Hesketh Racing famously burst on the scene at exactly the right time during the 1970s, just when the average Britain needed an antidote to depressing daily news telling of Industrial unrest, multifarious EEC collaboration, high prices caused by oil-producers restricting supplies and a potential coal miners’ strike, writes Ken Davies. Formula One too was undergoing change with increasing … [Read more...]
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Genesis gears up for Goodwood Festival
Genesis Motor Europe continues its role as official partner of the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2023. Following the successful debut of the partnership at the world-renowned automotive event in 2021, the award-winning Korean brand extended its commitment with an exclusive three-year association starting in 2022. This year Genesis will debut exciting new products at the … [Read more...]
Surviving to drive
Netflix compelling and successful series ‘Drive to Survive’ is rightly credited with breathing new life into Formula One by creating a whole new audience, especially in the USA. But the fly-on-the-wall reality series has also discovered cult heroes among previously unknown paddock personalities, particularly in minnow teams and Gunther Steiner, sometimes outspoken principal of the HAAS team, has … [Read more...]
Seb tastes success again
Wales' Seb Morris produced a flawless performance at Brands Hatch Grand Prix Circuit over the weekend to celebrate three race victories with team-mate Gustavo Xavier during the second event of the GT Cup Championship season. Super-sub Xavier joined Marford, Wrexham racer Morris as a stand-in for his regular RAM Racing team-mate Charles Dawson, who is recovering from a broken back, and the pair … [Read more...]
Unique racer rises from scrapyard
The 1927 Alvis Grand Prix car, one of the first of its kind to use front wheel drive, has been extensively restored 96 years after a retirement at Brooklands curtailed the factory effort. Abandoned in a Warwickshire scrapyard after its race career ended, the sole surviving Alvis Grand Prix is highly original, having not been subjected to years of competition. It has been revealed at Automobile … [Read more...]
Weekend roadtest: GWM Funky Cat 1st Edition
The UK’s electric car revolution is becoming a bloody affair. From initially resisting the new technology on cost grounds including writing off established investments in petrol and diesel engine technology and having to develop hybrid or pure electric powertrains, along with making tens of thousands of workers redundant, manufacturers have struggled to convince buyers into showrooms or on-line … [Read more...]
Newslines 6 April
Welsh government is very unlikely to see £7.35m it spent on an ill-fated Circuit of Wales racetrack project, it has told the BBC. Officials say there is "little chance" of getting it back from the insolvent company behind the £433M Circuit of Wales after the project fell apart in 2017 when the Welsh government rejected a request to guarantee almost half its funding after it discovered there were … [Read more...]
Grand Prix legends return to Silverstone
An incredible grid of legendary front-engined Grand Prix cars will be one of the standout highlights at Silverstone Festival 2023 from 25-27 August which this summer is celebrating the world famous circuit’s 75thanniversary in spectacular style with special races, parades and displays. As ever, the three-day event will feature an unrivalled line-up of retro races but this year the bill will be … [Read more...]
Welshman Morris steps onto podium
Former British GT Champion Seb Morris, from near Wrexham, delivered an impressive showing on his racing return at Donington Park over the weekend with an excellent podium finish just reward for a sparkling debut in the GT Cup Championship. Even though having been away from competitive track action for 10 months, and with the fresh challenge of a new car – the Mercedes-AMG GT4 – a new team … [Read more...]
Leading Welsh racer is back on track
Professional racing driver Seb Morris will make a very welcome return to endurance action just a few days from now having been confirmed as team-mate to GT4 driver Charles Dawson in the GT Cup Championship with RAM Racing. Welshman 26-year-old Morris, from Marford near Wrexham, is thrilled to be back in GT action for 2023 after being drafted in as Dawson’s team-mate for selected rounds of the … [Read more...]
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