As the latest part of our 70th anniversary celebrations, we are reintroducing Autosport’s National Driver Rankings from years gone by, looking at the most successful club racers in 2020. Since the early 1980s, Autosport has occasionally produced ‘Golden Helmet’ winners’ tables from a season of racing in the UK and […]
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First it was Jamie Caroline. Then it was Zane Maloney. And now Luke Browning can add his name to the very short list of British Formula 4 drivers to have won all three races in a weekend. Considering the partially reversed-grid middle race makes perfection so hard to achieve, it […]
Malcolm Wilson says the first stage rally to be held in the UK since lockdown restrictions were eased is a blueprint that should give “confidence and reassurance” to motor clubs. In conjunction with Motorsport UK and West Cumbria and Eden Valley Motor Clubs, Wilson organised the Return to Rally Stages […]
The two categories may seem poles apart but, for Mercedes AMG HPP engineer and Caterham 310R racer James Wingfield, the same approach can be applied to both, as STEPHEN LICKORISH discovers On the surface, Formula 1 and Caterham racing don’t have too much in common. But for one Caterham 310R […]
The co-founder of the Feed Racing school has explained why Marijn Kremers hasn’t taken up his prize drive in British Formula 4 this season, much to the ire of Carlin. Former BAR Formula 1 test driver Patrick Lemarie set up the Feed programme alongside his fellow ex-BAR driver and 1997 […]
The Revolution Trophy class of the Sports Prototype Cup has secured a support slot at the Portuguese Grand Prix, appearing alongside Formula 1 for the event at the Algarve Circuit. The UK-based Sports Prototype Cup was launched last year and features classes for the new Revolution A-One machine, as well […]
Since it was introduced 50 years ago, the Mini Miglia series has continued to grow due to its close racing and low costs. This weekend the popular series will be shown to a wider audience as part of the British Touring Car Championship’s support bill, as STEPHEN LICKORISH finds out […]
There may have only been two weekends of British GT action held so far, but 2016 GT4 champion GRAHAM JOHNSON already knows who he’s tipping for the title Spoiler alert: Phil Keen and Adam Balon will win the 2020 British GT3 Championship. How can I be so sure? Because the […]
Two new winners claimed GT3 spoils on a gloomy day at Donington Park, as British GT introduced a new format of a two-hour race followed by a one-hour sprint. Michael Igoe and new co-driver Andrea Caldarelli took the 37.5 points on offer in the first race in WPI Motorsport’s Lamborghini, […]
Two back-to-back meetings for the TOCA supports have now taken place – both behind closed-doors. Despite a number of procedural changes and condensed calendar, series and drivers are adapting, and the on-track action is as good as ever says STEPHEN LICKORISH Socially distanced one-by-one podiums. Broad smiles from race winners […]
TOCA supports were back in action over the weekend at Brands Hatch, with the Mini Miglias proving to be the stars of the show during a weekend of enthralling national racing There has been plenty of despondency in recent months amid the coronavirus pandemic, but the sight of 46 Minis […]
The spate of COVID-related withdrawals from the British GT Championship leaves a clear favourite on paper ahead of this weekend’s opening round. But as JAMES NEWBOLD explains, it’s not as simple as that Joe Osborne describes Phil Keen as “weird”. In the most endearing way possible, of course. The McLaren […]
2013 British Touring Car champion Andrew Jordan made a winning return to a BTCC event at Brands Hatch last weekend, racing a Mini Miglia in one of the support categories. Jordan was due to drive for West Surrey Racing in this year’s BTCC but was unable to drive for the […]
The penultimate corner of the Autodromo do Algarve (recently announced as joining the Formula 1 calendar for 2020) is a harmless enough long, double apex right-hander – think Silverstone’s Luffield but with a downhill exit. In such corners, usually drivers find themselves twiddling their toes, trying desperately to summon the […]
Kelvin Fletcher and Martin Plowman will not contest the 2020 British GT championship in a JRM Bentley Continental GT3 and instead plan to defer their entry to 2021. Soap actor Fletcher, who won BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing competition last year, has raced with former IndyCar racer Plowman since 2018 and […]
UK club racing finally resumed earlier this month in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdown. But just how have things changed for the regular competitors taking part in their hobby, and what has become the new normal? STEFAN MACKLEY shares his experiences from Snetterton last weekend For […]
There have been some large grids as circuit racing has returned in the UK over the past two weeks. But not everyone has emerged from the COVID-19 hiatus quite so positively, says STEPHEN LICKORISH, which again shows how motorsport fortunes can change There are always winners and losers from any […]
A limit on the number of spectators following the COVID pandemic may be having an impact on club racing, but during the downtime work has been carried out to protect drivers from more familiar motorsport dangers – as MARCUS PYE has found out The very late government-led volte-face that prevented […]
Four days before the 70th anniversary of the venue’s inaugural race meeting, the Castle Combe Racing Club brought sanctioned racing back to life in one of the UK’s first post-COVID-19 lockdown events. Pioneering new protocols in miserable conditions, which triggered a number of incidents to test them, officials passed with […]
Thruxton came alive last weekend as an unprecedented 400 plus competitors were in action for the Classic Sports Car Club’s first meeting of the year. Torrential rain on Saturday afternoon tested typically eclectic grids and the marshals’ fortitude, as Spire veteran John Cutmore celebrated his unusual Magnificent Sevens victory over […]