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Gordon Shedden left the world-famous Kent venue of Brands Hatch as the newly crowned 2012 BTCC Champion. Shedden, from Fife, becomes the first Scottish driver to lift the most coveted prize in UK motor sport since his own hero, John Cleland, in 1995. Andrew Jordan collected the Independent Drivers’ Trophy, Honda/Dynamics the Manufacturers/Constructors Championship and […]
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Nissan and PlayStation have joined forces again to run the fourth year of the innovative GT Academy virtual-to-reality racing competition. While the four previous GT Academy graduates line up in top-level race series in 2012, the programme that set them on their path to motor sport fame has been expanded and will now incorporate four […]
If you like motorsport, you really, really want to watch this video. Just what goes into an endurance race at probably the most demanding race course in the world? Take a look at the video courtesy of Drive, a new channel on Youtube. For the record, I have a massive respect for all racing car […]
The Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship has revealed its extended points scoring system for 2012. From next season, the top 15 finishers in each race will score outright championship points. The 15 highest-placed independent runners will also score in the Independents Trophy. Previously, only the top ten in both championships were awarded points. The […]
In one of the closest final events of the 2011 motoring calendar, the BTCC boys really took it to the wire. A number of names were in contention coming in to the final race, including Matt Neal, Mat Jackson, Gordon Shedden and the ever present Jason Plato. Neal won the opening race, with Shedden taking […]
Here’s a video of Johnny Herbert driving the amazing Mazda 787B. What a car! It’s a historic winner and if you’re in the know then it’ll need little explanation – or Herbert’s connection to it. For the rest of you, this is the 1991 winner of the 24 hours of Le Mans.
It’s finally coming – the Ayrton Senna film will be arriving this year and here’s the official trailer courtesy of EVO. It looks bloody fantastic and I cannot wait to see it. Senna is a legend of the sport and some of his races are the stuff that other racers dream of.
Just look at that thing in action! Sebastien Loeb as usual makes it look easy as pie to drive like an absolute god on the most loose surfaces in the world at terrifying speed – whilst the rest of us who know the level of talent it requires simply look on in awe. This new […]
The BBC is reporting on the recent scare that Jenson Button suffered whilst in Brasil – following a session at the track Button saw gunmen on the road looking at him! Luckily the McLaren star escaped unhurt as his police driver put pedal to metal in order to escape the potentially lethal situation. Race drivers […]