Following a meeting in Paris in mid-October, the organisers of the Peking to Paris Motoring Challenge, scheduled to start from Peking in June 1982, have decided to re-route the event due…

If any of you are waiting for delivery of a new Lotus and it's arrival has been inexplicably delayed, it may be that we are to blame. The day that…

Short Staffed Motor Sport will be a bit understaffed on the road-test front for the next few weeks. Not because we are cutting down on employees or cannot afford the…

Pre-war motor racing will forever be associated with the scent of Castrol-R engine oil, mingled with the fuel fumes of those times. Burnt 'R' is intended, of course, and it…

Sir, I've no doubt that your May editorial concerning "Computer Confusion" has spurred many an owner of pre-war motor-cars into putting pen to paper expressing their frustrations whilst attempting to…

Winning contributions Sir, Harold Ross, founding editor of The New Yorker, required two things of his contributors: their pieces must be interesting and well written. Most magazines and virtually all…

(continued from September issue) AT THE beginning of August 1917, the writer of these diaries, whom I am calling X, had been motoring about in a 1915 Rolls-Royce and he…

After a professional international career of ten years, three times World Champion John Young Stewart announced his retirement from active racing at a recent Press conference in London. He is leaving…

This former Aston Martin sports-car driver died in February, aged 88. Although better known for his test and development skills, Fairman contested 12 GPs over a nine-year period, taking fourth…

Comment on the Racing and Club Scene New Competition Chief at Ford Following the promotion of Stuart Turner to Managing Director of Ford's Advanced Vehicle Operations, Ford have appointed Peter…

Sir, Your article 'Stranger than Fiction" in the October edition refers to a bogus entry in the 1995 Brighton Run. This prompts me to pose the question as to what…

The Moss accident Sir, I am sure many readers will join me in expressing extreme disgust at the decision of the "popular" newspaper Editors to publish those dreadful pictures of…