Posts categorized under ‘Motorsport’

1966 was a good year for World Cup football but also a good year for F1-loving members of the Guild of Motoring Writers. Ford, amazingly, built a chalet at Silverstone, ...

F1 is stuck in the dark ages in one incredibly road-car-relevant area. It still uses 13-inch wheels! This is a surprise detailed in Autosport’s news pages a few weeks ago. ...

WORLD Cup fever kicks off this summer but you can get in right now – even if you’re not a football fan. Up for auction is, well, ‘the A1 GP ...

LEWIS Hamilton is getting a bit of a hard time at the hands of the Oz Police. OK, he was hooning. It was, as he said, a little silly. But…. ...

F1 cars round Silverstone are being replaced for one weekend, by a few thousand bats people. Among the throngs will be yours truly: yep, I’m entering the Silverstone Half Marathon. ...

WHY only 1000 Citroen DS3 Racings,  I asked the Citroen man at the Geneva Motor Show. Surely you could make it a permanent addition to the range, underlining its MINI ...

Virgin boss Richard Branson takes to the F1 grid for the first time this year with his own racing team. But it’s not the first time ‘his’ cars have been ...

TWITTER as a networking tool is developing fast. Once again, I found out how useful it can be this week. Trusty ol’ twhirl lit up green one morning: an @ ...

GRAHAM Rahal proved that you can be Plato-esque in an IndyCar single seater too. This really is quite incredible: how sideways IS the boy? Given the dynamics of FWD v ...

JASON Plato did it, at the Brands Hatch BTCC race, in a Chevrolet Lacetti. Check this out and enjoy! Oh, and if you have any that are just as good, ...