MotorSport News Archive
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West Sussex rally stars Clive Wheeler and Ken Bartram head for the forests of North Wales next Saturday [3 April] for the Astra Stages, round two of the Peugeot Total 206 Super Cup. full story |
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The latest driver to join the John Cooper Challenge is Rob Austin, best known for heading Formula Renault team Startline Racing Services in the 1990s. The Hampshire racer will end a 14-year break from racing to tackle the JCC. full story |
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A furious battle for victory in the B class race and a storming back-to-front A class drive made real crowd-pleasers of both of today's (Sun) Motorsport News Caterham Roadsport Challenge season openers at Donington Park. full story |
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Britain's most competitive sports car championship, the Powertrain Caterham R400 Challenge in association with Autosport, blasts back into action again next weekend (3/4 April) and the scene is set for some real track fireworks. full story |
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The organisers of the Jim Clark Memorial Rally have announced details of this year's event which sees the rally return its base to the Scottish Borders. full story |
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Competitors in the 2004 Kwik-Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship can benefit from speciality racing fuels and lubricants, as well as world championship-winning expertise from Shell Racing Solutions. full story |
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 The TMG Taftsport.com Rally Team are looking forward to this weekend’s Astra Stages after being given a last minute reprieve. full story |
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Virgin Mobile Yamaha R6 Cup – Round 1 – Silverstone – 28th March 2004 full story |
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TOP RIDERS HEAD FOR CROFT full story |
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Just over a month ago on the Rallye Sunseeker in Bournemouth, Dorian Rees and Aberystwyth co-driver, Patrick Walsh, showed determination and speed by finishing behind a Works supported driver in the tough and competitive Group N showroom class, also claiming the second Subaru spot behind the event winner Roger Duckworth despite having never contested the rally previously. Rees will feel a little more confident when he competes on the North Wales based Astra Stages Rally on Saturday 3rd April. full story |
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Sutton Coldfield youngster Andrew Jordan got his bid for the British Junior Rallycross Championship off to a flying start in Northern Ireland over the weekend (27/28 March). full story |
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The classic forest stages of North Wales will be the setting for round two of the Armajaro MSA British Historic Rally Championship during the Astra Stages on Saturday 3 April. full story |
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  BTRDA Rally Championship – Round 3 – North Humberside Forest Stages Rally, Hull – Saturday 27th March VK Vodka Kick Rally Team driver Steve Perez saw his disappointment of not winning today’s North Humberside Forest Stages Rally tempered by the fact that he scored maximum points in round three of the BTRDA Rally Championship based in Hull. full story |
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The Fiat Stilo Rally Cup kicked off to a flying, if windy, start at last weekend's BRC Live at Nuneaton in Warwickshire. Five of the striking Broom Yellow one-make series cars attended the pre-British Rally Championship shakedown and PR day. full story |
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Paul Tod Rallying took part in Sunday's BRC Live! in Nuneaton to officially launch the Kall Kwik Pirelli British Rally Championship season. full story |
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Toca has today informed teams that it has been forced to abandon plans for the second of the two Brands Hatch meetings to take place on the Grand Prix circuit. Both BTCC meetings at Brands Hatch this year will now take place on the shorter Indy track. full story |
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The women drivers to watch out for in the 2004 Kwik-Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship full story |
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Having won the prestigious British Superbike championship – recognised as the world’s toughest domestic race series – for two years in succession MonsterMob are renewing their partnership with French helmet manufacturer Shark for the coming 2004 season. full story |
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British Superbike Championship – Round 1 – Silverstone, Northants – 27/28 March full story |
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  Europe’s largest retail finance provider Cetelem has joined forces with MonsterMob Ducati for 2004. full story |
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The FIA World Motor Sports Council has today confirmed the full championship status of the Wales Rally GB, Britain’s round of the World Rally Championship, in September for 2004. full story |
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The 2004 motor racing season at the magnificent Rockingham Motor Speedway kicks off over the weekend of Saturday/Sunday April 3rd/4th as the British Automobile Racing Club organises a 13-race programme of national racing. full story |
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At just 14 years of age, Andrew Jordan is about to embark on his first full season of motorsport. The Sutton Coldfield youngster will be competing in the British Junior Rallycross Championship, which starts with a double-header event in Northern Ireland this weekend (27/28 March). full story |
