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Oulton Park Gold Cup: Annual Historic Racing Extravaganza
Read more: Oulton Park Gold Cup: Annual Historic Racing ExtravaganzaThe annual weekend historic festival takes place on 26th to 28th July 2024 on the rolling slopes of Oulton Park near Budworth in Cheshire. The event dates back to 1954 when the circuit opened. Initially it was an international race run to Formula One rules but in modern times it…
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2024 Le Mans 24hrs: Hypercars Reshaping FIA WEC Landscape
Read more: 2024 Le Mans 24hrs: Hypercars Reshaping FIA WEC LandscapeIt’s June and since 1923 brits have been making an annual pilgrimage to a small town in the Loire region of France called Le Mans, where the famous 24hrs race takes place. There have been some fallow periods, most recently the period from 2019 to 2021 when (apart from covid)…
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Historic Touring Car Legends vs. MRL HTC: Clash of the Classic Racing Series
Read more: Historic Touring Car Legends vs. MRL HTC: Clash of the Classic Racing SeriesOn 21 May 2024, the Historic Sports Car Club announced that interest was building for its “Touring Car Legends” series. The first event will be 8 & 9 June at Donington Park. The series caters for Group 2 and Group A machinery, so it should see wide arched Escorts, RS…
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Donington Historic Festival 04/05 May 2024 (with thanks to the XJS Club)
Read more: Donington Historic Festival 04/05 May 2024 (with thanks to the XJS Club)Thursday 2nd May dawned with an e mail from Motor Racing Legends (MRL) informing us that it had been acquired by Aythorpe Promotions Limited (APL). APL is led by prominent historic racer Shaun Lynn. I have had the pleasure of racing with the MRL organisation between 2014 and 2021 in…
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An Americano With an Extra Shot Please……..
Read more: An Americano With an Extra Shot Please……..…….. was the answer I gave to the lady on the coffee kiosk at the Bicester Scramble on Sunday morning. It was cold so I chose the Americano rather than my usual Double Espresso. What has coffee got to do with anything you ask? Well it seems a number of…
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The Right Crowd and No Crowding
Read more: The Right Crowd and No CrowdingThe Goodwood Road Racing Club 81st Member’s Meeting The modern version of the annual Goodwood Member’s Meeting started in 2014 with the 72nd version. Significantly and only for The Member’s Meeting, the age limit for cars racing on the circuit is increased to 1982, in order to permit the Group…
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Diversity Makes The Difference
Read more: Diversity Makes The DifferenceThe standard Volkswagon Polo of 2015 vintage weighs in at 1242Kg. So, why not stick a 428 Bhp power unit into one and have some fun? That’s exactly what this bloke did. I can’t begin to imagine the torque steer generated by such massive power, but fair play to anyone…
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Goodwood does MG
Read more: Goodwood does MGYou like motorsport and you are reasonably well off but you’re not a milionaire. You like the idea of racing but you don’t have a car. You’ve looked at historics and note that there are loads of Cobra’s, GT40s, E Types and Elans, but amongst all of them, there’s an…
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When Sunday Comes
Read more: When Sunday ComesWell, the first Sunday in the month that is. This day is set aside for the Car Collective’s Leighton Buzzard Cars and Coffee morning at Jackson and Phillips’ garage in Leighton Buzzard. Always a good turn out of diverse cars and this meeting was no exception. There was the young…
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Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024
Read more: Vintage Sports Car Club Pomeroy Trophy 2024In the late Douglas Adams’ book “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy”, a super computer known as “Deep Thought” takes eons to work out the answer to life, the universe and everything. In fact it takes so long to calculate that the computer forgets the question. I suspect Douglas based…
Once you’ve raced, you never forget it…and you never get over it.
— Richard Childress
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