Easter saw the BTCC 2017 Donington Park Weekend with the touring cars coming to the Leicestershire circuit, alongside their support events including the Clio Cup, British F4, Porsche Carrera Cup, Ginetta Juniors and Ginetta GT4 Supercup. The first free practice session on Saturday saw Rob Austin top the times from Jack Goff, with Team Hard’s Jake…
It’s the BTCC Media Day 2017 at Donington Park with the ever popular British Touring Car Championship cars and drivers making their first public appearance of the season. The event sees a series of media sessions in the morning including driver interviews and the presentation of the cars, followed by a public access test in…
Fans of Dr Who will be aware that the Cybermen, probably one of the three most famous opponents of the Doctor alongside the Daleks and The Master, first appeared in The Tenth Planet, shown in 1966 and set in the then futuristic world of 1986. 2016 then sees their 50th anniversary, and The National Space…
The final round of the British GT this weekend also saw the British F3 Donington Event 2016 as the championship decider for the popular series. The top of the table was tight before the Donington round ensuring an exciting end to the season with multiple drivers who could become champion. Qualifying saw Ben Hingeley take…
This weekend saw the British GT Donington Event 2016, the championship decider for the popular series, as well as the final rounds for the supporting events including British Formula Three. The British GT series is split in to two sections, that for GT3 and that for GT4. The final round saw a two hour race on Sunday…
You see some odd sights on the main roads and motorways as you travel around the country, including some human powered vehicles, and an unexpected piece of road haulage I spotted on my way to Donington Park recently was a Boeing 737 on the A42. Being just around the corner from East Midlands Airport and…
Like much of the UK, the Leicestershire countryside hosts a series of local fetes and festivals over the summer, many of which are actually impressively large events relative to the size of the village hosting them. Such is the Shakerstone Festival 2016, and for that matter, each year at the festival. The village is small,…
I took a trip to the 2016 Heather Scarecrow Festival today, just in time before the week long display of locally made scarecrows came to an end. I have written before about the 2014 and the 2015 events, and this year was another superb crop of crows. It is the 18th running of the festival…
I made it back from Scandinavia for the Masters Festival 2016 at Donington Park, which was held this weekend. The Masters Festival forms part of the Masters Historic Racing series for the year, with across Europe and North America. The Masters Festival at Donington is one of three UK rounds, the others being the Masters…
This weekend saw the Moira Canal Festival 2016, the annual local fundraiser for the Ashby Canal that has a fantastically varied series of events. I’ve written about the 2013, 2014 and 2015 events, and as with those and other previous years, I went along to see what was going on. The trip to Moira is…
I spent today (Saturday) watching on track action by the NGRRC at Donington Park in the glorious May sunshine. The NG Road Racing Club started life as the North Gloucestershire Road Racing Club back in 1970 with a first race meeting at Gaydon in 1971. The club has grown since, and this weekend sees plenty…
This bank holiday weekend saw the running of the Donington Historic Festival 2016, and like previous events there were plenty of cars from previous decades to see both on track and on display around the circuit. The weekend included races for various touring car vintages, sports cars ranging from pre-War through to the 1970s, a…