The Vanwall F1 car of the late 1950s is being recreated with six models costing £1.65M excluding VAT. They are likely to form the vanguard of more racing and road cars from the newly established Vanwall Group, whose MD Iain Sanderson pioneered the high performance Lightining GT electric supercar in 2008. … [Read more...]
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#YourRoR with pride this November
Mission Motorsport, The Forces’ Charity, has launched #YourRoR, an initiative to engage and inspire beneficiaries and supporters over Remembrance weekend 6 – 8 November. It replaces the annual Race of Remembrance (RoR) 12-hour endurance race cancelled owing to Covid-19 restrictions, losing the charity £50,000 for beneficiaries. #YourRoR offers a new raft … [Read more...]
Monza finale to WRC as UK round remains unclear
Italy’s ACI Rally Monza will host the final round of the FIA World Rally Championship after being added to the heavily disrupted calendar this year. The asphalt event on 4 - 6 December is based at the famous Monza race circuit near Milan and known as The Temple of Speed, in the north of the country. The itinerary will adopt the FIA WRC’s short format … [Read more...]
Wet welcome back for clubmen
After being one of the first of the UK’s seventeen motor racing circuits to restart motor racing following the enforced COVID-19 lockdown, Castle Combe Racing Club successfully organised five meetings since permit restrictions ended on 30 June, in what has been a weird and truncated 2020 season. The club’s own popular championships – GT, Formula Ford and … [Read more...]
Evans inches closer to WRC crown
Elfyn Evans is on the threshold of making sporting history this weekend. The pace-setting Welshman arrived in Sardinia for the next round of this year’s fiercely-fought FIA World Rally Championship with a sizeable points advantage over his closest rivals. He knows that another strong result could see him move one step closer to being crowned as … [Read more...]
Welshman sets sights on Belgian comeback
Welshman Meirion Evans hasn’t contested a rally since the beginning of February due to the Covid-19 pandemic putting the brakes on motorsport events around the world. But his unplanned enforced break ends Sunday when he contests the Aarova Rally, Belgium. The 25-year old driver was all set to challenge for the Irish Tarmac Rally Championship title this … [Read more...]
Wales’ forests rallying agreement signed
Motorsport UK and Natural Resources Wales have signed a new access agreement to allow competitive four-wheeled rallying for the next three years until 2023. For decades, NRW’s forests have played host to a range of motorsport, working effectively with Motorsport UK to stage events at every level of the sport, from grassroots to the iconic Wales Rally GB – … [Read more...]
Northern Ireland awaits decisions on holding WRC round
Northern Ireland will get UK Government funding if it replaces Wales Rally GB in the WRC calendar, according to media reports this week. The rally following in Ireland is huge and the region has been trying to get the event for a number of years after it has been run in Wales for two decades, moving from South to North Wales in that time. It is cancelled … [Read more...]
Seb faces ‘Ring challenge weekend
British Racing Drivers’ Club Superstar Seb Morris gets his 2020 season back underway this coming weekend, 5th/6th September, when the Nurburgring in Germany hosts round two of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup. Bentley factory driver Morris, from Marford near Wrexham, has been placed with French squad CMR to assist the outfit with its development … [Read more...]
Williams F1 team sold to US business
The struggling Williams F1 team has been sold. Dorilton Capital is a New York-based private investment firm in sectors such as healthcare, engineering and manufacturing and will finance the team which continues with its current racing plans and it also has a separate engineering business. … [Read more...]
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