Three manufacturers participate in the 2025 World Rally Championship, Toyota Gazoo based in Jyvaskyla Finland, Hyundai Mobis Shell centered in Alzenau Germany and M-Sport Ford Cockermouth, situated in the NW corner of UK’s idyllic Lake District. So it was with great anticipation that I turned off the rural A594 into the impressive portals of Dovenby Hall … [Read more...]
Motorsport
Rally Hungary opens gravel events in ERC
Hungary this week welcomes the second round of the 2025 FIA European Rally Championship, providing the 65-strong field their first experience of gravel. FIA European Rally Championship action switches to Hungary this weekend with the country preparing to host the first of three gravel events in a row from 9 - 11 May. Six years on from staging one of the … [Read more...]
Toyota Gazoo Racing landmark Island win
Kalle Rovanperä claimed an emphatic victory at the head of an outstanding 1-2-3-4 finish for Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team on Rally Islas Canarias on Sunday. The fourth round of the 2025 FIA World Rally Championship was also good for Welshman Elfyn Evans who retains his lead in the series but with a reduced margin. Based on the island of Gran … [Read more...]
75th anniversary of first World Championship F1
Next month marks the 75th anniversary of the very first official FIA World Championship Formula 1 Grand Prix. Staged at a sunny Silverstone on Saturday 13 May 1950, it was a momentous sporting milestone and this summer’s Silverstone Festival (22-24 August) will be paying tribute to its incredible legacy. The new World Championship introduced a points … [Read more...]
New island rally adventure awaits Toyota Gazoo Racing
Toyota Gazoo Racing World Rally Team will encounter new terrain when Rally Islas Canarias plays host to a round of the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time this week 24-27 April. The island of Gran Canaria, located off the coast of north-west Africa, is the venue for round four of the 2025 season and can be considered to be the first pure … [Read more...]
Guild of Motoring Writers jamboree
Each year I look forward to the Guild of Motoring Writers track day at Castle Combe circuit on the fringe of the glorious Cotswolds in leafy Wiltshire. Initially formed in 1944 by a group of Fleet Street motoring hacks as a dining club, such was the enthusiasm of the new membership that its remit quickly became wider ranging and at the AGM December 1946, … [Read more...]
FIA Junior WRC champion storms to Carlisle Stages win
Reigning FIA Junior WRC champion Romet Jürgenson claimed his maiden Probite British Rally Championship win on Saturday, storming to the Carlisle Stages victory in spectacular fashion across a dry and dusty Kielder Forest. The Estonian M-Sport ace and co-driver Siim Oja set the fastest time on all but one stage to claim the win over round one victors William … [Read more...]
Trackday teaser opens 75th anniversary year
Starting its glorious 75th season of motor racing, Castle Combe previewed its 2025 calendar at a Media & Track Day organised by Castle Combe Racing Club, giving drivers and teams an opportunity to test cars and meet motorsport journalists, before the season starts in earnest at Howards Day, Easter Monday 21 April. It was eighty-five years ago in 1940 … [Read more...]
Welshman in race against time and rivals
Welsh rally driver James Williams and his Orange Amps Rally Team have a mountain to climb this week as they fight to repair and re-prep their Hyundai i20 Rally2 ahead of the next round of the Probite British Rally Championship this weekend. The 27-year-old last weekend embarked on a European adventure, as he and his team contested Rally Sierra Morena - the … [Read more...]
Nominations invited for motoring heroes
The Royal Automobile Club is once again on the hunt for the present-day heroes of Britain’s historic motoring and motorsport worlds. Last year’s double award for restoration went to the 1939 ERA E-Type GP2 (Tip Top Engineering) aimed to bring back to competitive life an important historic racer and the 1927 Bentley 3 Litre with Boat Tail body (Julian … [Read more...]
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