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The 2004 Ordnance Survey Ireland Rally of the Lakes is to include a Junior Rally for the first time. The innovative move by Killarney & District Motor Club, which has been approved by Motorsport Ireland, will see young rally drivers tackle four of the stages used by the International event on Sunday, May 2nd. The Junior Rally of the Lakes will be open to drivers under the age of 27 years, competing in cars of no greater engine capacity than two litres. full story |
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Ludlow driver John Worthing has pledged to bounce back into contention on the second round of the 2004 Armajaro MSA British Historic Rally Championship. full story |
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C.S Rallysport Ltd drivers Luke Pinder from Shipley and James Walker from Wakefield will benefit from a major sponsorship deal from Autocar Electrical Limited. full story |
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Gareth Jones announced at the 2004 BRC (British Rally Championship) Live! event, Britain's premier rally series season opener at Bramcote Barracks Warwickshire, financial backing from high street chain the gadgetshop to help fund his drive this season. full story |
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BRC Live 2004 marks the first public appearance in the UK of newly-created Dealer Team Suzuki and its star driver, 23-year old Guy Wilks (Darlington, County Durham). full story |
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The triumphant World Championship debut of the Rally of full story |
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With 56 championship registrations, the Motorsport News Caterham Roadsport Challenge starts its 2004 campaign next Sunday (28 Mar) in rude health and fine form for a classic season of competition. full story |
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East Anglian brothers Neil and Chris Parsons have ended a long break from rallying to contest the 2004 Armajaro MSA British Historic Rally Championship. full story |
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VX Racing hit the track at Donington Park this week for an all-team test and unveiled its new livery for the assault on the 2004 MSA Green Flag British Touring Car Championship. full story |
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SEAT Sport UK’s Toledo Cupras completed 150 miles of trouble-free testing at Donington Park yesterday, when they made their British track debut at the launch of the 2004 Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship (BTCC). full story |
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Formula Ford is in the limelight as the 2004 West Country motor racing season gets under way with the first meeting of the year at the Castle Combe Circuit on Saturday March 27. full story |
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The Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship today unveils its official 2004 entry list. In total, 24 registrations have been received to date for the 30-round championship - the BTCC’s biggest opening round grid since the mid-Nineties. full story |
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Twenty-one-year-old Sarah Reader is set to make Caterham racing history at Donington Park next month when she becomes the first female to race in the Powertrain Caterham R400 Challenge. full story |
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BRC Live 2004 marks the first public appearance in the UK of newly-created Dealer Team Suzuki and its star driver, 23-year old Guy Wilks (Darlington, County Durham). full story |
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Steve Loveridge will contest the balance of the Kumho National Rally Championship in an MG ZR. The Cinderford driver will mount an assault on class B11, starting with the Astra Stages on 3 April. Loveridge will be co-driven by Mark Sattin from Ross-on-Wye. full story |
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VX Racing Junior, a brand new race team has announced it will join the fight for the 2004 MSA Green Flag British Touring Car Championship. full story |
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Paul Tod Rallying held their official Stilo Cup launch on Friday (March 12th) at the Old Rectory Hotel and Conference Centre, Llangattock. full story |
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The Clio Super 1600 team managed by Enalta Sports are excited to announce none other than Alistair McRae's side kick, ex British Rally Champion and World Rally Championship co-driver David Senior riding shotgun for Gareth. full story |
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The BTCC will see yet another first this year, as Mardi Gras Motorsport enters a gas-powered ETCC spec Honda Civic Type-R for driver John George. full story |
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Organisers of the Kwik-Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship are hugely encouraged by the significant upsurge in entries to this year’s Championship. full story |
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NEMCRC Club Championships Round 1 – Saturday 20th and Sunday 21st March 2004 full story |
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MARCUS CLOSES CHAMPIONSHIP POINTS GAP full story |
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LEG 2 full story |
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LEG 1 full story |
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LIST OF PARTICIPANTS full story |
