Lewis Hamilton’s inaugural GP winning McLaren will be auctioned at this year’s British GP. Formula 1 together with RM Sotheby’s have announced the 2010 McLaren Mercedes MP4-25A Formula 1 Race Car which began his unequalled championship career in Turkey, has an estimate: $5,000,000 - $7,000,000 value and will be sold on the Saturday afternoon of the race weekend. In keeping with the series of … [Read more...]
Motorsport
Retro Rides return to Goodwood for car lovers
Retro Rides is gearing up for the first Retro Rides Weekender since the easing of the UK lockdown, which will be held over the 29 and 30 May at Goodwood Motor Circuit in Chichester. Featuring a whole host of iconic machinery as static displays and track action, the Retro Rides team has tickets for both days available. Unique paddock displays featuring restomods, rally cars, drift cars and … [Read more...]
Newslines 7 May
The Super SUV Lamborghini Urus’ high-speed record set on the ice of Russia’s Lake Baikal during the Days of Speed in March 2021 has been formally registered by the Russian Automobile Federation, a member of the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile. Russian racer and journalist Andrey Leontyev, 18-time record holder of Days of Speed on Baikal Ice, reached a top speed of 185.17mph from a … [Read more...]
Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship is rolling
Registrations have flooded in for the 2021 Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship with vibrant new class structure designed to attract a wide variety of cars and drivers. This year’s Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship will feature 14 different classes including, by popular demand, a new category for Road Rally cars. With points awarded to the top 22 … [Read more...]
Bennetts British Superbike Championship launches on tv
Ahead of the start of its 2021 season, the Bennetts British Superbike Championship has launched a dedicated channel on Motorsport Network’s OTT platform Motorsport.tv. The channel will bring fans behind-the-scenes of the bike series, delivering insights from the paddock and highlights from every round of the championship. Rider interviews and updates from the world of British Superbikes will … [Read more...]
Leading Welsh automotive engineer dies
Global leading Welsh automotive engineer Prof Richard Parry-Jones CBE has died following an accident at his home on Friday morning. The current chairman of the Welsh Automotive Forum was born in 1951 in Bangor and rose to become Group Vice-President-Global Product Development, Chief Technical Officer and Head of Global R&D Operations at Ford Motor Company with 30,000 engineers and technical … [Read more...]
The Classic gears up for summer spectacular
As the world’s biggest historic motor racing festival, The Classic is an incomparable celebration of motoring nostalgia featuring mind-boggling numbers of automotive legends from both road and track. For a long three-day weekend in high summer, Silverstone’s paddocks are packed with unrivalled multitudes of retro race cars all revving up to renew old rivalries. Meanwhile, the … [Read more...]
Racing lines 15 April
Bentley is testing renewable fuels for future models. It will evaluate the green biofuel petrol in its Continental GT3 Pikes Peak hillclimb car in June, as the luxury car maker seeks alternatives to battery power adoption in future ranges. The Two Rivers Tour rally planned by Forresters CC for the end of May has been postponed. Uncertainty over when Welsh Government Coronavirus Rules … [Read more...]
Tom chases glory like famous father
Junior drivers and co-drivers will benefit from impressive Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship incentives. Tom Llewellin says that winning a test drive in an R5 car was an “incredible experience” – and that magnificent prize is once again up for grabs to the winning Junior driver in this year’s Motorsport UK Pirelli Welsh National Rally Championship. The talented … [Read more...]
Prodrive & Lewis Hamilton X44 Team join forces
The world-leading motorsport business founded by Welshman Dave Richards is partnering with Lewis Hamilton's X44 Team to run at each round of the five-race Extreme series this year. X44 will take its followers on a journey of discovery, to show first-hand how human actions are damaging the planet, racing electric vehicles in five remote locations that are already damaged or severely under threat … [Read more...]