A new attempt to create the Circuit of Wales is underway, writes Robin Roberts. The controversial £433M scheme on mountainside overlooking Ebbw Vale was rejected for Welsh Government assistance in June 2017. The original proposers of the 2013 venture failed to secure the confidence of the Welsh Government which had put £9M into studies to turn over 800 acres of mountain moorland into a … [Read more...]
Racing
Morris gets Mercedes-AMG GT4 seat this weekend
Welshman Seb Morris will make a surprise debut in the GT4 European Series at the Hungaroring near Budapest this weekend, where he will stand-in for injured friend, and manager, Andy Meyrick. Replacing Meyrick at Bullitt Racing, where he will share a Mercedes-AMG GT4 with the Spanish squad’s owner Stephen Pattrick, 22-year-old Welshman Morris will make his first ever competitive appearance in … [Read more...]
Racing lines and the life of Terry Sanger
The heady days of 60s & 70s British motor sport and one of its stars are recalled in a new book by a Welsh writer. ‘And you’ll love this one …!’ is the biography of international racing driver Terry Sanger and written by Swansea's Ken Davies about his talented friend and inspirational privateer of the 1960s & 70s. Although an extrovert, West Walian Terry never possessed an … [Read more...]
Welsh driver’s Spa race ends with team-mate crashing
Welsh racer Seb Morris’ dream of battling for a Pro-Am podium on his debut in the Total 24 Hours of Spa last weekend was rightly replaced by heartfelt concern for team-mate Andy Meyrick after a major accident involving the Bentley Continental driver midway through the race. At 3.00am on Sunday morning, Meyrick and the No.666 Lamborghini of Jurgen Krebs were involved in a monumental accident – … [Read more...]
Racing lines 2 August
Recently-formed charity, Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust, was set up to help recognise the invaluable importance airfields have played in the past by erecting memorial marker stones at various key sites around the country. And it’s the turn of Castle Combe Circuit to receive one of these prestigious markers in 2018, which is set to be unveiled at the venue’s Autumn Classic race meeting … [Read more...]
Seb squares up for Spa super-challenge
Blancpain Endurance Cup Pro-Am championship contender Seb Morris is days away from his maiden appearance in the world’s biggest GT3 race, the Total 24 Hours of Spa in Belgium, where the Wrexham-born star believes the No.31 Team Parker Racing squad will be a ‘force to be reckoned with’. Getting underway on Saturday, 28 July, at the unmistakable Spa-Francorchamps, the huge twice-round-the-clock … [Read more...]
Sporting lines 19 July
After winning last year’s Formula Student competition, the Cardiff University team this year could only manage 13thplace. The international challenge competition to design, cost and compete with a single seater racing car attracted nearly 30 university entrants from all over the world and the top team came from Monash University of Australia, who took the title in 2016. … [Read more...]
Pikes Peak VW record, from above
A helicopter view of the new electric car record on Pikes Peak in America is now available on YouTube. Driver Romain Dumas shattered the five year old record set by Sebastien Loeb by 16 seconds and took 7m 57.148s in the 680ps VW sports car up the 12.42m course overlooking Colorado Springs. Just 250 days had passed between the announcement of the Pikes Peak project on 18 October 2017 and the … [Read more...]
Road racers get new track for July
Competitors at this year’s Aberdare Park Road Races will be the first to experience an improved track after Aberaman Motorcycle Club secured funding to resurface the circuit before this year’s meeting on 21 & 22 July, writes Peter Hughes. The park, located just ½ mile from the centre of the South Wales town, first hosted motorcycle racing in 1950 and has since welcomed … [Read more...]
Slick speedy Seb slips into seat with seconds to spare
Ultra-quick endurance racer Seb Morris made a dramatic, and very unexpected, eleventh hour return to the British GT Championship at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit on Sunday where the reigning champion reunited with Rick Parfitt Jnr in the category’s biggest race of the year. With Parfitt Jnr’s regular 2018 team-mate Ryan Ratcliffe sidelined by food poisoning and being prevented from racing by … [Read more...]