Adding to the special celebrations marking the 75th anniversary of the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, the Sunday racecard at this summer’s Silverstone Festival (22-24 August) will include the biggest-ever showdown staged for 500cc Formula 3 cars. Back in 1950, when Silverstone had the honour of hosting the first-ever points scoring F1 Grand Prix, a … [Read more...]
Bearman to open Autosport International
MoneyGram Haas F1 Team’s Oliver Bearman will kick-off the most exciting year of his career by opening the Autosport International Show, Europe’s biggest dedicated motorsport exhibition, at the NEC in Birmingham in January. Nineteen year old Bearman, who will embark on his first full season in Formula 1 next year with MoneyGram Haas F1, will cut the ribbon … [Read more...]
Goodwood Revival was pure theatre of dreams
Motor racing’s annual offering to the idiosyncratic British knack of successfully combining nostalgia with sublime racing scored again. Goodwood’s Revival meeting provided a 17-race card containing a broad selection of Saloon, Sports, GT and formula cars driven by a cross section of top-class drivers from both historic and modern racing genre. Held in … [Read more...]
Lavish, leviathan and luxurious – Goodwood Festival of Speed
Goodwood’s energetic Media Centre is always an interesting place to be, meeting old friends from the press corps but for sure the biggest challenge facing reporters is the bewildering level of information generated at this unique and idiosyncratic British motoring event. It was Sunday 20th June 1993 that Goodwood’s first Festival of Speed started as a … [Read more...]
Newslines 15 July
Former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone hid £1.35m in trusts from HMRC in the year beginning April 6, 2015 and was handed a penalty of the same amount. The details are revealed in the latest list of deliberate tax defaulters published by HMRC. Rail, bus and road services will be disrupted in Cardiff on Wednesday when some city centre access will be restricted for … [Read more...]
First female cohort of F1 hopefuls announced
A global independent motorsport initiative with a mission to find and develop the first female F1 world champion, More than Equal, has announced the inaugural female driver cohort joining its pioneering Driver Development Programme. Following an extensive global search and a rigorous selection process, the inaugural cohort (below) will consist of: Ivonn … [Read more...]
Verstappen will rally in Wales this weekend
Former Le Mans winner and Formula One racing driver Jos Verstappen will tackle the second round of the Probite British Rally Championship, the Rallynuts Severn Valley Stages on Saturday. Verstappen, father of F1 superstar, three-time F1 champion and Red Bull Racing driver Max, will make his debut in the BRC and the UK, tackling the world-famous Welsh gravel … [Read more...]
Racing lines 10 August
Visitors to this summer’s Silverstone Festival 25-27 August will be treated to the sensational sounds of BRM’s incredible V16 – widely hailed as the greatest sounding F1 engine of all time. It will be the first time Silverstone has reverberated to the mind-blowing wail of BRM’s fearsome supercharged 1.5-litre power plant in public for more than a … [Read more...]
Goodwood Festival’s bright spots
Bad weather disrupted this year's Goodwood Festival of Speed but couldn't blow away or wash out participants and spectators' enthusiasm marking its 30th anniversary. McLaren factory driver Marvin Kirchhöfer won the sensational Sunday afternoon Shootout final in the recently unveiled McLaren Solus GT, while over at the prestigious Festival of Speed concours … [Read more...]
Superbears – The Story of Hesketh Racing
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 … [Read more...]
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