A decision on Welsh Government underwriting half the cost of the Circuit of Wales racetrack faces yet another delay as ministers accused developers of providing "inaccurate" information. The company behind it has asked for a £210m taxpayer-funded guarantee, about half the cost of the scheme after getting over £9 M initial project costs, and said it had responded to every question on a "complex … [Read more...]
Motorsport
Racing lines 18 May
Mid Wales racing driver Ben Power has extended his lead in the MRF National Legends Car Championship after winning three races in the two-day meeting at Cadwell Park, Lincolnshire. Power, aged 27, from Guilsfield, near Welshpool, won both of Saturday’s heats and the second race on Sunday to give him a 130pts lead in the series this season. WRC Promoter has strengthened its FIA World Rally … [Read more...]
Mid-Wales battle looms for Plains honours
Competitors in Wales’s premier rally championship will be in Welshpool on Saturday 13 May for round 3 of the series, the Plains Rally. With the opening round of the Pirelli MSA Welsh Forest Rally Championship cancelled due to adverse weather conditions and competitors able to discount their worst result of the season, everything is up for grabs and the eventual champions may have yet to score … [Read more...]
Rule-breakers celebrated at Goodwood FoS
The 2017 Goodwood Festival of Speed Presented by Mastercard, will take place from 29 June to 2 July. Amongst a glittering array of cars and motorcycles from around the world, this year the festival will celebrate racing machines that were so fast, powerful, expensive or complicated that the rules had to be changed to rein them in. This year’s theme – ‘Peaks of Performance – Motorsport’s … [Read more...]
Welsh drivers’ outstanding performances celebrated
Demon driver Elfyn Evans almost pulled off his first WRC win in Argentina at the weekend while Tom Cave set the pace for most of the Pirelli Rally in Northern Britain. Rally Argentina had it all: more twists than The Da Vinci Code, gravel roads rougher than the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and a spectacular finish tenser than a violin bow, with Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville winning by … [Read more...]
Racing lines 4 May
Team Parker Racing’s Rick Parfitt Jnr and Welsh-driver Seb Morris claimed victory in British GT’s third round of the season at Rockingham at the weekend, after their race finished. They took top place on the podium after a post-race penalty for gaining an unfair advantage dropped Spirit of Race’s winners-on-the-road Duncan Cameron and Matt Griffin to second. … [Read more...]
Straightliners aiming for Pendine this month
Straightliners annual UK, European and World land speed event will take place at Pendine in mid-May. Straightliners Pendine event is the European version of the iconic Bonneville Salt Flats in the USA speed record meeting but without the very high cost of getting there for Europeans. At this event on 13 & 14 May, participants and spectators will see some of the unusual custom built … [Read more...]
Wales host Multistrada Enduro this week
The Multistrada 1200 Enduro Experience will be heading to South Wales from the 5 - 7 May as part of the Touratech Travel event in Ystradgynlais, Swansea. It will be the first time that the course dedicated to off road riding has taken place outside Italy and UK riders will get the chance to try it for free! The Multistrada 1200 Enduro Experience truck containing fifteen Multistrada 1200 … [Read more...]
Censure over Circuit of Wales spending
Wales Audit Office said there were "significant shortcomings" in the way £9.3 Million of taxpayers' money was spent on plans for Circuit of Wales at Ebbw Vale. Funding was based on a "flawed" appraisal by Welsh Government said the public finance watchdog. Welsh Government said it was “disappointed” by the report as it considers whether to underwrite over £200 Million of investment to create … [Read more...]
Welsh rallymen eye Pirelli International podium
Welsh rallying's rising stars Tom Cave and James Morgan will debut the Hyundai i20 R5 this weekend. The action-packed Prestone MSA British Rally Championship returns next weekend with the famous Pirelli International Rally playing host to the second round of Britain’s premier rallying series. The legendary Kielder Forests await with over 100 gravel miles for the BRC elite and after a … [Read more...]