The 2017 Formula Sheane champion Dave Parks made his saloon car debut at the formula ford festival this weekend at the ex formula one circuit that is Brands Hatch. Dave was racing Vertical Racing team boss Robbie Parks’s RT2000 Irish Supercar run by Alan Kessie The weekend started well when Dave managed to qualify P4 on the grid in the
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It’s fair to state that the new DS 7 Crossback is the first real DS model; up until now vehicles carrying the DS badge have been Citroens given the premium touch. I have had the opportunity to take a closer look at this very stylish vehicle; alas I will have to wait a while until I get my driving hands
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By Ian Lynas. Sicily is my favourite island in the Med, one which has a rich history in motor sport, the Targa Florio was an open road endurance race held in the mountains near Palermo. Founded in 1906, it was the oldest sports car racing event, part of the World Sportscar Championship between 1955 and 1973 and while the first
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Firstly, I want to dedicate this blog to the late Cecil Sparks Well, what a weekend we had in England at wat was my first Targa rally across the water. The one & only Complete Rally Services Challenge run by Chelmsford Motor Club. Irish entries consisted of Eamonn Byrne, myself, Christopher Evans and John O Reilly- driving 2 Toyota Starlets
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The Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio has set the new benchmark for a production SUV at Germany’s legendary Nürburgring circuit, lapping the epic 12.9 mile Nordschleife in a record 7 minutes 51.7 seconds. This new time is a full eight seconds faster than the previous production SUV record. Italian driver Fabio Francia set the blistering lap record, the same driver who previously set
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It’s Thursday night, or should I say Friday morning, 2.30am. I’ve just finished a two week Patch Tyre Equipment Fiesta ST150 build, brand new from scratch, built only in the early hours. Sleep, a term that I used to know….. But all that is forgotten now, we’re ready to go testing. Early morning and into the afternoon is spent sorting out those
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So the racing season came to a close last weekend with the famous Leinster Trophy meeting held on the International Track at Mondello. Having only done about seven laps of the track in a Zetec, I decided some pre event testing would be worthwhile just to get the eye in before the weekend. The day didn’t start off too well
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