March 18, 2010

Win tickets to the British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch

If you want some free tickets to the Opening Round of the British Superbike Championship at Brands Hatch then there is a free competition you should take a look at trying to win.

The Daily Mail are running the competiton to win the 5 pairs of free raceday tickets for the BSB Cha,mpionship as it has it’s opening round at Brands Hatch on the Easter Weekend of 2-5th April.

It is a really easy competition and all you simply have to do is email the answer to the following question.

Where will the opening round of the MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship take place?

a. Brands Hatch
b. Snetterton
c. Oulton Park

Email your answer to sportcomps@dailymail.co.uk with the subject box being “SUPERBIKES” to be in their inbox before midday on Monday March 29th 2010.

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February 17, 2010

2010 British Touring Car Championship race calendar

The 2010 Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC) race calendar has been revealed showing the 10 race weekends that are to take place in this years championship.

The race days for each round of the British Touring Car Championship for 2010 are listed below:

4th April 2010 – Thruxton

25th April 2010 – Rockingham

2nd May 2010 – Brands Hatch GP

6th June 2010 – Oulton Park (View other Oulton Park events for 2010)

20th June 2010 – Croft

8th August 2010 – Snetterton

22nd August 2010 – Silverstone

5th September 2010 – Knockhill

19th September 2010 – Donnington Park

10th October 2010 – Brands Hatch (View other Brands Hatch events for 2010)

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- Filed under: Motorsport, Racing Circuits
- Tags: British Touring Car Championship race dates, British Touring Cars, BTCC, BTCC Race calendar — @ 5:02 pm

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Oulton Park race circuit 2010 motor racing events

Oulton Park 2010 race events and fixtures have been announced and make for a super year of motor racing at the Cheshire race track.

Below are a list of the main Oulton Park events for 2010.

3/4/5 April: Cooper Tires British F3 and Avon Tyres British GT

24 April: Modified Live

1/2/3 May: MCE British Superbike Championship

22 May: Vintage Sports Car Festival

5/6 June: HiQ Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship

29/30 August: The Oulton Park Gold Cup

8/9/10 October: MCE British Superbike Championship

There is 29 events all together for the Oulton Park 2010 race calendar, with the main ones listed above.

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- Filed under: Motorsport, Racing Circuits
- Tags: Oulton Park, Oulton Park 2010 motor racing events fixtures — @ 4:00 pm

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Brands Hatch 2010 motor racing events

Brands Hatch has announced its motor racing fixtures for 2010.

Brands Hatch is one of the premier UK motor racing circuits and hosts many of the leading UK motor sport events, including the British Touring Car Championship and the BSB British Superbikes championship along with various other events.

The 2010 Brands Hatch main events fixtures are:

2/3/4/5 April: MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship

17/18 April: Truck Superprix

1/2 May: Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship

29/30/31 May: The Masters Historic Festival

27 June: Modified Live

3/4 July: HSCC Historic Superprix

10/11 July: BikeRadar Live

17/18 July: FIA World Touring Car and Formula Two Championships

31 July/1 August: Superleague Formula by Sonangol

6/7/8 August: MCE Insurance British Superbike Championship

3/4/5 September: DTM

25/26 September: British F3 and GT Championships

9/10 October: Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship

16/17 October: Formula Ford Festival

30/31 October: Truck Superprix

Brands Hatch is part of the Motorsport Vision group who own and run some of the leading UK motor racing circuits.

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- Tags: Brands Hatch, Brands Hatch 2010 events — @ 3:22 pm

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February 15, 2010

British Grand Prix at Silverstone will use new track changes

Silverstone race track is to change it’s layout before the British Grand Prix is due to be held there on the 11th July, although Damon Hill is not a fan of the new changes.

2 new straights are to be added to make it more of an “Arena” type circuit with an infield loop that will mean that Bridge and Priory corners will be not raced on and instead the track will head up towards Becketts after Abbey where there will be an S-bend before a long straight brings the track to join the original back at Brooklands.

The extended track will cost around £5 million and will add half a mile onto the circuit making it 3.666 miles long and mean laps take around 4 seconds longer that the original circuit. The new track is expected to be finished next month.

Last year Silverstone lost the rights to host the British Grand Prix to Donnington Park for the next 17 years, but due to not being able to find the funding in time Donnington Park subsequently lost it and Silverstone was added back to the calendar after investing in making the venue up to scratch.

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- Filed under: Motorsport, Racing Circuits
- Tags: British Grand Prix Silverstone, Formula 1 at Silverstone, Silverstone, Silverstone race circuit, Silverstone track changes — @ 6:15 pm

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Oulton Park extend viewing areas

Oulton Park Race Circuit in Cheshire has had a few changes through the winter to open up more of the circuit for viewing.

The new vantage points mean that spectators will be able to watch racing at Oulton Park up at the Island hairpin and see Shell Oils corner and the racing down Hill Top which was previously unavailable.

Oulton Park is owned by MotorSport Vision who have invested lots of money into the facilities at Oulton Park race circuit. This season the opening racing will take place over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend of 3rd-5th April and will get off with a bang as the British GT & British F3 championship starts their campaigns at Oulton Park.

