“I’m Laurence Norrington-Parois, and I’m the one who kicked your ass”. Rich Duisberg Motorsport for the Poor She asked me for some help on writing something about the exploits of her team, TrackPrep Racing. The memorable one-liner in the title here came out as we chatted at Donington and seems a fitting headline. I said I’d write up our conversation and quickly...
Bygone Banger Rally Bargains & Future Classics Darryl Sleath CarClub 18-30 - The Cars, Road Rallies 8 Comments Most low-rent petrolheads, including the scruffy ensemble we find hunched over the classifieds at MotorPunk HQ, all wish that they could predict which affordable modern classics of today are likely to become the wise investments and auction money-spinners of...
A Maserati roadtrip to France’s forgotten racetracks – Charade Rich Duisberg Articles, Roadtripping 1 Comment I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking; How come there are so few decent photographs of that lovely Maserati Quattroporte GTS? Well, there are two reasons. Firstly, this roadtrip was done to create a little series of documentaries for our friends...
Enrico Nardi’s other work Rich Duisberg Articles, Features 2 Comments I wonder how many MX-5 owners know where their Nardi steering wheel comes from. EBay isn’t the answer, there’s more to the name than that. The man, Enrico Nardi, was born in 1907 in Bologna. He was a practical joker, racer and first class Engineer and...
Ospedaletti: San Remo’s Maserati to Monaco’s Ferrari. Rich Duisberg Roadtripping 1 Comment Anyone interested in historic motorsport will know Monaco. “A sunny place for shady people”, someone once said, someone with a better turn of phrase than what I got. Amongst the apartment blocks housing tax exiles, and around the harbour with its moored...
Eric’s “obscene” electric Ferrari 308 Rich Duisberg Articles, Features Ferrari’s CEO Sergio Marchionne once said that a Ferrari without an internal combustion engine would be “an obscene concept”. An American friend of a friend of MotorPunk thinks he knows better. His story starts with a fire-damaged 1978 Ferrari 308GTS....
GoFundMe – Bribery money needed for our 24 hours of Lemons entry! Rich Duisberg Motorsport for the Poor Here is a link to GoFundMe - Bribery money is needed for our 24 hours of Lemons entry. As you'll read in the link, the world's best shonky car endurance race is perhaps the only one in the world where bribery is tolerated. To that end we are fundraising to...
24 Hours of Lemons – Alternative endurance racing – race report from NHMS Oct ’22 Rich Duisberg Motorsport for the Poor Hello. This is us. When I learned that, in the 24 Hours of Lemons motorsport series, one driver penalty is having a steel pig welded to your roof, that one team had a livery dictated to Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha, and that the likes of a Lloyd...
The Sky Plaza Hotel hillclimb – back in an Elise (long read) Rich Duisberg Motorsport for the Poor I went back in my Elise to a place we would once meet. On odd weekday evenings, in particular, word would go around and we’d all just arrive without anyone having actually organised anything. No mobiles, then. Those were the best times. The Sky Plaza Hotel...
