20/05/20

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Motorsport Gets A Green Light
With the gradual easing of the conditions of the lockdown that the country has faced comes the encouraging news that circuits will once again echo to the sound of racing engines: well, MotorSport Vision venues, at least. Times have been tough for ev
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Silverstone Circuit To Double Up In Rejigged Formula 1 2020 Schedule
Bosses of the Silverstone circuit have reached a provisional agreement with Formula 1 chiefs to host two behind-closed-doors grands prix in July and early August to help flesh out the likely 2020 schedule. The final agreement has yet to be rubber st
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Ferrari Considering Indycar Entry
Ferrari boss Mattia Binotto has confirmed the team is evaluating an entry to IndyCar, possibly for as soon as 2022, due to Formula 1’s forthcoming budget cap. Binotto told Sky Sport Italia that such a move would be in addition to F1 rather than inste
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Ferrari Produces Low-cost Ventilator
Ferrari has unveiled a low-cost pulmonary ventilator which the Formula 1 team designed and built in just five weeks, with the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), to help battle coronavirus. Ferrari described the device as ‘a reliable, versatile, e
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RICCIARDO ‘PERFECT FIT’ FOR McLAREN AS SAINZ GOES TO FERRARI
Sebastian Vettel’s decision to part ways with Ferrari last week triggered a bout of grand prix seat shuffling which means Lando Norris is retained at McLaren alongside Daniel Ricciardo, while Carlos Sainz will leave the British team and head to Ferra
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Franchitti And Plato Lead Brdc Charity Esports All-star Line-up
Dario Franchitti and Jason Plato lead an all-star driver lineup for the new BRDC Esports Championship that is raising money for the NHS. The five-race contest for virtual Formula 3 cars was devised by BRDC SuperStars director Andy Meyrick. It has 37
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Indycar St Petersburg Round Switched To Season’s End And Will Sign Off A 14-round Campaign
This year’s IndyCar championship finale will take place at St Petersburg on October 25 after the street race, down originally as 2020’s season-opener, was rescheduled. Florida’s traditional curtain-raiser round, set initially for March 15 this year,
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Msv UK Circuits Reopening This Week
MotorSport Vision’s circuits in the UK were set to reopen this week for track activity following the coronavirus-related lockdown as Motorsport News went to press. MSV operates Brands Hatch, Cadwell Park, Donington Park, Oulton Park, Snetterton as w
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No To The Goodwood Members’ Meeting In 2020
The Goodwood Members’ Meeting, originally scheduled for late March, has now been cancelled completely for 2020. The event was initially postponed as the coronavirus took hold and the team at Goodwood hoped to find a slot for the event later in the se
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British Gt Revised 2020 Calendar Released
British GT championship bosses have unveiled a revised provisional 2020 calendar beginning in earlyAugust assuming the lifting of UK motorsport’s current suspension due to coronavirus. The new schedule is made up of nine races – five sprint and four
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In Brief
Multiple British GT champion and Le Mans 24 Hour winner Jonny Adam was a surprise guest addition to the driver line-up for last Sunday’s opening round of British Formula 3’s inaugural iRacing Championship. A 26-strong grid was in place for Oulton Par
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FIA Historic Championships’ Fate Decided At End Of June
The FIAwill decide on the future of its historic championships in 2020 by the end of June amid the impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Paolo Cantarella, the president of the FIAHistoric Motor Sport Commission, has said that the body is monitoring the
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Safari Rally Falls Under The Health Fear
The World Rally Championship won’t return to Kenya this year following confirmation the Safari Rally has been postponed. Motorsport News reported last month the event wouldn’t happen in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic but now the cancellation ha
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Evans: Ireland Would Add Something New To The World Championship
Plans for a World Rally Championship round in Northern Ireland have received a boost from an unlikely source: Welshman Elfyn Evans. As Motorsport News revealed earlier this month, funding-led discussions are continuing regarding a Rally GB away from
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In Brief
Organisers of the French World Rallycross Championship round at Loheac have said a decision on whether the 2020 event will go ahead will be made by the end of this month. Planned for the first weekend in September, the event holds its original date i
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Rally Drivers Can Test In Italy – Without Co-drivers
Rally drivers were due to resume testing in Italy at the start of the week – but without co-drivers by their side. As Motorsport News went to press, new Italian government legislation due to come into effect from May 18 is expected to allow “athletes
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Paasonen Returns To World Rx With Own Team
Jani Paasonen will race an ex-MJP Racing Ford Fiesta Supercar in World Rallycross Championship events as he eyes a programme in the category’s forthcoming electric era. The Finn participated in select rounds of World RX last year with Team STARD but
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Tanak Feared Position Within Hyundai
World Rally champion Ott Tanak feared he wouldn’t get the same treatment as long-term Hyundai driver Thierry Neuville when he joined the Korean squad for 2020. Tanak left Toyota for the Germany-based outfit, which Neuville has driven for since 2014.
