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...]
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2024 Kwik Fit BTCC boosted
The Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship says all cars will receive double the power via its hybrid-turbo boost system from next season onwards. The BTCC became the first touring car series in the world to introduce hybrid power when it was officially launched for the 2022 season, which was followed by further tweaking to the way in which the hybrid power was deployed in 2023. With … [Read more...]
Mansell mania makes millions in auction
There is no doubt that ‘Mansell mania’ continues to be strong, with an incredible set of results achieved for Nigel Mansell’s Legacy Collection. Highlights from the collection being sold by the 1992 Formula One World Champion included the 1985 Canon Williams Honda European Grand Prix Helmet 'First Win'. Worn by Mansell in the 1985 European Grand Prix when driving for Canon Williams Honda, it was … [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...]
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 generation and is yet another highlight among the … [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...]
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 de elegance at the Cartier Style et Luxe … [Read more...]
Supercars Shuttle to Sporting Spectacular
Le Mans is home to the most famous 24-hour endurance race in the world and the centenary event took place last weekend, with thousands of motoring enthusiasts making the pilgrimage via LeShuttle to partake. The LeShuttle terminals were alive with the roar of powerful engines, with over 1,000 supercar and elite sports car journeys booked around the weekend of the race. These special vehicles … [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...]
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 undergoing change with increasing … [Read more...]
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