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 colourful field of pint-sized 500cc cars … [Read more...]
Death of British Touring Car legend
One of the 1980s legendary drivers, David Brodie, died on Tuesday. Viewed in the pantheon of British motor racing history David Brodie, was an international saloon car racing folk hero, perhaps best known for carrying the iconic script 'Run-Baby-Run' on the front of his Ford Escort 2.1 litre Mk1. He successfully competed in the British Touring Car Championship for four decades and his best … [Read more...]
Great names return for Silverstone Festival
Two of the most successful teams in British Grand Prix history in recent decades – Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS and Williams Racing – will be supporting Silverstone’s 75thanniversary celebrations at Silverstone Festival over the Bank Holiday weekend 25-27 August. Williams famously won its first-ever Grand Prix win at Silverstone in 1979 and since then has racked up seven further victories with star … [Read more...]
Seb secures Silverstone success
Welsh racer Seb Morris secured an excellent victory as part of an impressive podium hat-trick in the GT Cup Championship at Silverstone Grand Prix Circuit over the weekend to mark a superb return to action for the Pro driver and team-mate Charles Dawson. Having been on the racing sidelines for more than three months, recovering from a broken back, Dawson starred and Wrexham’s Morris expertly … [Read more...]
Grand Prix legends return to Silverstone
An incredible grid of legendary front-engined Grand Prix cars will be one of the standout highlights at Silverstone Festival 2023 from 25-27 August which this summer is celebrating the world famous circuit’s 75thanniversary in spectacular style with special races, parades and displays. As ever, the three-day event will feature an unrivalled line-up of retro races but this year the bill will be … [Read more...]
Leading Welsh racer is back on track
Professional racing driver Seb Morris will make a very welcome return to endurance action just a few days from now having been confirmed as team-mate to GT4 driver Charles Dawson in the GT Cup Championship with RAM Racing. Welshman 26-year-old Morris, from Marford near Wrexham, is thrilled to be back in GT action for 2023 after being drafted in as Dawson’s team-mate for selected rounds of the … [Read more...]
Follow your heroes in a single-seater TrackDays experience
Motorsport fans looking to follow in the tyre tracks of their racing heroes can now live out their dreams following the relaunch of thirteen driving experience packages which allow participants to get behind the wheel of a single-seat Formula racing car. With the start of the 2023 F1 season just around the corner, racing enthusiasts can now select one of the newly reactivated packages … [Read more...]
Welsh firm helping Aston Martin F1 project
Cardiff-based aluminium fabricator Dudley’s Aluminium will assist in the construction of Aston Martin’s new Formula 1 facility at Silverstone. Dudley’s Aluminium will be working with SDC Builders Ltd on the project and install Kawneer doors and capped curtain walling. The 400,000 square foot facility will house the Aston Martin team’s design, manufacturing and marketing resource, as well as … [Read more...]
Newslines 23 August
Octopus Energy Group and National Grid ESO have announced the first successful integration of vehicle-to-grid technology, using a test environment of the Balancing Mechanism, the primary tool used by National Grid ESO to balance Great Britain’s electricity system in real-time. This is the first time that vehicle-to-grid technology has been demonstrated in Great Britain to show that electric … [Read more...]
Bond classic cars going under the hammer
A display of cars from the 007 blockbuster No Time To Die will be in pole position at Silverstone for The Classic over the end-of-summer bank holiday weekend 26-28 August. To celebrate 60 years of James Bond on the silver screen, EON Productions and Christie’s are teaming up to present a very special two-part charity auction with 60 standout lots. The live auction on 28 September includes … [Read more...]
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