Despite it being a new era for global touring car competition, seven tin-top action heroes are still setting the benchmarks
Remember that movie The Expendables? If it passed you by, you can be forgiven (it was never going to trouble the BAFTAs). But it’s the one where all those cheesy action heroes of the 1980s and ’90s – Sylvester Stallone, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Dolph Lundgren, Jet Li and more...
* Caterham withdrew its Le Mans 24 Hours entry soon after announcing its plans to return to the LMP2 category with the Greaves Zytek team. Caterham pulled the plug on its programme, which included an assault on the European Le Mans Series, after being listed as third reserve for Le Mans.
* Toyota has reshuffled its driver line-up for this year’s WEC. Stéphane Sarrazin will join Alex Wurz and...
Mat Oxley
Lorenzo vs Márquez
Lorenzo’s Sepang complaint was farcical considering his earlier treatment of Márquez. When we asked Lorenzo during the post-race media conference if he had indeed touched Márquez – even though we knew damn well that he had – Lorenzo said, “I don’t know… I don’t remember, but I don’t think we touched.”
Johnny Mowlem
The highs and lows of motor sport
I watched in awe...
The popular. eclectic VLN is one of the most important insurance series in Europe thanks to its links with the famous Nürburgring 24 Hours
We can't see anything and we're doing 140mph — there's so much standing water that all we can do is just listen out for other cars. Whoompf, a Porsche 997 GT3 R blasts past us on the left.
The driver of our slightly worn out BMW M3 quickly moves to that side...
Nurburgring firm wins caseRon Simons' RSRNurburg company has won its court case against Niirburgring Automotive GmbH at the German High Court.
In the May issue of Motor Sport, we detailed the dispute between the track's current management team and RSRNurburg — a car rental, driver training and track day company. The latter had been accused of running unsafe cars on the Nordschleife and banned...
July
15: Active ride and traction control are banned from F1 forthwith as FISA's World Motor Sports Council meets in Paris.
16: Jaguar loses its Le Mans GT victory. The ACO's decision to exclude the X1220C has nothing to do with technical regulations; rather, the race organiser points out that Jaguar ran in the race under appeal, but had failed to comply with the correct appeal procedure....