The visit to Leicestershire for the British GT series included the Ginetta GT5 Challenge Donington Rounds 2017 with the final three races deciding the championship over the weekend. Wet qualifying saw a mixed up grid with Max Bird, Ryan Hadfield, Rob Boston, Carlito Miracco and Lewis Brown making up the top five for what looked like…
This weekend saw the Britcar Donington Rounds 2017 as part of the BARC event at the Leicestershire circuit. Britcar is an endurance racing series run across five classes that see some fantastic cars competing, with this weekend featuring a 50 minute race and a two hour event, both on Saturday. The cars on the grid…
The beginning of the month saw the Donington Park Caterham Festival July 2017 which marked the 60th anniversary of the ever popular car not just with a series of Caterham races, but also with the launch of the Caterham Seven Donington Edition. There are only ten of the edition, each of which is named after one…
The bank holiday weekend saw the Moira Canal Festival 2017, which helps to raise funds for the Ashby Canal. The festival has developed a reputation for having a remarkable series of activities and displays. Each year has seen a historical reenactment and this year’s group was the Coldstream Guards from the Napoleonic Wars. Not only…
The May Day bank holiday weekend saw the Donington Historic Festival 2017, which has become a standard date in recent years for the event at the Leicestershire circuit. As normal, there were plenty of on track races and car parades as well as plenty to see around the track, including an incredible number of vehicles from…
This weekend’s MSVR Donington event includes, among other series, the inaugural rounds of the new LMP3 Cup, the F3 Cup and the Radical Racing 2017 Donington Event. Radical Racing is a relatively cost effective racing series, with the cars based on a motorbike engine, which helps to ensure busy grids and plenty of close racing.…
The current MSVR weekend includes the F3 Cup Donington Round April 2017, the first of seven weekends for the series around the country. This weekend’s event includes various other championships such as the inaugural and exciting LMP3 Cup for and Radical racing. The F3 Cup is made up of consists of three classes; the Cup Class (cars…
There is an MSVR event this weekend which includes the LMP3 Cup 2017 Donington Round, the inaugural event of the series, as well as other championships including the F3 Cup and Radicals. LMP3 is a class of European Le Mans Series racing, and the new event has attracted plenty with a good motor racing pedigree meaning…
The BTCC event over the Easter weekend saw the Ginetta GT4 Supercup 2017 at Donington Park, with the cars on circuit over the Saturday and Sunday of the weekend. George Gamble had set the pole time, ahead of Ben Green. Carl Boardley was quickly in the lead, though, of the first race, with Green also…
The BTCC event at Easter included the Porsche Carrera Cup at Donington Park 2017, one of the stalwarts of the Touring Car programme. Dan Cammish, the 2015 and 2016 champion, went into the weekend leading the table after two wins out of two at the Brands Hatch rounds, but it was Charlie Eastwood who took both wins…
Easter saw the British F4 Donington weekend 2017 as part of the BTCC event. Qualifying on Saturday saw Linus Lundqvist take pole from Jamie Caroline, and the two battled from the start of the race for the lead. Caroline tried to go around the outside at the first corner, before taking the lead at the Old…
The Renault Clio Cup 2017 Donington Park Weekend as part of the BTCC event took place over Easter, and the series which has a reputation for exciting and close racing lived up to that. Dan Zelos took his first Clio pole, with Lee Pattison taking the second in qualifying on Saturday Photos from Qualifying [flickr_tags…