The annnual pilgrimage of devotees of the pre-war racing scene to Brooklands always produces some colourful personalities and exotic historic machinery. Although there were no "Babs" or Napier Railton, this…

One of the products of Jaguar's recent drive to improve quality and reliability is the latest version of the XJS coupe (above), dubbed "H.E." for "high efficiency". The basic format…

John Watson's McLaren MP4 (leading, above) sweeps downhill onto Dijon's "Grand Prix loop" ahead of Carlos Reutemann's Williams FW07C, Hector Rebaque's Brabham BT49C and Rene Arnoux's turbo. Below, the sleek…

Gilles Villeneuve's Ferrari 126CK heads the queue of cars battling for the lead of the Spanish Grand Prix at Jarama. He is persued by Jacques Laffite's Talbot-Matra JS17, John Watson's…

A jubilant John Watson holds aloft his British Grand Prix trophy to the applause of Jacques Laffite and the crowd after his highly popular victory at Silverstone at the wheel…

Jean Claude Andruet (above) guided his Ferrari 308 GTB to victory on the Belgian classic 24 Hours of Ypres Rally, Bernard Beguin's Porsche 911SC (below left) finished the event in…

Johnny Herbert reckons Michael Schumacher has a sense of humour and Formula Ford is rubbish. He's not through with racing and wants a stab at NASCAR Have you ever spoken…

The picture on page 44 of last month's issue has had a lot of people guessing, with many frustrated enthusiasts telephoning with their ideas of what it might have been.…

On one extreme: Monaco. On the other: forests on the RAC Rally. Somewhere in between: road racing in Ireland These evocative photos from the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix were sent…

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Targa timing Sir, While returning from the Australian MotoGP race recently, l had the excellent experience of sitting next to Sandro Munari on the long flight from Melbourne to Europe. One…

Koni, makers of those excellent shock-absorbers, have a 16 mm. colour film, which runs for 30 minutes with magnetic recess-type sound track, and shows how Konis work, how they are…