19/02/20

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Hitting The Right Notes For 2020
The season has now begun to get into full swing, and our reflections on the opening rounds of the British Rally Championship and the first BTRDA clash of the year can be read in this issue. It is an intriguing year for the BRC as it still seeks to pu
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Coronavirus Scuppers Chinese Grand Prix
The Chinese Grand Prix has been officially postponed by the FIA and Formula 1 due to the recent coronavirus outbreak. The Shanghai event was scheduled for April 19 but F1 chiefs were expected to postpone the race as more and more events continue to
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In Brief
Renault Formula 1 newcomer Esteban Ocon said he was “destroyed” after his year as a Mercedes reserve driver in 2019. Ocon, who switched to a Mercedes reserve role after losing his seat at Racing Point at the end of 2018, undertook a packed simulator
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Scuderia Says Vettel Would Be First Choice, Not Lewis
Sebastian Vettel is Ferrari’s first choice to partner Charles Leclerc for the 2021 Formula 1 season, says team principal Mattia Binotto. Vettel scored one victory to Leclerc’s two in 2019 and was outscored by his team-mate, who was in his first year
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MAXIMUM JOINS GT4 SUPERCUP WITH DEEGAN Busy Race Team Moves Into Ginetta One-make Series For 2020
Former British Touring Car Championship squad Maximum Motorsport will race in the Ginetta GT4 Supercup this season, running cars for two-time Civic Cup champion Lee Deegan and team boss Stewart Lines. Deegan has achieved success in a variety of club
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Carlin Is The First To Get To Grips With Remodelled British F3 Car For 2020 Competition
Carlin has become the first team to test the new-for-2020 modifications that will be used in the BRDC British Formula 3 Championship this season. A number of revisions have been incorporated into the Tatuus car – first introduced in 2016 – which incl
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In Brief
The British Women Racing Drivers’ Club held its annual awards dinner earlier this month. Race-winning Junior Saloon and GT4 driver Jemma Moore received the Natalie Goodwin Trophy for the best performance in circuit racing. Its equivalent for rally dr
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Combe To Host Prototypes Again
Two races for sports prototype machinery will be held at Castle Combe in 2020 during a meeting that will celebrate 45 years of the circuit’s Sports and GT championship. The Sports Racer Challenge will consist of a 20-minute qualifying session plus
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Van Der Watt Joins National Formula Ford Chase
SouthAfrican champion Julian van der Watt will take part in the forthcoming National Formula Ford 1600 season with Kevin Mills Racing. Van der Watt has raced in the UK’s Formula Ford end-of-year events in recent years and, driving for Kevin Mills, he
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Toyota’s New Wrc Yaris Set For 12-month Lifespan
Toyota’s newYaris is set to be used in the World Rally Championship for one season only, Motorsport News understands. It’s due to go into service in 2021, the final year of the current World Rally Car regulations cycle. This will ensure it looks the
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Evans Takes Early Command In Wrc
Elfyn Evans was leading Rally Sweden when Motorsport News went to press on Friday. The Welshman, 31, was fastest on two of the morning’s three stages to build an interim margin of 7.9 seconds over team-mate Kalle Rovanpera, as Toyota’s younger pairin
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Prodrive Sets Sights On Dakar Win With New Project
Prodrive has joined forces with the Bahrain sovereign wealth fund to build a T1 car for next year’s Dakar Rally. A new company, Prodrive International, will design and build a car to the top-level cross-country rules. It will operate a two-car team
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Lukyanuk Pays For Speeding Offence
Alexey Lukyanuk, the driver Briton Chris Ingram beat to the 2019 European Rally Championship, has completed his 10 days of community service for two speeding offences committed on Rally Liepaja last May. Lukyanuk’s Citroen C3 R5 developed a brake iss
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Cave Ready To Bounce Back In Brc Bid On West Cork
Tom Cave is predicting an exciting West Cork Rally as he looks to claw back an early championship deficit to defending British Rally champion Matt Edwards. Edwards won the opening round of the season, the Cambrian Rally, by 38.4 seconds over Osian Pr
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Star-studded Line-up Expected For Circuit Of Ireland Return
The Circuit of Ireland name returns this year and organisers expect it to be the standout event of the Tarmac Championship. On round three of the cross-border series and a counter of the FIA Celtic Cup, three additional stages have been added to the
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Petch Eyes Full Bid For BTRDA Crown
BTRDA Rally Series points leader Stephen Petch reckons his Cambrian Rally win puts his season “in a different light” as he weighs up a BTRDA title challenge. Petch won the Gold Star title in 2017 and is keen to add a second title to his roster after
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Pryce Keen To Return For More Brc Rounds After Encouraging Opener
Osian Pryce is working on plans to extend his British Rally Championship programme after taking a strong second place finish on the season-opening Cambrian Rally. The event was Pryce’s first back in the BRC since 2017 and was also his first time on g
