Veteran TV anchorman Steve Rider will return to the British Touring Car Championship this year to front ITV’s expanded coverage. Rider, who previously hosted the channel’s Formula 1 show, returns…

Unhappily, the Irish outlook is none too bright. Permision has been obtained to run the Ulster Trophy races on Methanol fuel or other uncontrolled spirit. This rules out the handicap…

Cuth Harrison's Harford wins by one point from B. H. Dees'  P.A.B. Special ("Click to Zoom" for pictures indicated.) Trials of the slime-storming kind are now a highly specialised branch…

Last month a reader suggested that in the 'Phi-Phi' Etancelin article I had deprived this driver of his final placings. In fact, old WB has not quite 'lost his marbles';…

Sir, Your informant's memory is playing tricks if he can only recall black and blue Ford Pilots (A Family's Cars, Motor Sport, December 1987). The relevant owners' club can, no…

We hear... The Foy steel light car, referred to last month, has been broken up, but a new crop of  "discoveries" comes from Norfolk. These include a Rugby tourer, a…

Last month we made our usual beginning-of-the-season visit to Cooper's Garage at Surbiton and found the production of Cooper-Specials in full swing, as usual. Two Cooper 500s were ready for…

The Nash-Healey was the first of the post-war Anglo-American hybrids, presaging various Allards, the AC Cobra, Ford GT40 and 71/R Griffith, as well as more refined vehicles from Bristol, Gordon-Keeble…

Memoirs of a Racing Man by Jo Ramírez.  ISBN184425 238 8, published by Haynes, £18.99 In the introduction to this book, Ramírez tells us that on his last day at McLaren,…

Sir, John Hickman enquires (Readers' Letters, October) whether the 212 European Hillclimb Championship-winning Ferrari driven by Peter Schetty still exists I am sure that it does! At the end of…

Although details are yet to be confirmed, a classic race meeting is likely to be run at Rockingham over the weekend of May 25/26 next year. An enhanced repeat of…

A news item which got squeezed-out last year but is worth reporting concerns Phillippe le Breton (erstwhile Bailliol) who landed in England from Mauritius and, needing spares for a special…