"Speed Camera," by E. S. Tomkins. (Foulis, 10s. 6d.) We have sometimes claimed that we are motoring enthusiasts who write rather than journalists who motor. In the same way, reading…

Points as of September 21, 2009 1. Colin Turkington BTCC 201pts The only Silver Star-qualifying races left in the BTCC are the rounds at Brands Hatch on October 4. As…

In Full Flight by Tony Spooner, DSO, DFC. 267 pp. 8-1/2 x 6in. Wingham Press, Seymour Place, 28 High Street, Wingham, Kent, CT3 1AB. £15.00) This is a revised edition…

Sir, With reference to the letter from a Mr. Prior of Daventry in the September issue of Motor Sport under the heading "Unmarked Police Cars", I should like to make…

Sir, I was very interested to read the various letters that appeared in the February issue of Motor Sport in reply to your article on the Austin Twenty, which you…

The Racing Car Show still continues to gain stature particularly since the SMMT joined forces with BRSCC to run this now bi-annual gathering at Olympia. The coming show commences on…

"Brooklands Bikes in the Twenties". by Peter Hartley. 244 pp. 81/2" x 5" (Argue Books Ltd, Argus House, 14 St. James Road, Watford, Herts. £6.95) After Peter Hartley had written and…

Pentti Airikkala Pentti Airikkala, the bespectacled, mischievous Finnish rally driver who lived in England, finally lost his battle with cancer in September. Like so many of his contemporaries, Pentti started…

Sir, I was very interested to read, in the May issue of Motor Sport, the interview with Max Mosley. and in particular his comments about enthusiasts and Formula One I…

Sir, Your interesting article on the Freiburg-Schauinsland hillclimb stirred the memory. In 1957 I stayed in Freiburg on a school trip (my mother phoned our hotel to tell me that…

Six hours round Silverstone in a 62,000-mile-old Datsun 240Z It is said that International motor racing has become the preserve of millionaires. If that is so, the impecunious Spike Anderson…

We regret to learn of the death of Denis Evans, who with his brother Kenneth and sister Doreen before the war formed the very well known Belleview garage racing team,…