Category: Events
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The return of racing to London’s Crystal Palace
Motorsport enthusiasts will get an opportunity to relive part of the golden age of racing this Bank Holiday weekend with an event celebrating a little-known former London racetrack.
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Slot car winners who showed off their design skills
Slot car racing giant Scalextric has announced the winners of a schools’ racing competition held at the Donington Park Slot Car Festival last weekend.
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Project Runningblade sets new world land speed record – for a lawnmower
The fastest grass-cutter in history demonstrated its credentials on a Welsh beach this weekend to set not one but two world land speed records.
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Donington Slot Car Festival: size isn’t everything
On a busy weekend for racing, with Indy 500 qualifying reaching a climax and British racers taking to the track across Europe, Brits on Pole cast aside its grown-up responsibilities and headed north to relive the pastimes of its youth at the International Donington Slot Car Festival.
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How one man’s racing fix could spark a whole new sport
If Puretech is to succeed in its ambition of inventing the new sport of competitive simulator racing, it’s essential that the technology matches the company’s ambition.
Tagged as: Puretech Racing
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Bone-shaking and thrilling in about equal measure
For a moment, as the race began, everything went just perfectly. Slow get-aways by the two cars starting on the front row allowed me to shoot the gap between them and hare off into the distance.
Tagged as: Puretech Racing
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The Puretech challenge – it’s only a game if you want it to be
“Racing’s got to change – the age of just watching it on the television is dead,” says Puretech creative director Tim Ball as he introduces his company’s system of ultra-realistic networked race simulators. “But we don’t want to replace it – we want to enhance it.”
Tagged as: Puretech Racing
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Young kart champion to represent Britain
A young karting champion has been chosen to represent Britain on the international stage according to the sport’s governing body.
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Silverstone Classic to feature Italian superstars
The line-up for this summer’s Silverstone Classic has been announced – and foremost among the famous faces appearing at the event will be a fleet of race-ready Fiat 500 Abarths.