Last weekend saw the second race outing for the British Touring Car Championship as we saw the class of BTCC 2016 at Donington Park. The series was there with its normal support races including MSA Formula, the Ginetta series, and the Clio Cup. Saturday was best described as a changeable day at the…
The British Superbike season has started its latest season, and got under way at Silverstone. Of course, as well as the main event, there are other series over the same weekend, so here are some details of the support races at the 2016 BSB Silverstone weekend. The weekend had 14 races planned, including two British…
Yesterday saw the BTCC Media Launch 2016 at Donington Park, with the teams and drivers on display not just for the media but fans who made their way along to the Leicestershire circuit. I popped along to see what was going on, and it was a busy event with a long queue to get in…
The new motor racing season is about to start, and the various pre season tests are under way, so I recently headed out to the Circuit de Catalunya near Barcelona for Formula One Winter Testing 2016, where each of the teams get a chance to try out their new cars, and also the new tyres that…
Rio Haryanto was born in Indonesia in 1993. In 2008, he competed in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge, Formula Asia 2.0, and in Formula BMW Pacific. Rio managed a third place in the Formula Asia 2.0 championship, with a race win, and two race wins in the Asian Formula Renault Challenge, which was impressive enough…
Pascal Wehrlein was born in Germany to a German father and a Mauritian mother in 1994 and took up karting in 2003. Pascal progressed quickly through karting, and in 2010 he moved to the ADAC Formel Masters series, where he finished 6th before winning the series the following year. He moved to the Formula 3…
Last weekend saw the Race of Champions 2015 in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. The Race of Champions started in 1988, and moves from location to location, with this being the first trip to the UK since 2008 when Wembley hosted the event. It’s fair to say that the weather conditions were a bit different…
It’s November, and as the nights get longer and the sun sets earlier, the motor racing season in this part of the world draws to an end for the winter, and after many trips this year, I headed off to Donington Park yesterday for the last race meeting of the year, the BRSCC Winter Raceday 2015.…
Last weekend at Brands Hatch saw the Formula Ford Festival 2015, one of the big events on the BRSCC calendar for the year. The weekend sees a series of races in heats for the Formula Ford title, including a final. Formula Ford is a series that has been a key part in the career of…
Regular readers will be aware that I have been following several of the BRSCC series this year, so I went along last weekend to the Formula Ford Festival including the last rounds of the Fiesta Junior Championship at Brands Hatch. The series features drivers aged 14-17, and have been impressed at the quality of the…
Jolyon Palmer made his way through karting before entering the T Cars series in 2005 at the age of 14. He had some impressive performances and in 2007 moved to Formula Palmer Audi, which had been founded by his father, Jonathan Palmer, back in 1998. A second series in Formula Palmer Audi saw Jolyon take…
As well as the Fiesta Juniors last weekend, there were also several races for the Jam-Sport Fiesta Championship at Rockingham yesterday. The Jam-Sport Fiesta series has various classes, hence the multiple races over the weekend. I watched one of the class C races. The race got off to an odd start with one of the…