Racing

Racing lines 22 February

22 February 2018

A grid full of period Touring Cars will be one of the crowd-pleasing highlights at the seventh Castle Combe Autumn Classic on Saturday 6 October. The race for pre-1966 cars will be held in memory of Terry Sanger, a local hero through the 1960s as he raced more and more outrageous saloon and touring cars. … [Read more...]

Sporting lines 15 February

15 February 2018

The 2018 want2race competition is now live and ready for entrants to get involved in the UK's biggest novice racing driver experience. Now in its 5th year offering an untouchable Ginetta prize, want2race offers a fully funded season in Ginetta Racing Drivers Club 2019 Find out more on the competition and how to enter this year here … [Read more...]

Sporting lines 8 February

8 February 2018

Three of Jaguar’s legendary Group C cars, including the 1987 Championship-winning XJR-8, will be demonstrated during the XK70 Festival on 9-10 June. The event celebrates 70 years since the introduction of the ground-breaking XK120, will take place at Shelsley Walsh in Worcestershire, and the trio of sports-prototypes will join a packed programme of … [Read more...]

Ferrari Challenge series plan for 2019

18 January 2018

Ferrari’s Corse Clienti division is evaluating a dedicated Ferrari Challenge series in the UK in 2019. A dedicated UK series of the Ferrari Challenge would be run to the same regulations as the Ferrari Challenge European Series and would be open to any UK clients who own a Ferrari 488 Challenge race car. Clients wishing to race in a Ferrari Challenge … [Read more...]

Morris looks to Europe for 2018 season

14 December 2017

Welshman Seb Morris, the reigning British GT Champion, is eyeing a full-time move into European competition for the 2018 motorsport season after confirming he and team-mate Rick Parfitt Jnr will go their ‘separate ways’. After two outstanding seasons together in the UK’s biggest and best endurance racing category, which culminated in a famous GT3 title … [Read more...]

Sporting lines: F1 return for Alfa Romeo

30 November 2017

After a 30 years gap, Alfa Romeo returns to F1 next season. It will run with the Swiss Sauber team and use Ferrari engines from its stablemate in the FCA group and there is no cut-off for the deal which rekindles memories of world champion Juan Manuel Fangio in 1951. … [Read more...]

Racing lines 16 November

16 November 2017

A long standing tradition of raising money for mainly locally based charities has generated over £44k from spectators and drivers at the Castle Combe circuit this year. The circuit’s charity raising started in earnest in 1989 by the late circuit boss Howard Strawford, from Swansea, who instigated the donation of gate receipts from its car boot sales to … [Read more...]

Racing lines 9 November

9 November 2017

Mid Wales racer Ben Power won the final round of the MRF National Legends Car Championship at Brands Hatch. But he had to settle for second in the series a few points behind world champion John Mickel who had recorded more finishes this year than the 27-year-old Welshman. … [Read more...]

Jann stars again in VR film

2 November 2017

Jann Mardenborough took time out of his Japanese racing programme to drive a new breakthrough project from Nissan and PlayStation, the Nissan GT-R /C. Celebrating the release of Gran Turismo Sport and marking 20 years of Nissan involvement in the Gran Turismo gaming series, the GT-R /C was extensively modified to be driven entirely by a DualShock®4 … [Read more...]

WRX 2018 rounds in Silverstone