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SWEDISH SPORTS CAR GRAND PRIX

JOHN BOLSTER TESTS THE M.G.A COUPE

IN THIS ISSUE

AUSTRALIAN AMPOL TRIAL

NOTTS S.C.C. AT MALLORY PARK

NEW ZEALAND NEWSLETTER

RACING AT LIME ROCK

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AUTOSPORT, AUGUST 16, MOTOR SPORTING WEEKLY

Vol. 15 No. 7

August 16, 1957

Managing Editor GREGOR GRANT

Assistant Editor STUART SEAGER

Road Tests and Technical

JOHN V. BOLSTER

Art Editor

THEO PAGE

Northern Editor FRANCIS N. Ireland

Eire

Western Editor

West Coast

Southwest

South America

Canada

W. A. McMASTER

BARRY MASON

GERARD CROMBAC

ALAN BRUCE

HANS FRIES

RUTH SANDS BENTLEY

GORDON H. MARTIN

JIM HALL

Dr. VICENTE ALVAREZ

JACK O'DONOGHUE

PHOTOGRAPHIC SECTION

Chief and Paddock

Sports News.

The Ampol Trial

GEORGE PHILLIPS

W. K. HENDERSON

MAURICE LOUIS ROSENTHAL

OZZIE Grand Prix

198

Double for Dickson

200

More Silver for Texas

Category Grand Touring.

204

John Bolster Tests the M.G.A Coupé

206

Ring Around the to Yesterday

New Zealand Portrait, No. 32-Pat Faichney

216

218

Wet and Dry

219

Club News

Published every Friday by AUTOSPORT

FORMULA 2

EDITORIAL

193

THERE is reason to suppose that the F.L.A. will be asked

to decree a minimum weight limit of 500 kilogrammes

for Formula 2 machines-a proposal which is being sup-

ported by several delegates. Great Britain, of course.

has not been consulted as to the suggested weight limit-

at least Lotus and Cooper have not been informed. That

such a limit should be imposed without British support

seems ridiculous, as F2 cars in this country far out-

number those in any other part of the world. In fact.

AUTOSPORT would go so far as to say that Scuderia

Ferrari possesses the only completed and genuine F2 car

on the Continent. This car is, of course, much heavier

than any of the British machines which would tend to

handicap it on circuits other than the very fast ones. It

would not be surprising to learn that the weight limit was

suggested by Ferrari. It is hoped that the British dele-

gates to next October's F.I.A. meeting will endeavour

to obtain the support of other countries in opposing a

definite weight limit regulation. It is quite sufficient to

insist on pump fuels and a capacity limit of 1,500 cc.

unsupercharged, without penalizing designers who have

the knowledge and experience to build successful small-

capacity machines with a high power-weight ratio.

RACE COMMENTARIES

A

LETTER in AUTOSPORT has produced a volume of

correspondence on the subject of race commentaries,

a selection of which appears in this issue. The first job

of a motor racing commentator is to convey to the public

a general picture of what is happening in the form of

verbal race bulletins, thus giving information which is not

readily available to the average spectator. No one asks

for more than this; if such information is accurately

presented, without any attempt at embroidery, then the

commentator is doing the job expected of him. A certain

amount of descriptive building-up is often necessary to

produce good listening material but over-dramatization

of relatively unimportant incidents is often adopted to

cover up a lack of really useful information. The

majority of commentators do a good job of work-but

that is what the paying spectator has a right to demand.

otherwise the organizers might as well play a selection

of gramophone records.

INDIANAPOLIS v. NURBURGRING

HE exchange of challenges between American

THE

publisher Floyd Clymer and Juan Fangio may, if

carried into action, go a long way towards bridging the

gulf in understanding that still exists in regard to "big

time" racing on opposite sides of the Atlantic. The

Monza "500" gave Europeans an initiation into the very

high speeds which are commonplace at "Indy", but a

few laps of the Nürburgring would, we feel sure, convince

American sceptics that in virtuosity of driving skill alone,

Fangio deserves his status as World Champion.

OUR COVER PICTURE-

STILL CHAMPION: Pictured by Francis Penn, at the

Karussell during practice for the German Grand Prix,

Juan Manuel Fangio recorded fastest practice lap in his

Maserati and then went on to win the race at an average

speed that exceeded the previous lap record.