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Brady’s Junior Ambition Not Dimmed By Damaging Shunt On Cambrian Rally
Brian Brady will resort to leasing a Ford Fiesta R2T car for the remainder of this season’s Junior British Rally Championship following a crash on the Cambrian Rally earlier this month. The reigning Motorsport Ireland Junior Rally Series champion mad
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Pitstop Penalty Introduced Across Masters’ Gentleman Drivers Series
The winning cars in this year’s Masters’ Gentleman Drivers series of races will earn time penalties in a bid to even up the competition. New rules for the coming season for the enduro pre ’66 races will hand pitstop time penalties for subsequent rac
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Down The Pub Ron Maydon
“Pre ’66 Touring Car regulations have been a bit of a hot topic and we’re introducing pitstop penalties for the race winners. I’ve had some calls from some of the frontrunners, who don’t like it and are asking if we’re trying to stop them winning. Th
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In Brief
Motorsport News is sorry to report that Ian Briggs, a prolific race winner and champion in single-seaters in the 1970s and 1980s, died earlier this month after a long illness. Briggs enjoyed success in Formula 4, Formula Ford 2000 and Formula Atlanti
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New Fears Over The Future Of Birmingham For 2020 Race Dates
The short oval racing dates, including those recently published for the National Hot Rod season 2020, have been thrown into doubt following fresh disagreements over the future of Birmingham Wheels. Although an agreement between the venue bosses and
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Eriksson Keen To Step Up To Supercar Bid
Double RX2 International Series champion Oliver Eriksson is calling time on his Supercar Lites career and is aiming to graduate into a full-time Supercar seat. Having won the GRC Lites title in America before storming to the two most recent World Ral
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Kallio Targets RX2 Title In Second Campaign
Former RXAcademy champion Jesse Kallio has re-signed with the Olsbergs MSE team to return to RX2 for a second campaign this year. Having claimed the RX Academy title in 2017, the Finnish driver raced in the Euro RX Super1600 series as his prize the f
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Matt Edwards
t’s great to have been asked to I contribute to a publication that has supported and reported on my career to date and it’s a little while since I’ve sat down and written about a weekend in the seat as opposed to a verbal debrief, but it does take me
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Edwards Storms Cambrian, But The Threats Are Gathering
Ouality. That was the word flying around the service park ahead of the opening round of the British Rally Championship. It wasn’t the number of R5-spec machines crossing the start ramp that caught the eye, it was who was behind the wheel of them. The
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Petch Takes Glory As Main Threats All Hit Hot Water
Penmachno will be living in the nightmares of a startling number of BTRDA drivers as the famous Welsh stage threw curveball after curveball on the season-opening Cambrian Rally. Charlie Payne and Matthew Hirst were claimed as Sacha Kakad suffered a p
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Motorbase Performance Ready To Focus On Success In 2020
There will be a fresh look to the British Touring Car Championship grid this season with the introduction of the fourth-generation Ford Focus RS. Motorbase Performance is putting the finishing touches to the first of its new machines at its Kent base
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Matt James
WSR changed the game when it wheeled out its new BMW 330i M Sport at the beginning of the 2019 British Touring Car Championship. The rear-wheel-drive German machine was almost designed to be the perfect fit for a racing tin-top despite its road-car
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The New Way Of Delivering Motorsport To The Front Room
Motorsport fans have never had it so good. Fact. There is more motorsport being televised now than ever, with a variety of channels all showing racing, rallying or rallycross, from testing to qualifying to full race coverage. And just as the number
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David Addison
Cards on the table: live streaming is a great idea. My bank manager certainly thinks so. It has provided more work for many of us commentators and is a huge contrast from the days when motorsport on television was a rarity, live coverage especially.
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Tony Skelton: Still Going Flat Out At 84 Years Old
If Tony Skelton had called time on his motor racing career after crashing heavily at Brands Hatch last year, no one would have blamed him. At 84 years of age, he could have quite easily stepped away from the cockpit for good, ending his decades-long
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How Harper Is On The Path To Glory With BMW
It is amazing what a difference a phone call can make. Having utterly dominated the Porsche Carrera Cup GB last season – six poles, eight wins and only two races where he finished lower than fourth – the next logical step for Dan Harper was to progre
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Mikey Godfrey
The winter break is far from a break for most teams. It’s a time of rebuilding, rethinking and modifications. We are absolutely no exception to this and have been busy in the garage since the season ended back in November. The trusty old Vauxhall Ti
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