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Further details of the five Green Flag MSA British Touring Car Championship race meetings to be screened live by UK terrestrial television channel ITV1 have been released today. full story |
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Reigning Scottish Legends Cars Champion Jamie Clarke will move up into the National Championship for the 2004 season. Clarke, who has just two full seasons of racing under his belt, won the Scottish Championship in the last race of the season after a year long battle with double champion Colin Noble. Clarke has also gained a great deal of respect outside of the Scottish Championship by twice representing his country at the World Championships in America. On his first visit to Infineon Raceway he took third place (as a Semi Pro) and last year entered the Pro ranks and finished fourth. full story |
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The Corona Rally Mexico made a spectacular entrance into the FIA World Rally Championship as both Ford BP Rallye Sport cars ended yesterday's tough opening leg in points scoring positions. Markko Märtin and Michael Park lie fifth in their Ford Focus RS World Rally Car while team-mates François Duval and Stéphane Prévot are seventh in a similar car after a day in which the sport's new rules played an important part. full story |
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Leon (México) - Mitsubishi driver “Dani” Solà has used his Group N Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution to brilliant effect to build up a commanding lead in the Production class after the first leg of the Rally Mexico, the second round of the 2004 FIA Production Car World Rally Championship. Mitsubishis are occupying 13 of the top 20 places in this hotly fought contest, with current FIA Production Car WRC leader Jani Paasonen close behind Solà in third. full story |
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The Xsara WRCs of Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena and Carlos Sainz/MarcMarti returned to León tonight lying in first and third positions respectively. They are therefore in excellent places heading into the longest leg of the rally tomorrow. full story |
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Martin Rowe will demonstrate new Rally Buggy at BRC Live! full story |
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Croft Circuit have recently announced their 2004 calendar which will provide fans both locally and nationally with their best ever offering of top quality motorsport action on two, three and four wheels over the forthcoming season. full story |
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The Mitsubishi Motor Sports Team completed its final preparations testerday for the inaugural running of the Corona Rally México in 26°C with sunshine and partial cloud. Mitsubishi's regular crew of Gilles Panizzi and Hervé Panizzi will be joined by Italian teammates “Gigi” Galli and Guido D'Amore in the second registered Mitsubishi Lancer WRC04, for the third round of the FIA World Rally Championship. full story |
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The Fiat Stilo Rally Cup - BRC Live 21st March 2004 full story |
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The new format of the FIA World Rally Championship inaugurated yesterday afternoon the "two hours shakedown" instead of four. The traditional fine-tuning test started at 15.00 and finished at 17.00 local time (21.00 to 23.00 GMT), and took place in Tunamanza, 40 km South East of León. According to the drivers, the 5,9 km stage was representative of the rally routes. full story |
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Launch of the Kwik-Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship full story |
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Three cars team in the ETCC for SEAT: full story |
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Former works BTCC racer Patrick Watts made his rally debut on the opening round of the Armajaro MSA British Historic Rally Championship. Partnered by historic racer Nick Leston, Watts took his Sunbeam Tiger to an excellent sixth overall on the Robin Hood (6/7 March) and now plans to contest this weekend's Rally of Kent. full story |
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English Endeavour Rally will be a three-day event offering a taste of competitive motoring to disabled drivers in the UK, with the support of the 20,000-strong Disabled Drivers' Motor Club and its President, Lord Montagu of Beaulieu. As the DDMC's Chief Executive, Ed Passant says: "This event will make a wider understanding of what is possible." full story |
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Gary Midwinter is the latest driver to join the HRCR Classic Stage Rally Challenge, and started by contesting the Robin Hood Historic Forest Stages Rally in the ex-Tony Pond Vauxhall Chevette HSR. full story |
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The excitement is mounting as the 2004 Wales Rally GB takes shape and the announcement of the provisional route includes thrilling changes for competitors, marshals and spectators alike. A new stage has been created in Epynt, Powys and the new date in September means conditions will be very different in 2004, bringing extra challenges for the teams. Covering 18 stages of rugged forest tracks and awe-inspiring Welsh countryside, Wales Rally GB looks set to be one of the most anticipated events on the World Rally Championship. full story |
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Forward, Xsara! After victory in each of the first two rallies of 2004, Citroën heads for Mexico as leader of both the Drivers' and Manufacturers' provisional championship standings. To defend its position, two Xsaras have been entered for the team's usual crews, Sébastien Loeb/Daniel Elena and Carlos Sainz/Marc Marti. full story |
