Aeronautical Society, is a particular…
"Brooklands Bikes in the Twenties". by Peter Hartley. 244 pp. 81/2" x 5" (Argue Books Ltd, Argus House, 14 St.…
A section devoted to old-car matters Mascots Another reason for visiting Mr. Lowndes (see page 1179, last month) was to look at the splendid collection…
Too late to report in last month's issue, the VSCC Hawthorn Trophy Meeting at Silverstone was well water-logged, torrential rain falling for…
Desert ghosts Sir, You enquire in your July issue what became of the "Allenby" Silver Ghost which featured in…
Sunday, August 3rd In contrast to the last three years, the VSCC's annual pilgrimage to the Cotswolds for their Prescott Hillclimb was…
More about books "The Flight of the Mew Gull" by Alex Henshaw. 310 pp. 83/4'' x 51/2''. (John Murray Ltd., 50 Albemarle Street, London,…
How a chance meeting with Kurt Ahrens Jr revealed a remarkable photo of Jim Clark There's a small but very special photograph in this month’s issue of Motor Sport, showing…
Eleven vehicle debuts, eight anniversaries and special Bentley, McLaren F1 and electric car classes ensure a packed line-up at The Quail later this month This year's The Quail includes 11…
Dunlop is the only hardware company that has been in GPs since the beginning but now it’s gone, so this is a good time to look back at its greatest season, when Wayne Rainey and Kevin Schwantz duelled for the 1991 500cc world championship
Pol Espargaró has raced in MotoGP for ten years, always using his spectacular, maximum-risk riding style, so why does he ride like that, how does he use kerbs for traction control and how has downforce aero changed everything for riders?