Having written at some length about the Brooklands Model, or Super Sports, Austin Seven in Motor Sport for October 1968, it seems worthwhile devoting a little space to the Riley Nine…

The Competition Manager of a firm interested in racing has an interesting but hectic career. His job is to sign on the best drivers— like Keith Prowse with theatre tickets,…

A reader drew my attention to "Letters From a Traveller" by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (Collins, 1962). Father Teilhard was a Jesuit priest and a leading palaeontologist and geologist of…

November 29th, 1958.  On the last Saturday in November four members of the Trojan O.C. assembled in Petersfield, at an hotel at which some excellent pre-war trials used to finish, we remember,…

Forrest Lycett’s 8-litre Bentley was probably the ultimate road-racing car of its era. Bill Boddy recalls its achievements and those of its remarkable owner The 8-litre Bentley campaigned by the…

Unusual A.M. Some time ago Stanley Race sent us the accompanying photograph of a most intriguing Aston-Martin owned by W. F. McNab Meredith Of Preston. Outwardly it looks like a 1936 1 1/2-litre…

• Group 1 racing makes the grade At the beginning of the year there was optimistic speculation about the forthcoming season of Group 1 saloon-car racing. The optimism seems to…

On the one-make club magazine front, the Singer OC has a Golden Jubilee issue with very good coverage of all that has happened to it from 1951 to 2001. And…

A Personal Interview with Raymond Mays about the British Grand Prix and the future of the B.R.M. THE B.R.M.s retrieved their situation, some of us think just in time, by…

The Editor's Annual Discourse on Topical Aspects of the Motoring Scene Do many motorists, in these days of powerful 4-cylinder cars, ever regret their earlier mounts ? Personally, I still…

Following on its Jubilee celebrations, the Vintage SCC ran its second Silverstone Race Meeting of 1984 on July 14th, with more races in the day than ever before, and a…

A year ago Motor Sport published an article on the history of the Lancia by K. Foeman and this, with a letter relating to it from the Editor of the…