It’s February meaning that the new motor racing season is getting closer, and to help prepare for it, there are various track sessions and media launches in the offing. Today saw the BRSCC Fiesta Junior Winter Testing 2017 at Rockingham, as part of a wider Junior Series Test, with Ginetta Juniors, Clio Juniors and other…
Today saw the Junior Winter Test 2017 at Rockingham, with a series of junior racing series having the opportunity to try out their cars before the new seasons start. The Fiesta Juniors had plenty of cars on track, as did the Ginetta Juniors. The new Clio Cup Junior series had drivers there for its inaugural…
The British Touring Car Championship enjoyed another exciting weekend with the BTCC Rockingham Event 2016, as the teams moved to the Northamptonshire circuit for the eighth weekend of the season. Saturday was memorable, not just for the action on track but for the meteorological conditions. What had started as a changeable day saw heavy downpours…
Last weekend saw the British Formula Four drivers race at the Northamptonshire circuit supporting the British Touring Car Championship as the British Formula Four Rockingham Event 2016 got under way. Saturday’s qualifying session saw changeable weather, with a we t but drying track. The fastest times, which set the grid positions for the first race…
The Ginetta GT4 Supercup Rockingham Event 2016, as part of the BTCC weekend, like the other series there endured conditions on Saturday that seemed more like a tropical storm than a British summer, with dark skies, torrential rain and strong winds ending what had been an otherwise changeable day. However, the awful conditions were not…
The Clio Cup Rockingham Event 2016, as part of the BTCC weekend, saw plenty of action as well as weather conditions that were at best unexpected for a British Summer. Former champion Mike Bushell managed to take both pole positions, although the conditions had changed by the time the first race started on Saturday afternoon…
The Ginetta Junior Rockingham event 2016 formed part of the BTCC weekend over the bank holiday at the circuit. The first race of the weekend saw Will Tregurtha continue his impressive form of the season with a pole position start with Lewis Brown in second. Harry King started third, with Stuart Middleton in fourth. Stuart…
This weekend saw a new series for me, the BMW Race Days Compact Cup 2016 at Rockingham as part of the same BRSCC weekend as the Fiesta Championship and the Fiesta Junior Championship. The series saw a collection of BMW Compact 318Ti cars racing, with a very impressive field of 43 cars to be seen…
The weekend’s motor racing included the BRSCC Fiesta Junior Championship 2016 at Rockingham alongside the the Fiesta Championship, the BMW Compact Cup, the Teekay Couplings Production GTi Mk2 Championship, the Teekay Couplings Production GTi Mk5 Series and the Toyo Tires Porsche Championship, meaning for a few days of busy track action. The Fiesta Junior Championship…
Last weekend saw the latest rounds of the BRSCC Fiesta Championship 2016 at Rockingham, as part of a bill that included the Fiesta Junior Championship, as well as the BMW Compact Cup, the Teekay Couplings Production GTi Mk2 Championship, the Teekay Couplings Production GTi Mk5 Series and the Toyo Tires Porsche Championship, so altogether a…
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…
It’s not often you get to see oval racing in the UK, but I managed to witness some yesterday with the Pick Up Truck racing at Rockingham on the same bill as the Fiesta Juniors. The event certainly had a US feel to it, with the trucks being reminiscent of some of the American racing…