Sir Your delightful article comparing the running costs of a helicopter to a sports car prompts me to dust down my pen. How I wish I could ponder such a…

What funny things the publicity people get up to! When Ford organised their Main Dealer presentations of the Escort to customers they were faced with providing drinks which would liven…

FIA World Championship Yearbook 1988 edited by Bob Constanduros. 240pp. 121/4" x 91/4". (Grid Publishing, Hampstead Road, London NW1 7QQ. £18.95) Large-format annuals of the Autocourse genre become more numerous…

Rough road enthusiasm Victor Gauntlett, already heading Aston Martin and Pace Petroleum, has a new enthusiasm in life. Recently, through the medium of Pace Petroleum he decided to back the…

A capacity entry of 80 cars and 40 motorbikes will contest the inaugural Cholmondeley Pageant of Power on August 9/10, competing on a 1.2-mile sprint course in the grounds of…

Although competition motoring came to an end over three years ago, it is still possible to picture quite vividly John Bolster driving his four-engined Bolster Special "Bloody Mary" round the…

Sir, I note that in your report of the Brighton run last year you state that "it is nice to record that more engines seem to be on tube ignition…

Sir, Regarding Mr. D. J. Dee's letter on soft-tops, as the owner of a Triumph TR6 PI the main reason I was often seen with the hood erected in good…

Sir, I have been reading Motor Sport for 35 years. My initial reaction to the announcement of the changes was that of horror. I decided to 'give it a couple…

News of USAC & SCCA events The past few weeks have seen a good deal of action in three of the United States major motor racing championships. In USAC racing…

The stop-press which Motor Sport published last month of the Jersey Race covered the outstanding features of that rather dismal event and not much remains to be said. The fatal…

Sir, In the 1956 Le Mans race there was a privately entered Jaguar XK140, driven by Peter Bolton and Bob Walshaw. It ran in ninth place but was unfortunately disqualified…