Covid-19 has puts the brakes on the Bloodhound Land Speed Record project it was announced today. The multi-million-pound plan to smash 800mph on land to is looking for a new owner to take the team through to setting a new World Land Speed Record in 2022. In 2019, the Bloodhound team deployed out to South Africa to conduct high speed testing of the most advanced straight-line racing car in … [Read more...]
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£100,000 Ford Escorts reborn in Wales
The Welsh car industry has been boosted with the creation of a new manufacturer, MST Cars of North Wales. The motor-sport orientated bespoke builders of Ford Escort Mk1 and Mk2 road, race and rally cars in various specifications from £69,000 to over £100,000 has evolved from its competition parts' business. That was itself a development of its hardware, engineering and automotive … [Read more...]
Morris bows out of Bentley on a high
International GT racer Seb Morris signed-off his career as a factory driver for British manufacturer Bentley with an expectedly competitive performance on his debut outing at Kyalami in South Africa on Saturday during the final round of the series. Teaming with Oliver Jarvis and Alex Buncombe in the customer M-Sport squad’s No.8 Bentley Continental GT3, Welshman Morris - from … [Read more...]
Morris ends frustrating first season with new team
Bentley Continental GT3 racer Seb Morris experienced a frustrating conclusion to the 2020 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season at Paul Ricard in France on Sunday when superb pace went unrewarded following an unfortunate accident for team-mate Nelson Panciatici. While retirement early in hour two of the six-hour race halted a realistic charge towards a deserved top 10 points finish, … [Read more...]
Driving Combe for Christmas ideas
As Lewis Hamilton clinched his seventh World Drivers' F1 Championship crown, Chippenham’s Castle Combe Circuit has unveiled an array of thrilling experience days and gifts aimed at providing local motorsport enthusiasts with presents they’ll never forget this Christmas. The local race track has been a hub of high-speed petrol-infused action for over 70 years now, with its recently-launched … [Read more...]
Morris races to South of France this week
Welsh racer Seb Morris heads to Paul Ricard in the south of France this week for the final round of the GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup season. The Bentley factory ace will be pushing as hard as ever to battle for a big result as his 2020 European campaign draws to a close. Round four, the six-hour 1,000-kilometre Paul Ricard race, carries a lot of importance for the 24-year-old as the … [Read more...]
Newslines 9 November
Vauxhall has released prices and specifications for the new Crossland with order banks now open. The new Crossland will start from £19,060 on-the-road in SE trim, with first customer deliveries of the compact SUV starting in early 2021 with a range of petrol and diesel engines, including automatics. Valmet Automotive is extending the battery plant in Salo, Finland after less than 12 months of … [Read more...]
Seb Morris all go for Greenlight
British Racing Drivers’ Club Superstar Seb Morris has welcomed an exciting development for his professional motor racing career after this week signing with Greenlight Sports Management, the new company established by successful endurance racers Andy Meyrick and Guy Smith. Welshman Morris, a works driver for Bentley Motors, is one of the first to join the GSM stable. Entrusting his burgeoning … [Read more...]
Welshman shrugs off Spa disappointment
Bentley Continental GT3 Welsh racer Seb Morris showcased his customary determination, tenacity and speed at Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium over the weekend, after mounting an impressive recovery with the CMR team during the rain-impacted Total 24 Hours of Spa.With Pierre-Alexandre Jean and Nelson Panciatici in the CMR-run No.107 Bentley, the Wrexham driver Morris battled back impressively from a … [Read more...]
Vanwall is back for £1.65M
The Vanwall F1 car of the late 1950s is being recreated with six models costing £1.65M excluding VAT. They are likely to form the vanguard of more racing and road cars from the newly established Vanwall Group, whose MD Iain Sanderson pioneered the high performance Lightining GT electric supercar in 2008. … [Read more...]
