Rain. For most drivers it’s a nightmare: bad visibility, reduced grip, longer braking distances. The risks increase, and they’re unpredictable. Every cloud of spray could conceal a slow car or…

Motor racing design legend Gordon Murray has split with the McLaren Group, ending an 18-year-long association. "After five world championships and a win at Le Mans, it certainly does rank…

The Minilite MSA Historic Rally Championship got off to a fine start over the opening two events. With around 60 cars competing, split between historic and post-historic classes, the championship…

Lesney's recent "MATCHBOX" miniatures include a 48-to-1 scale 4 1/2-in.-long fluorescent-yellow Dodge dragster, priced at 40p, a Daf platform truck laden with builders' materials, to a scale of 66-to-1, making…

Hyundai will return to the World Rally Championship in 2014, it will reveal at the Paris Motorshow at the end of September. The South Korean firm will compete with its…

It is good news for Austin Seven enthusiasts that the Alta aluminium cylinder head, which was in such demand before the war, is to be put on the market again.…

With two anniversaries to celebrate – 60 years since the track was opened and 10 years since the Revival was started – the 2008 event promises to be better than…

Sir, I was delighted to read "Replica Isn't-Real" in your June issue. It is vital for the future of the entire transport preservation movement that a clear understanding of the…

N.B.—Opinions expressed are those of our correspondents and Motor Sport does not necessarily associate itself with them.—Ed. "Sportomatic"—A Different View Sir, In a number of magazines lately they have been…

Sir, Surely, if the vintage cult is to mean anything, the cars should maintained as nearly as possible in their original form! Such major surgical operations as that on the…

"Without any hesitation I rank it as one of the only six cars I would personally have in my own garage."—Robert Glenton, writing of the Fiat 500F in The Sunday…

Sir Are we lowly readers proffered the belief that the professional contributors to publications such as MOTOR SPORT did not equate the realities behind the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix shunt.…