Adding to the special celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, the Sunday racecard at this summer’s Silverstone Festival (22-24 August) will include the biggest-ever showdown staged for 500cc Formula 3 cars. Back in 1950, when Silverstone had the honour of hosting the first-ever points scoring F1 Grand Prix, a colourful field of pint-sized 500cc cars … [Read more...]
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Death of British Touring Car legend
One of the 1980s legendary drivers, David Brodie, died on Tuesday. Viewed in the pantheon of British motor racing history David Brodie, was an international saloon car racing folk hero, perhaps best known for carrying the iconic script 'Run-Baby-Run' on the front of his Ford Escort 2.1 litre Mk1. He successfully competed in the British Touring Car Championship for four decades and his best … [Read more...]
Racing lines 12 December
Goodwood has published its race list for the 2025 Goodwood Revival 12 to 14 September 2025. Following the groundbreaking success of the 2024 Revival, which became the world’s first historic motorsport event to run all of its 15 races exclusively on sustainable fuel, the 2025 event will continue this initiative and all competitors will be required to use a fuel with a minimum of 70% advanced … [Read more...]
Cupra enters Formula E
CUPRA starts a new chapter in Formula E by joining forces with Kiro Race Co. The new CUPRA KIRO team will fight for the podium in the world’s most prestigious e-racing competition. The unconventional challenger brand will bring its racing DNA to the new team, led by Dan Ticktum and David Beckmann, reinforcing CUPRA’s commitment to support the young talent of the future. The season kicks off … [Read more...]
£300M Ecclestone F1 collection being sold
Former F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone will sell his extraordinary collection of historic Grand Prix and Formula 1 cars amassed over 50 years. Ecclestone, 94, was for decades the commercial rights holder of Formula 1, and was therefore the man who made it the global sporting powerhouse that it is today and has engaged Tom Hartley Jnr Ltd.. It is fair to say that his collection of 69 historic Grand … [Read more...]
Bearman to open Autosport International
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team’s Oliver Bearman will kick-off the most exciting year of his career by opening the Autosport International Show, Europe’s biggest dedicated motorsport exhibition, at the NEC in Birmingham in January. Nineteen year old Bearman, who will embark on his first full season in Formula 1 next year with MoneyGram Haas F1, will cut the ribbon to open ASI at 9am on Saturday January … [Read more...]
Prodrive awarded Diamond Jubilee Trophy
An incredible line-up of motorsport heroes gathered in London as the Royal Automobile Club presented Prodrive with its Diamond Jubilee Trophy last Thursday. The celebratory atmosphere at the Pall Mall Clubhouse reflected the great esteem in which the British company is held, as everyone reminisced into the early hours about 40 years of Prodrive success in rallying, sports-car racing, touring cars … [Read more...]
Welsh racer joins McLaren development programme
Welsh teenager Ella Lloyd has joined the McLaren Driver Development programme. The 19-year-old will drive in Formula E's Women's Test in Valencia, Spain, on 7 November and will then represent McLaren in the 2025 F1 Academy season, in an entry operated by Rodin Motorsport. Lloyd, whose family is from Pontypridd, joins the programme following an impressive British F4 season where she secured four … [Read more...]
Welsh legend races in award winning historic festival
First run 2012, the west country‘s annual historic motor racing extravaganza took place at the popular Castle Combe, Wiltshire circuit last weekend and expanded this year to fill 2 days after winning the Royal Automobile Club’s prestigeous Best Historic Event award in 2023. Even capricious British weather failed to dampen the enthusisam of several thousand hardy spectators who made the weekend … [Read more...]
Goodwood Revival was pure theatre of dreams
Motor racing’s annual offering to the idiosyncratic British knack of successfully combining nostalgia with sublime racing scored again. Goodwood’s Revival meeting provided a 17-race card containing a broad selection of Saloon, Sports, GT and formula cars driven by a cross section of top-class drivers from both historic and modern racing genre. Held in normally sunny Sussex, event shook off wet … [Read more...]
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