Tickets for the 2024 Silverstone Festival will go on general sale on Wednesday 15 November with best prices offered to those booking the following weekend. The event will once again be staged over the end-of-summer bank holiday weekend – which next year is 23-25 August – and will offer fantastic fun-fuelled entertainment for all the family. Staged at the home of British motorsport, the … [Read more...]
Days of thunder coming to Silverstone
This summer’s Silverstone Festival will celebrate the 75th anniversary of America’s legendary NASCAR race series. There will be track demonstration parades on all three days of the spectacular bank holiday weekend 25-27 August. It is the first time that a posse of 800+bhp muscle cars from the US’s most popular and dramatic motor sport have been unleashed on the famous Grand Prix circuit. … [Read more...]
#YourRoR with pride this November
Mission Motorsport, The Forces’ Charity, has launched #YourRoR, an initiative to engage and inspire beneficiaries and supporters over Remembrance weekend 6 – 8 November. It replaces the annual Race of Remembrance (RoR) 12-hour endurance race cancelled owing to Covid-19 restrictions, losing the charity £50,000 for beneficiaries. #YourRoR offers a new raft of activities as a means to … [Read more...]
Wales’ forests rallying agreement signed
Motorsport UK and Natural Resources Wales have signed a new access agreement to allow competitive four-wheeled rallying for the next three years until 2023. For decades, NRW’s forests have played host to a range of motorsport, working effectively with Motorsport UK to stage events at every level of the sport, from grassroots to the iconic Wales Rally GB – Britain’s round of the FIA World Rally … [Read more...]
Legendary John Price – an appreciation
The rallying world lost one of its bright stars on Tuesday evening 21 April as the man who was instantly recognised to so many by just his initials, ‘JP’, namely John Price, lost a long a hard fought battle with his illness that had seen him become increasingly unwell over the past few years, writes Roger Gale. He entered this world in 1944, and left it gently, surrounded by his family in … [Read more...]
A chance to play it again Maestro
During the 1970s and 80s, one-make racing series were a popular component of motor manufacturer’s marketing strategy, used to promote chosen models, writes Ken Davies. Among these were Ford Escort Mexico, Renault 5, Honda CRX, Ford Fiesta, VW Polo and even Porsche 924 and BWW M1 supercar championships that became popular among competitors and spectators alike, but perhaps one of the most … [Read more...]
A world apart celebrated in Wales
Wales Rally GB is launching a new brand identity. It's specifically created to emphasise the unique attributes of the UK’s annual round of the FIA World Rally Championship and to introduce the extraordinary sport to wider audiences. The dynamic rebrand builds on the more traditional ‘Rally of Legends’ positioning of recent years and provides a new platform from which to market and further … [Read more...]
New Polo GTI R5 AWD unveiled
The Volkswagen Polo GTI R5 will be on the WRC scene in 2019. Initial tests have gone very well and homologation is planned for summer next year, meaning it cannot do a full WRC campaign until the following year, but it may be seen on selected events next year as VW evaluate different events and publicity opportunities. The development of the new 4WD rally sports car incorporated the … [Read more...]
Premiere engineering company bought out
One of Britain's foremost engineering companies in development of high performance transmissions has been bought-out by British private investors fund. Inflexion Private Equity have agreed the buyout of Xtrac Ltd, which supplies most of the world's top motorsport teams in both two and four-wheeled formulae across the globe, from MotoGP to Formula 1. The business enjoys strong EBITDA growth; … [Read more...]
