Racing

Bennetts British Superbike Championship launches on tv

22 April 2021

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 … [Read more...]

Racing lines 15 April

15 April 2021

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 … [Read more...]

Racing lines 25 March

25 March 2021

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 … [Read more...]

Welsh car’s F1 safety role

11 March 2021

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 … [Read more...]

Newslines 8 March

8 March 2021

Maria Teresa de Filippis was the first woman to qualify for a Formula 1 Grand Prix, behind the wheel of a Maserati 250F and her story of passion and audacity has inspired Maserati to celebrates her achievements on the occasion of International Women’s Day, 8 March. Born in Naples in 1926, in 1948 she participated in her first race winning the 10 km … [Read more...]

Brakes go on Bloodhound LSR attempt

26 January 2021

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 … [Read more...]

£100,000 Ford Escorts reborn in Wales

21 January 2021

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 … [Read more...]

Morris bows out of Bentley on a high

17 December 2020

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 … [Read more...]

Morris ends frustrating first season with new team

19 November 2020

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 … [Read more...]

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