Following its cancellation in 2024 due to flooding, Race Retro – run by Clarion Events – bounced back to promote and showcase club and national motorsport including all forms of circuit racing, rallying, speed hill climbs, and much, much more. Annually, this event offers enthusiasts a fantastic platform to display iconic cars from four capacious exhibition … [Read more...]
Autosport International at a cross-roads
Last week's Autosport International Show kickstarted another motorsport season, but did new-look event deliver improvements promised by organisers? In motorsport circles, the International Racing Car Show begins another new season, traced back to when the event was conceived by the British Racing and Sports Car Club and first opened 2nd – 9th January 1960 … [Read more...]
Inaugural Welsh Motorsport & Supercar Festival
Pembrey Circuit will host the inaugural Welsh Motorsport & Supercar Festival on Sunday 22 September, exactly 31 years to the day since the late Brazilian F1 racing driver Ayrton Senna set the fastest lap around the home of Welsh motorsport. It was widely reported at the time that Senna broke the Pembrey lap record in 1988, less known however is that the … [Read more...]
Coventry considering city centre rallycross
Bringing the FIA World Rallycross Championship back to the heart of the UK to race around the streets of Britain’s ‘Motor City’ has the potential to generate ‘the biggest event the sport has ever seen’, suggests last year’s runner-up Kevin Hansen. Rallycross Promoter is in advanced talks with the organiser of MotoFest Coventry sponsored by E.ON to host a … [Read more...]
Sporting lines 14 March
Hyundai will return to the legendary Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, Colorado and also known as 'The Race to the Clouds,' on 23 June. This year’s 12.4 miles race to the 4,720ft summit on America’s Mountain will mark another milestone in Hyundai’s long history with the Colorado event, an effort that began in 1992 and one of the team's four drivers will … [Read more...]
Autosport International: Gunther Steiner opened event
For many years known as The Racing Car Show and based in London’s Olympia, Autosport International or A24 as this year’s show was dubbed, traditionally marks the start of a new season and without fail, Europe’s largest annual motorsport expose provides a great platform for the sport to showcase plans for the coming year. It also brings together old friends, … [Read more...]
Rally.TV launched for fans
In an era where innovation meets adrenaline, WRC Promoter continues to set new benchmarks for rally broadcasting. It pushed the envelope in 2018 by providing more live content than ever thought imaginable and will soon introduce Rally.TV: Your 24/7 home of rally and rallycross that promises to reshape the landscape of motorsport coverage worldwide. Just … [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 … [Read more...]
World Rally Car Era celebrated at Rallyday
Since inaugurated in 2001, Castle Combe-based Rallyday has established itself as the ‘Go To’ event for rally fans in the UK. This year the organizers of Europe’s biggest one-day rally show were mindful of the sad passing of our inspirational and much-loved monarch, her majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and a minute’s silence and black armbands some of the … [Read more...]
Rallycross enters the electric era
The FIA World Rallycross Championship is on the Road to Hell this weekend, for the start of the series’ eagerly-anticipated electric era at Ramudden World RX of Norway 13-14 August – and an electrifying spectacle is firmly in prospect. Following months of hard work behind-the-scenes, the championship’s ultra-powerful electric beasts – whose twin motors, … [Read more...]
