CELEBRATING 70 YEARS OF AUTOSPORT

“It will be our aim to publish details of every event and item of news that is bang up-to-the-minute. Space will be devoted to every aspect of the Sport, from the Grandes Epreuves, to the most unambitious of local club events. We shall feature personalities, their activities and their cars.”

That is how Autosport founding editor Gregor Grant introduced the magazine 70 years ago this week, in the inaugural issue on 25 August 1950. In the intervening seven decades, some elements have come and gone (and come back again) – such as the coverage of trials, sprints and drag racing, and road car