This weekend’s eagerly-anticipated 30th birthday edition of The Classic 30 July – 1 August will be the biggest and best in the festival’s outstanding history with record grids, record classic car displays, record anniversary circuit parades and record ticket sales plus epic levels of very welcome entertainment for the whole family. “It’s the high-octane, fun-fuelled event that we’ve all been … [Read more...]
Racing
Goodwood Festival gets go-ahead
Goodwood Festival of Speed will now form part of the Events Research Programme (ERP) as a pilot event and will take place as planned from Thursday 8 - Sunday 11 July. The event is sold out across Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The capacities agreed with the ERP will mean that all 2021 Festival of Speed ticket, hospitality and grandstand pass holders will be able to attend as planned, … [Read more...]
Looking back at historic Welsh racer
Unlike best-selling blockbuster novels, specialized books on niche subjects tend to trickle off bookshop shelves over a far longer period of time, so it was perhaps not unusual to receive a fresh new copy of Cyril Kieft’s definitive racing biography some sixteen years after it was first launched in 2005. Despite the delay, this authorized biography, proved a thoroughly absorbing read which … [Read more...]
You can take Lewis Hamilton’s place for over $5,000,000
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Racing lines 25 March
Nissan's made a long-term commitment to the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship racing through to the end of season twelve 2025-2026 of the all-electric racing series. Nissan joined the series in season five as the only Japanese manufacturer. The Gen3 era of the championship begins in season nine — the 2022-23 season — and will feature even more powerful and faster cars. Nissan races … [Read more...]
Welsh car’s F1 safety role
The St Athan made Aston Martin DBX SUV will be adapted as the F1 medical car when the 2021 championship opens in Bahrain at the end of this month. An adapted and highly tuned Vantage sports car will run ahead of the racers as a safety car when directed by race control. Tobias Moers, Chief Executive Officer of Aston Martin Lagonda said, "Together with the whole company, I am extremely … [Read more...]
