Bowler Motors, the off-road performance specialist, has revealed the Land Rover Defender rally car that will compete in its own championship in 2022. The Bowler Defender Challenge is based on the Land Rover Defender 90 with a 300PS Ingenium 2.0-litre turbocharged petrol engine. Bowler uses its long experience of competition to transform it into a rally car with a full roll cage, modified … [Read more...]
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The Classic returns to captivate car lovers this weekend
This weekend’s eagerly-anticipated 30th birthday edition of The Classic 30 July – 1 August will be the biggest and best in the festival’s outstanding history with record grids, record classic car displays, record anniversary circuit parades and record ticket sales plus epic levels of very welcome entertainment for the whole family. “It’s the high-octane, fun-fuelled event that we’ve all been … [Read more...]
Book review: Blue Lemon – Rallying for the Buzz by Phillip Haslam
This rather elegant coffee-table book tells the fascinating story of Phillip and Yvonne Haslam's induction into historic rallying, a hobby that subsequently beguiled and converted them into seasoned and serial competitors on some of the most exotic and daunting historic endurance rallies on the calendar, says Ken Davies. Some 100 rallies through 58 countries totalling over 200,000 hard-fought … [Read more...]
Stars, cars, rain and sun – Goodwood FoS returned
Following its enforced 2020 sabbatical, the Mastercard Goodwood Festival of Speed returned with a bang – including daily pyrotechnics – last week after being chosen as a pilot event by the UK Government's Event Research Programme, writes Ken Davies. Adding credibility to this decision, the Right Hon Oliver Dowden MP, Secretary of State for Culture, Media, and Sport paid a visited the Festival on … [Read more...]
WRC Promoter secures European Rally Championship
WRC Promoter has been awarded the commercial rights to promote the FIA European Rally Championship in a multi-year agreement beginning in 2022. The Munich-based company has added an unprecedented fourth FIA series to its burgeoning business portfolio, having managed the commercial rights to the FIA World Rally Championship since 2013. In February, the two parties also agreed to work together to … [Read more...]
Edwards marks triumphant return of Welsh rallying
Welsh rallying successfully returned to the forests, with Matt Edwards scoring a sensational victory on the 2021 Nicky Grist Stages at the weekend. Matt Edwards and Darren Garrod took their Yuasa Rally Team Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 to a hard fought victory on the 2021 Nicky Grist Stages, and in doing so take the lead of the British Rally Championship. They were fourth … [Read more...]
Ford Puma hybrid WRC challenger unveiled
The M-Sport Ford World Rally Team today revealed for the first time a prototype of the new Puma Rally car that will help usher in an exciting new era of electrified competition in the FIA World Rally Championship from 2022. Making its global public debut at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the M‑Sport Ford Puma Rally features a next-generation hybrid powertrain that seamlessly combines the … [Read more...]
Nicky Grist Stages is back & being streamed
After a 518 day enforced break caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, the Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship roars back into action next weekend at the Nicky Grist Stages on Saturday 10 July– where one of the largest number of championship contenders will be gunning for points in their pursuit of title success.Covid-19 restrictions have seen motorsport in Wales halted, barring a … [Read more...]
Motor Sport reprieved from new insurance law
Vehicles intended exclusively for motorsport will be excluded from new Motor Insurance rules, known by some as the VNUK law. For seven years a European Court of Justice ruling threatened the entire sport and business of motorsport in the UK and Europe but has now changed its mind and this positive result comes after years of pro-active lobbying by the FIA, the Motorsport Industry Association … [Read more...]
British attempt on electric motor-bike speed record
White Motorcycle Concepts has unveiled a revolutionary 250mph-plus pure electric prototype motorcycle. Company founder and Chief Executive Officer Rob White will use it in attempts to break both the British and world electric land speed records over the next 12 months in Britain and Bolivia. The WMC250EV high-speed demonstrator, White’s brainchild, is more than two years in the … [Read more...]