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- Filed under: Motorsport, Racing Circuits
- Tags: Motorsprt Vision, Oulton Park, Oulton Park improvements, Oulton Park viewing — @ 5:54 pm

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February 4, 2010

Virgin Racing VR-01 car launched

Virgin Racing have unveiled their VR-01 car on their website yesterday and plan to have it on the Silverstone race track to put it through it’s paces Thursday and Friday (today and tomorrow).

virgin racing vr 01 Virgin Racing VR 01 car launched The car was designed by using Computer Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and not the standard method of making scale models of the car to test in a wind tunnel.
This is the first time an F1 car has been designed solely in this digital method with the designer, Nick Wirth, saying that in future this is the way all F1 cars will be designed.

The 2 Virgin Racing drivers who will be no doubt chomping at the bit to put the VR-01 through it’s paces on the Silverstone race circuit and no doubt it will be a very memorable Silverstone driving experience for them both. The 2 drivers are Timo Glock and Lucas di Grassi.

Both drivers have “driven” the car for the last 2 months, but only on a simulator so it is certainly going to be good for them to see if it performs like it should through the simulators.

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- Filed under: Motorsport, Uncategorized
- Tags: Silverstone driving experience, Virgin Racing, VR-01 — @ 3:51 pm

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October 23, 2009

Silverstone may still get Formula 1 Grand Prix unless Donnington Park secure funds

Donnington Park was meant to be the new home for the Formula 1 British Grand Prix as of next year for the next seventeen years but now it looks like Silverstone may in fact be back in the race to get to retain it if Donnington Park don’t come up with funds!

Donnington Park have been given 14 days to get the £50 million that it said it would raise to host the 2010 British Grand Prix by Bernie Ecclestone.
Ecclestone is the man who basically owns the rights to Formula One and calls the shots as to what happens with it and he may well open negotiations up again with the owners of Silverstone, the British Racing Drivers’ Club, if Donnington Park do not come up with the money.

The BRDC will not go for a one year deal that would act as a stop-gap to allow Donnington Park to get themse;lves sorted for the next year, they will want a longer 17 year deal to keep the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Ecclestone claimed that Silverstone had in the past promised things that did not happen and he will not stand for this to happen again. There was so many years where Silverstone race circuit was not up to scratch to host the Grand Prix and it has taken allot of time, money and effort to bring it to the standard that it is today.

Ex-Formula 1 world Champion Damon Hill is the BRDC’s president and has said:

We want to provide a really great venue for the fans but in order to do that we will need to have the kind of contract which provides enough scope to develop the facilities without too much risk to the company going bust.

We shall have to see in 2 weeks time if Donnington Park can secure the funds or if Silverstone will in fact be back in the game and maybe able to keep their hands on the British Formula one Grand Prix.

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- Filed under: Motorsport
- Tags: Formula 1, Formula 1 at Silverstone, Formula 1 Donnington Park, Silverstone race circuit — @ 3:02 pm

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October 19, 2009

Jenson Button F1 Brawn GP Model Cars

With Jenson Button becoming the 10th British Formula 1 World Champion it is only natural that many people want to have a Jenson Button Model Car as a memento of this brilliant achievement.

There are various Brawn GP model cars available but we anticipate that there will be a number of new Brawn GP model cars and Jenson Button model cars becoming available very soon.

Minichamps have both 1:43 scale and 1:18 scale models, the 1:43 scale come in at around £33 with the 1:18 scale model cars priced at around £59.

For those with very deep pockets you can grab yourself a 1:8 scale model of the Brawn GP Formula 1 car although they do come with a price tag of just short of £3,000!

View Brawn GP model cars

For those who don’t want a Jenson Button or Brawn scale model car there is also the option of official Brawn GP team wear.

The official Brawn GP motor sport team wear includes Tshirts and Polo Shirts, vest body warmers, caps, bags & wallets.

With the Brawn GP team having a sponsorship with Henry Lloyd you are also buying official team wear that is made by a quality fashion clothing manufacturer and wearing the same clothing as the team themselves wear so you can show your support for Brawn GP.

View all Brawn GP team wear

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- Tags: Brawn GP model cars, Brawn GP team wear, Formula 1 scale model cars, Jenson Button model cars — @ 2:16 pm

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Button scores more points finishing fifth to win World Championship than the whole of last season

Jenson Buttons fifth places at São Paulo, Brazil, scored him 4 World Champions points which was enough to clinch him the Formula 1 World Championship, this is 1 more point than he managed to score in the WHOLE of the 2008 season!

In 2008, racing for the BAR Honda team, Button managed to score a grand total of just 3 points and finished in a miserable 18th position. Yesterdays 5th position got the British driver 4 points and has upped his total (with 1 race to go) to 89 points.

It goes a long way to show that the car that is beneath the driver makes such a huge difference to how they perform and it is thanks to Brawn GP having a great car at the start of the season that saw Jenson Button win 6 of the first 7 races and Brawn GP win the first 8 races!

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- Tags: Brawn GP, Formula 1 driving, Jenson Button, Jenson Button scores more points in 1 race than the whole of last season, Single seater driving — @ 1:27 pm

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