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Richard Williams, championship runner-up and a five-time race winner in Caterham Roadsports last season, is to step up to the Powertrain Caterham R400 Challenge. full story |
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Will Nicholls and Nick Broom made a fine impression on their championship debut by winning the opening round of the HRCR Classic Stage Rally Challenge during the Alternative Sign Centre Robin Hood Historic Forest Stages on 6/7 March. full story |
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Former British GT champion Mike Jordan was left hugely impressed by his rally debut after driving a Mk1 Ford Escort on the opening round of the 2004 Armajaro MSA British Historic Rally Championship. full story |
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Dessie Nutt/Geraldine McBride and Ray Bellm/Marc Jones scored the top honours as the Armajaro MSA British Historic Rally Championship got off to a superb start on the Alternative Sign Centre Robin Hood Historic Forest Stages on 6/7 March. full story |
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In 2003, driving a Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution Group N, Marcos Ligato won the Corona Rally México. This year Mitsubishi drivers aim to build on that success the event joins the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time and counts as the second round of the FIA Production Car World Rally Championship. With a host of highly rated drivers in Lancer Evolutions, Mitsubishi has high hopes of repeating its’ victory on the first round, the Swedish Rally. full story |
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After concluding its debut outing, the Monte Carlo Rally, in 4th place, followed by a 2nd place in snowy Sweden, the next sortie for the Peugeot 307 WRC will be Mexico. full story |
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Welsh rally driving young gun, Gareth Jones will be launching his Pirelli British Rally Championship team at the forthcoming Kwik Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship's BRC Live! (Nr. Nuneaton 21st March). full story |
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After a successful start to the FIA World Rally Championship season on the two most specialised rallies of the year, the Ford BP Rally Sport team faces a massive step into the unknown in Mexico next week for round three of the 16-event series. full story |
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GA Motorsports has today (Thursday 4 March) confirmed its entry in the 2004 BTCC under the banner ‘Team Sureterm’. As expected, the team will field a trio of cars for drivers Paul Wallace, Charlie Butler Henderson and Carl Breeze. full story |
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Having been built by SEAT Sport at its motorsport headquarters in Martorell near Barcelona, the two Seat Toledos that will be driven in the 2004 BTCC by Jason Plato and Robert Huff have arrived at the Ray Mallock Limited workshops in Northamptonshire. full story |
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Julian Burch will debut a Talbot Sunbeam Lotus on the opening round of the HRCR Classic Stage Rally Challenge during this weekend's Robin Hood Historic Forest Stages Rally. full story |
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Rising rally star Chris Davies is embarking on his biggest challenge of his career this year, when the talented 19-year old driver from Abergavenny contests the new and exciting Fiat Stilo Rally Cup. full story |
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Ford TeamRS today unveiled its exciting new Fiesta Junior World Rally Car at the Geneva Show. full story |
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The countdown to the 2004 MSA British Rallycross Championship began with the launch of the new Wildtracks-Newmarket venue. full story |
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Stephen Petch and Co-driver Michael Wilkinson made a good start to their Peugeot 206 Super Cup campaign finishing eighth on only their third outing in the SGP Motorsport prepared 206. full story |
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Team PSP to launch new car and drivers at Donington full story |
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Peugeot TOTAL 206 Super Cup novices Simon Taft and Phil Peak start to the season didn’t quite go to plan. The Worcester based TMG Taftsport.com team made the journey to Bournemouth in high spirits after some pre-event fun on the Silverstone Rally Sprint Circuit. Simon and Phil spent Thursday morning trying to scare BBC Journalists who joined the Team to film a feature for BBC Midlands Today. full story |
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Peugeot TOTAL 206 Super Cup full story |
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Roger Duckworth took victory on the very last stage of the Rallye Sunseeker, as he overturned a twelve second deficit to win the opening round of the 2004 Kumho National Rally Championship by just one second from highly impressive reigning Kumho Junior Champion, Craig Middleton. full story |
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Regulations are now available for the Pirelli International Rally, the opening round of the 2004 Kwik Fit Pirelli British Rally Championship which will see Gateshead's futuristic waterfront once the setting for the start of the UK's major rally series, the event headquarters based in the famous Gateshead International Stadium, while the Start and Finish will be located at the award winning Baltic Square, set against the backdrop of the award winning Gateshead Millennium Bridge. full story |
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