The biggest and best ever collection of Ayrton Senna cars will be one of the standout highlights at this month’s Silverstone Festival 23-25 August. Staged at the circuit where the legendary Brazilian, who died 30 years ago, won more races than anywhere else, the very special display will feature more than 25 exhibits spanning Senna’s entire career from teenage karting right up to his three FIA … [Read more...]
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Inaugural Welsh Motorsport & Supercar Festival
Pembrey Circuit will host the inaugural Welsh Motorsport & Supercar Festival on Sunday 22 September, exactly 31 years to the day since the late Brazilian F1 racing driver Ayrton Senna set the fastest lap around the home of Welsh motorsport. It was widely reported at the time that Senna broke the Pembrey lap record in 1988, less known however is that the team returned five years later to test … [Read more...]
Lavish, leviathan and luxurious – Goodwood Festival of Speed
Goodwood’s energetic Media Centre is always an interesting place to be, meeting old friends from the press corps but for sure the biggest challenge facing reporters is the bewildering level of information generated at this unique and idiosyncratic British motoring event. It was Sunday 20th June 1993 that Goodwood’s first Festival of Speed started as a speculative notion and now thirty-one years … [Read more...]
Newslines 15 July
Former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone hid £1.35m in trusts from HMRC in the year beginning April 6, 2015 and was handed a penalty of the same amount. The details are revealed in the latest list of deliberate tax defaulters published by HMRC. Rail, bus and road services will be disrupted in Cardiff on Wednesday when some city centre access will be restricted for fans attending the Noel Gallagher … [Read more...]
Lotus 72 stars in F1 Exhibition
The Formula 1 Exhibition has announced F1’s most successful car, the legendary Lotus Type 72, will be on display at the new London show opening on 23 August at ExCeL London. The first car to be announced at the new venue, the Lotus Type 72 is widely regarded as the most successful race car design in history and one of the greatest F1® cars of all time, with its slick aerodynamic profile and … [Read more...]
Newslines 10 June
The Volkswagen Group is entering a new business segment with the Elli charging and energy brand and will develop, build and operate large-scale stationary storage systems together with partners along the value chain. The largest projects in the Elli project pipeline currently have a capacity of up to 350 MW and a storage capacity of 700 MWh, which will almost double the total storage capacity … [Read more...]
Race Car of the Century poll votes are in
The votes have been cast and the numbers have been crunched but the world will have to wait until Tuesday 2 July to find out the final result to the ultimate ‘Race Car of the Century’ poll. To celebrate its 100th anniversary, Motor Sport magazine has conducted a definitive ballot to reveal the greatest competition car of the last century. Nearly ten thousand votes have been cast and … [Read more...]
Silverstone’s tribute to Senna at this year’s festival
Revving up for the very special tribute display of Ayrton Senna’s race cars at this summer’s Silverstone Festival, current Formula 1 driver, Pierre Gasly, was recently at Silverstone putting the Brazilian’s first-ever F1 car through its paces. Senna made his Grand Prix debut 40 years ago in the history-making Toleman TG183B back in 1984 and also scored his maiden World Championship points in … [Read more...]
First female cohort of F1 hopefuls announced
A global independent motorsport initiative with a mission to find and develop the first female F1 world champion, More than Equal, has announced the inaugural female driver cohort joining its pioneering Driver Development Programme. Following an extensive global search and a rigorous selection process, the inaugural cohort (below) will consist of: Ivonn Simeonova (Austria), Katrina Thung … [Read more...]
How a rogue sponsor took Formula One for a ride
Motor racing creates a glamorous aura and attracts some dubious characters. Some that spring to mind include Sidney Miller – one of several aliases – of Southern Organs fame who sponsored anything that moved in national motor racing during the mid-1970’s including a singleton Surtees F1 entry at Silverstone. Then there was charismatic David Thieme of Essex Petroleum, with trademark goatee beard, … [Read more...]
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