I have been asked to get back to the blogging, from which I have been absent these past weeks. So here I am. Where have I been hiding? All over the place actually, as is my wont. I was set to take a holiday – my usual lolling around on… Read more
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Motor racing’s autumnal treats
August 18th, 2010 | Rob Widdows | 15 Comments
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Latest Issue – September 2010
July 30th, 2010 | Web Editor
McLaren: Road & track
Has the company’s F1 team helped to inspire its new road-going MP4-12C?Festival of Speed review
We pick six of the best cars to grace Goodwood and speak to the starsAston Martin at Le Mans
Motor Sport joins the team in the pits; Sam Hancock reports from the… Read more -
A new view of WRC
February 3rd, 2010 | Ed Foster | 10 Comments
It’s easy to forget the World Rally Championship when a Formula 1 season looks set to be as exciting as this year’s does. However, this year rallying doesn’t look like it’ll be taking such a back seat.
Not only have Kimi Räikkönen and American extreme driver Ken Block arrived on… Read more
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The best and worst of ’09
December 24th, 2009 | Rob Widdows | 31 Comments
OK, here we are, the right side of the winter solstice, and just two packets of mince pies away from Christmas.
The last few days have been spent meeting deadlines, standing in queues of other badly organised people and waking up thinking of another thing I’ve forgotten to do.Now… Read more
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When co-driving goes bad…
November 26th, 2009 | Damien Smith | No Comments
It’s taken a little longer than it was supposed to, but finally we present my adventure with Tony Jardine on the McRae Stages Rally, as featured in the December issue of Motor Sport.
This was my second experience of rallying with Tony, but the first for over a year. As… Read more -
Safe bets for 2009
February 17th, 2009 | Ed Foster | 4 Comments
Some of you may remember that a couple of weeks ago my esteemed colleague Rob Widdows, wrote a blog about his predictions for the 2009 Grand prix season.
Well, I decided that it’s all very well making predictions but what are the odds of any of these happening? I annoyingly… Read more
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It’s a risky business…
December 18th, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 11 Comments
This is risky business. But I have carried out the necessary risk assessment and, just for a laugh, I’m hitting you with some lists.
First, a confession. I make a lot of lists. I run a lot of my life from these lists. This is not so much because my… Read more
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Riding through the storm
December 11th, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 11 Comments
Just back from a few days in Wales. The trip was an eye-opener.
There were two main topics of conversation in the service areas, and around the bars, during the course of what is now known as Wales Rally GB. That’s the RAC Rally of Great Britain to you and… Read more
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Rally GB – a winter wonderland
December 3rd, 2008 | Rob Widdows | No Comments
Winter is here. It is cold in England, minus four this morning, and that’s in a valley just 20 miles from the sea. Well, of course winter has arrived – it is the week of Wales Rally GB, still known to many of us as the RAC Rally.
Mikko Hirvonen,… Read more
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A winter of content
November 21st, 2008 | Rob Widdows | 18 Comments
I have just surfaced after a bout of enforced inactivity.
First, an operation on my right hand, with subsequent physiotherapy. Then came a rather nasty ‘lurgy’ which rendered me listless and spaced out, not to mention some aches and pains from a chest infection. Ah, the joys of winter in… Read more
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