Motorsport

Co-driver has never been in rally car

Published 5 September 2008

mg car889 Steven Clark, son of my long-standing rally friend and fellow Avenger driver Ivor Clark, is lying fifth in the Scottish Rally Championship and second in Group N driving rather more modern machinery as his steed is Mitsubishi Lancer Evo 4.

Boyzone star Shayne adds touch of glamour

Published 5 September 2008

THE Stobart Rail Pendragon Stages Rally was again a great success with 115 cars entered which tackled stages in the fast and the furious Warcop and Lowther Park stages.

Incidents costly for Ford in New Zealand rally

Published 1 September 2008

BP Ford Abu Dhabi team drivers Mikko Hirvonen and Jari-Matti Latvala have revealed more details about the incidents which cost them a possible one, two result on Rally New Zealand.

Boyzone star Shayne adds touch of glamour

Published 29 August 2008

THE Stobart Rail Pendragon Stages Rally was again a great success with 115 cars entered which tackled stages in the fast and the furious Warcop and Lowther Park stages.

F3 star Turvey stretches lead to 12 points

Published 29 August 2008

CUMBRIAN racing driver Oliver Turvey tightened his grip at the top of the British Formula 3 Championship despite being forced to settle for two second-place finishes in Romania last weekend.

Wilson hopes Kiwi rally will bear fruit

Published 26 August 2008

MATTHEW WILSON reckons the heat will be on in next week’s Rally New Zealand.

Boyzone Shane‘s a wheely big hit

Published 26 August 2008

Boyzone star Shane Lynch swapped his microphone for pace notes to help Cumbrian rally driver William Stobart win the Pendragon Stages Rally.

Boyzone’s Shane is a wheely big hit

Published 26 August 2008

BOYZONE star Shane Lynch swapped his microphone for pace notes to help Cumbrian rally driver William Stobart win the Pendragon Stages Rally.

MATTHEW’S HOPING KIWI RALLY WILL BEAR FRUIT

Published 26 August 2008

MATTHEW WILSON reckons the heat will be on in next week’s Rally New Zealand.

Turvey dreaming of F1 chance

Published 22 August 2008

CUMBRIAN racing driver Oliver Turvey hopes winning the Formula Three championship a year ahead of schedule could land him a Formula One seat alongside his pal Lewis Hamilton next year.

It’s just Classic and in the sunshine too

Published 22 August 2008

WELL, asking you to pray for sun obviously resulted in you being heard in the heavens as last weekend’s 20th Cumbria Classic Weekend proved to be a huge success as the dreaded rain had a sabbatical for two days.

Deutsch and go for Mikko in title race

Published 19 August 2008

MIKKO HIRVONEN suffered a blow in his battle for the World Rally Championship drivers’ crown when rival Sébastien Loeb won the Rallye Deutschland.

Rock ‘n roll for trials stars

Published 1 August 2008

TRIALS riders turned on the thrills in spectaculr action at Nordvue Farm, Armathwaite.

Motor club’s a star of show

Published 25 July 2008

THE very successful Cumberland Show was a showcase for the countryside and much of what goes on in it – including motorsport which helps boost the Cumbrian economy.

Baptism of fire for club’s first forest rally

Published 18 July 2008

WEST Cumbria Motorsport Club’s new forest rally, the Greystoke Stages, with a entry of 56 cars but only 41 finished in a fraught day for the organisers.

Turvey’s tops at Goodwood Festival

Published 18 July 2008

AS EVER the Goodwood Festival of Speed was a great three days of superb racing and rallying as well as the first glimpse of new cars not seen before including some of the world’s most exotic and expensive machinery.