With the British Touring Car Championship at ESM’sĀ homeĀ circuit, there was never any doubt as to whether we would be in attendance. But, would it be a Sunday to remember, or another snooze-fest like Oulton Park? Our BTCC Correspondent tells the story below: After Oulton Park, things could only get better for the BTCC and they…
Category: Motorsport
2015 Goodwood Festival of Speed – The Racers Gallery
Whilst the Festival of Speed has grown to become the de facto British motor show, it’s still all about the epic racing cars that tackle the hill climb course. Our second 2015 galleryĀ featuresĀ some of the exotic and expensive machinery found inĀ the paddock.
2015 Le Mans Gallery – Porsche takes historic 17th win with 1-2 finish
Ok, we’ll hold our hands up. We didn’t predict this in our Friday Photo Gallery. Nope, we overlookedĀ the pace of the Porsches in qualifying and, instead, went for another Audi victory. We were wrong, even if we had predictedĀ it a year ago. ButĀ congratulations to Porsche forĀ surprising us with a rather impressive 1-2 win! In what…
BTCC 2015 – Oulton Park | Reviewed and Rated
ESM’s BTCC Correspondent isn’t one for holding back on his opinions. What did he make of the latest rounds? ***Start of report*** ***Snoozefest*** ***End of report*** My short review above of the latest British Touring Car Championship rounds may be jovial, but I find it to be highly accurate. Of course, issues were still raised…
Friday Photo – Six Retro Themed Toyota GT86 for Goodwood
We like the Toyota GT86. We also like retro-racer inspired liveries. So a bundle of six GT86s finished in classic Toyota racing colour schemes sounds like a pretty good deal to us! Celebrating someĀ 50 years of Toyota motorsport heritage, the six models have been vinyl-wrapped, lowered by 40mm, had stainless steel exhausts fitted and Rota…
Friday Photo – Retro Livery for Nissan GT-R LM P1 NISMO
Ask any bearded hipster and they’ll happily tell you that retro is obviously cool. This fact isĀ seemingly not lost on motorsport teams, with Nissan choosing to clad one of the Le Mans GT-R racersĀ in a colour scheme from 25Ā years ago. Anyone who has played Gran TurismoĀ series will recognise the blue, red and white colours as…
New Audi R8 LMS wins 2015 NĆ¼rburgring 24 Hours
With all the road carĀ testing that goes on there, it’s sometimes easy to forget that theĀ NĆ¼rburgring is still a real – andĀ dangerous – race track. TheĀ NĆ¼rburgring 24 Hours remains one of the biggest challenges in motorsport,Ā but Audi took victory last weekend. To say the new Audi R8 LMS was box-fresh at itsĀ NĆ¼rburgring debut was perhaps…
BTCC 2015 – Thruxton | Reviewed and Rated
EngageSportMode’s BTCC Correspondent returns with his take on all the action, or lack of, from Thruxton. A year ago, ESM visited Thruxton for not a particularly enjoyable experience and although ESM werenāt there in person this year, the action hardly set many viewing pulses racing. Thatās not to say the racing was bad, it just…
Friday Photo – Senna’s Toleman-Hart TG184-2 for sale
If you’ve got Ā£1million spare, you could be the owner of this rather special piece of Ayrton Senna history. But is there more than meets the eye with this car? Currently on sale with specialist luxury car dealer Prindiville in London, this Toleman-Hart TG184-2 was driven by Senna during his rookie F1 year in 1984….
BTCC 2015 – Donington Park | Rated and Reviewed
Although we’ve already discussed ITV’s coverage of the BTCC, ourĀ Touring Car Correspondent gives his opinions on whether the races at Donington Park were worth getting so worked up over. After 5 rounds of the BTCC, I still didnāt have that excitement about the championship that Iāve had in previous seasons. However, in one race that…
Editorial – An open letter to ITV Motorsport
Getting a full day’s live motorsport on TV, for free, is something to be celebrated. So what has got ESM’s editor so fired up about ITV’s British Touring Car Championship coverage? Ask yourself this; when was the last time you really wished motorsport coverage would switch to show people stood in the pits, rather than something…
Hyundai’s New Generation i20 WRC Car – Now due 2016
Although Hyundai has only been in the World Rally Championship with the i20 since last year, there’s already a new version on the way. It just might be a little later than planned. It did seem somewhat strange that Hyundai would introduce a rally version of a car already nearing the end of its production…
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