Welcome back Race Retro! Providing an indication that normality is finally returning to motorsport, the hardy and bucolic annual Stoneleigh exhibition showcasing the UK’s national racing, rallying and speed scene returned to the calendar last weekend following two pandemic-enforced year’s absence, and although understandably more compact, quality counterbalanced a lack of quantity. Shoe-horned … [Read more...]
Sporting lines 1 February
A 1999 Ford Focus WRC, driven by the legendary Colin McRae in four rounds of the World Rally Championship, is being offered for sale by Silverstone Auctions at its Race Retro Competition Car Sale on 23 February and it’s likely to go for over £120,000. McRae, who tragically died in a helicopter accident in 2007, was the youngest and also the first British driver to win the World Rally … [Read more...]