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Pryce Hasn’t Lost Hope Of World Rally Return
Osian Pryce has reiterated his desire to return to the World Rally Championship and had planned to contest a handful of WRC events in 2021 before the coronavirus pandemic took hold. Pryce thinks a lot of people believe mistakenly that his aspiration
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Revised Three-round Calendar For Bhrc
British Historic Rally Championship organisers are planning to run three events in the latter part of the year, subject to rallying being able to restart. The three rounds are due to be the Trackrod Historic Cup (September 25-26), Carlisle Stages (Oc
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BMW Switch For British Rallycross Star Woloch
British Supernational rallycross driver Slawomir Woloch will step out of his ex-Liam Doran Ford Fiesta and race a brand-new BMW M3 in 2020. Woloch sampled an Automax Motorsport BMW M3 in a pair of events at the end of 2018 before commissioning a new
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In Brief
There could be no Billy Coleman Award winner in 2020 for the first time in its 20-year history if rallying fails to resume this year. Should that happen, it is believed Motorsport Ireland Academy drivers Josh McErlean, James Wilson and Callum Devine
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Fassbender Stars In Rally Of The Lakes Documentary
A documentary charting film star Michael Fassbender’s rallying debut on last year’s Rally of the Lakes has been released. Fassbender piloted Gary McPhillips’ modified Ford Escort Mk2 alongside Barry Goodman on the stages near where he grew up, but
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James Gornall The Btcc Newcomer Who’s Ready To Turn Heads
It was hard not to feel a little bit sorry for the competitors in this year’s British Touring Car Championship. Preparations for the 2020 season were virtually complete. The announcement that the 30-race contest had been delayed came halfway through
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James Gornall
Age: 35 From: Nottinghamshire 2020: British Touring Car Championship with Trade Price Cars Racing in an Audi S3 2019: Mini Challenge UK champion, five wins, champion 2018: Guest appearances in Mini Challenge UK 2015-2017: BMW Compact Cup, champi
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Derek Warwick
Derek Warwick was the blue-eyed boy of British motorsport in the early 1980s, but nothing came easy. He had started his Formula 1 career in probably the most unwieldy chassis on the grid, and used his determination and persistence to make the very mo
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David Addison
They are wrong, whoever they are. You can teach an old dog new tricks. I speak as someone who, like many these last months, has been thrown into a virtual world of motor racing and has had their eyes opened. I can’t say that sim racing is the future
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How Sebastian Vettel Was Spat Out Of The Ferrari Revolving Door
How did it come to this: one of Ferrari’s most successful drivers in history being willingly left to slink out of the back door, a victor of 53 Formula 1 races and four world titles set to be remembered for everything he didn’t win? There were hints
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Will Alonso Be Given A Second Chance?
Driver market moves in Formula 1 are like dominoes. There is healthy speculation that the knock-on effect of Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari exit will facilitate the sensational return of Fernando Alonso. Vettel’s exit and Ferrari’s move to replace him wi
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Formula Vee: The Championship That “Ticks All The Boxes”
Formula Vee, to the casual motorsport observer, may not elicit too much in a word-association test. Perhaps most common would be that the championship for singleseaters with an air-cooled 1300cc Volkswagen Beetle engine and front beam axle, is viewed
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The Rumble Of Engines
Those involved in Formula Vee struggle to cite readily things that should be changed about the category. But one matter that does arise is the formula’s hardy air-cooled 1300cc Volkswagen Beetle engine. “The big problem we have with the 1300 engine [
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Fantastic Five Mn Circuit Rally Championship’s First Half Decade Of Success
Junction 2 on the M40 isn’t the usual birthplace of a rally championship. But back in May 2015, Beaconsfield Services was the setting for a handshake between Darren Spann of Bolton Le Moors Car Club, James Bolton, then of Motorsport News, and Davids
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JONATHAN PALMER Q&A
Why were you interested in helping create the MNCRC? What’s in it for MotorSport Vision? “Firstly I think it’s great club motorsport! I love seeing a great variety of cars competing, and knowing that many of these are competitor-prepared, as well as
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Five Seasons So Far
The championship’s inaugural season became a shootout between James Sharrock’s Escort Mk2 and Ashley Field’s Darrian. While Field enjoyed a pace advantage, reliability proved his undoing and Sharrock’s impeccable consistency yielded him the title des
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Mncrc Hall Of Fame
2 titles: Chris West 1 title: James Sharrock, Ian Woodhouse, Barry Morris 10 wins: Chris West 6 wins: Frank Bird 5 wins: David Tinn 10 wins: Peugeot 306 Maxi 7 wins: Ford Escort Mk2 6 wins Ford Focus WRC 17 wins: All-wheel drive 13 wins: Rear-whee
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Mateja Bags Mn Chris Ingram Title With Victory In Scotland
It came down to two. Lukas Mateja knew just a solid top 10 result would secure him the Motorsport News Chris Ingram Rally Challenge title. Pedro Silva knew he had to beat Mateja to land the title which, given Mateja’s form, meant he effectively had t
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Luke Barry
sports detractors look away E now, because the Motorsport News Chris Ingram Rally Challenge had it all. How many seasons of rallying come down to an epic final stage shoot-out? Really not that many. And how many others allow you and I to battle world
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What’s On What’s On YouTube
The news that Sebastian Vettel is to step away from Ferrari, and possibly from Formula 1, at the year’s end has brought with it the reflections. And, as seems the case with all modern-day F1 front-liners, the four-time champion divides opinion in and
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TV Guide
Are you upset that this weekend’s Monaco Grand Prix has been cancelled? Tune into Sky Sports F1 because it has you covered with a plethora of Monaco-themed programmes. Extensive highlights of the 2016 (1100hrs-1320hrs), 2017 (1330hrs-1555hrs) and 201

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