Admittedly, John Cleland and his Vectra have been toiling for the last few months. Indeed, the double BTCC Champion even missed the start of this year’s HSCC Super Turing Car Championship with engine-trouble, despite a winter rebuild and endless hours in the garage and on the web scouring the globe for parts…
Monthly Archives: May 2017
Super Touring Race Highlights from 2016
We’re now just a matter of days away from the 2017 David Leslie Super Touring Car Festival at Knockhill (3/4 June); so we thought we’d turn the clock back to 2016 and have a look at the two races that took place for the HSCC Super Touring Car Championship at Knockhill over…
Catching up with BTCC legend Tim Harvey
Last week we caught up with 1992 British Touring Car Champion, and double Porsche Carrera Cup Champion, Tim Harvey. You may recognise Tim more for his punditry on ITV Sport covering the current incarnation of the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship; but back in the day, Tim was a household name…
Strong English Team For Pro-Am Challenge At Knockhill
With battle set to resume at Knockhill in under three weeks’ time, which hosts round four of the 2017 MCE British Superbike Championship over the weekend of June 16/18, interest has been increasing in the inaugural Anglo Scottish Pro-Am Challenge which is set to take place that weekend. Fresh from a strong…
Super Touring Car Weekend Timetable Released
The timetable for the David Leslie Super Touring Car Festival has been released and features a 24 strong race schedule across Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th June. This event will be a bumper two-day event and also see a number of additional features, including the visiting Super Touring Car Championship, the Junior…
Super Touring Car Entry List Announced
The highly anticipated entry for The David Leslie Super Touring Car Festival has now been unveiled. The 14 (possibly 15) car strong field, boasts 7 different marques from the heyday of the British Super Touring Car era. Double BTCC champion and Scottish motorsport legend John Cleland features on the list in an ex…
Win a passenger ride in the MCE BSB i8 Safety Car!
BMW is the “Official Car of BSB” for the coming three years following a partnership agreement between BMW Group UK and MotorSport Vision Racing and here is your chance to win a passenger ride. The provision of Safety Cars, along with the remainder of the support vehicles, lies at the heart of…
From Bute to glory — Sato wins Indy500
JAPANESE DRIVER TAKUMA SATO— who once drove an F1 car on the Isle of Bute — took victory in a dramatic Indianapolis 500, as the unreliability of the Honda engine cost Andretti team-mate Fernando Alonso the opportunity to win America’s Blue Riband race on his debut, writes Jim McGill. CLICK HERE to…
KMSC May Event Highlights 2017
Once again, the top Scottish motorcycles riders rocked up to Knockhill this weekend (27/28 May) for another non-stop race meeting that saw seven Championship classes compete on track, with over 130 riders taking part in a 31-race schedule over two days. A fast and frantic weekend was made even better with glorious…
Mitchell and Haggerty bag British GT4 win
SCOTS TEENAGER SANDY MITCHELL, partnered by team-mate Ciaran Haggerty, scored his first win of the year when the duo claimed victory in the latest round of the British GT4 Championship at Snetterton, writes Jim McGill. CLICK HERE to read full report