Top Cars For Motorsports Darryl Sleath Articles, Uncategorized Motorsports is a broad term that encompasses everything from drag racing and drifting to motocross, rally car racing, and even monster truck shows. It's an exciting way to get your adrenaline pumping and test your skills behind the wheels of some of the most...
Who were the winners of the ’60s Wacky Races … and its spinoff spoof? Darryl Sleath Articles I ruddy loved the Wacky Races. Every Saturday morning – after TISWAS but before Grandstand– my brothers and I would bet Panini football stickers on who was going to win these cartoon motorsport capers using a crude odds system that I’d cunningly...
Pape’s Progress – The Automotive Adventures of a Tally-Ho hero and his Austin A90 Steve Swanson Articles, Roadtripping 4 Comments In July 1955, an Austin A90 Westminster departed London on a mission to venture where no motorcar had gone before: a journey of seventeen thousand miles, from the North Cape of Europe to the Southern Cape of Africa. Behind the wheel was a mercurial former...
Formula E’s Expected Growth MotorPunk Articles When it comes to motorsports, it's difficult not to envision a combustion engine with high-performance modifications. However, it's even more challenging to think developers could reduce functionality and engineering to fit specific models that only consider...
The Abominable Lotus- Classic Europa Suffers Identity Crisis Steve Swanson Articles If you are a fan of all things Lotus I beseech you, look away now. Recently imported from the US, this poor thing has been under the knife and it hasn’t aged well. Underneath the putrid, risible, carapace is a Lotus Europa S2 begging, no,...
Road Trip Prepping With Help From T-lab Darryl Sleath Articles, Kitbag Planning a post-pandemic road trip? Well, you're not alone. Most motoring researchers reckon that in a post-COVID world, more and more folks will be shunning the budget airlines and rental cars in favour of self-guided automotive adventures in their own...
The Bends – A sartorial celebration by t-lab Darryl Sleath Articles, Kitbag Don’t fret MotorPunks, this isn’t some piece on seminal 90s albums or anything about giddy frogmen. No, today we are going to have a natter about some of the world’s most testing turns, iconic curves and hallowed hairpins; those singular track features...
Yesterday’s car crimes; VW badges, stolen stereos, joyriding and cut and shuts Rich Duisberg Articles 4 Comments As fans of classic cars we often chunter about how mundane the majority of modern cars seem to be, yet there is no doubting that modern cars have their advantages. As much as we talk about taking a family of five on holiday to the south of France in a Lancia...
Reliant Robins go banger racing. The most entertaining motorsport ever. Rich Duisberg Articles, Motorsport for the Poor, Out & About Banger racing. It’s the past, and the future, and the most entertaining form of motorsport I’ve watched in a very long time. I had intended to watch the Russian Grand Prix highlights but after some selfish oaf spoiled the result for me I drove over to...
