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Motorsport News

01/05/19

MGCC Brands Hatch Spring Race Meeting

The MGCC Spring Race Meeting made it’s annual visit to Brands Hatch last weekend (27-28/04/2019) bringing along with it huge grids and cars covering every decade from the 1930’s onwards but no sign of the spring like weather that bathed Brands Hatch only a week earlier. The Maidstone MG Trophy kicked of the weekends proceedings […]

29/04/19

BRSCC entertains – Easter at Snetterton

The BRSCC headed to Norfolk with 5 formulae taking part.. The meeting featured five formulae across the two days with the removal of the TCR championship due to it joining forces with the new TCT series. The Formula Fords boasted a good grid size with 19 cars taking part from both the nationals and clubmans. […]

27/04/19

Britcar round 2 – Praga and Ferrari victories

Round 2 of the Britcar Championship took place on the full Silverstone Grand Prix circuit… There was a field of 29 cars for these races in the damp and very windy Northamptonshire countryside. The opening pace was set by the VR Motorsport Praga R1T but a spin on the pace lap sent it to the […]

25/04/19

2CV’s, Mini’s & CNC Saloons at Cadwell…

Three races from the Classic 2CV Racing Club proved to be one of the highlights of the day at Cadwell Park as reigning champion Pete Sparrow and Lien Davies shared the spoils. With a bumper entry list for their second event of the year, the 2cv’s went wheel-to-wheel around the challenging twists and turns that […]

24/04/19

Easter Weekend – Trucks and Legends At Brands

The Trucks and Legends wowed the crowds over the Easter Bank Holiday weekend with some fantastic close action racing, large grids and with the added bonus of the glorious Easter holiday weather with temperatures up into the mid twenty degrees C. The newly sponsored MV Commercial BTRA Championship got underway with a four race weekend […]

24/04/19

British GT Championship Oulton Park

The JRM Racing Bentley of Rick Parfitt Jnr and Seb Morris and the Barwell Motorsport Lamborghini of Sam De Haan and Jonny Cocker shared the spoils as the 2019 British GT Championship season kicked off at Oulton Park. A huge crowd packed into the Cheshire circuit bathed in warm spring sunshine, and they were treated […]

19/04/19

750 Motor Club roars into action at Brands Hatch

With all weather experienced on the Saturday it set the weekend up for an action packed couple of days.. The weekend kicked off with rain, sleet and hail which affected a number of qualifying sessions. Drivers found it slippery and greasy for their first track action causing some red flags along the way. The Armed […]

17/04/19

Spring National Meeting Harewood

The British Automobile Racing Club (BARC), Yorkshire Centre held its first competitive event of the 2019 season with the Spring National Hillclimb meeting on Sunday 14th April 2019… The event had a number of competitors from the MG Car Club, HSA SBD Speed Championship and Nottingham Sports Car Club Speed Championship joining the regular Harewood […]

17/04/19

Fun Cup UK Round 2 Oulton Park

DespatchBay.com emerged victorious from a thrilling four hour Fun Cup race at Oulton Park last Saturday (13th April), heading a six car battle for the lead in the closing stages. The beautiful Cheshire circuit was bathed in some early spring sunshine, but the air temperature was cold as the cars set off for Old Hall […]

13/04/19

Silverstone Classic 2019 Preview

Numerous marques celebrated milestone anniveraries ahead the summer festival’s warm-up. The world’s largest classic motor racing festival welcomed more than 150 cars on 10th April, many of which were shakedown tested as a teaser to media and fans alike ahead of the main summer event in July 2019. A key name among these racing cars […]

07/04/19

TVR Car Club – Burghley Park Gathering…

Once again the TVR Car Clubs opening meting took place at Burghley Park near Stamford. It is a very special meeting as the cars are allowed around the front entrance usually closed off to the public. As with last year the weather was grey and cool but the rain kept away. There was at a […]

05/04/19

Sparrow flies to double – 2CV’s at Silverstone

The first race meeting usually has some stunning cars that have been worked on all winter out for their first public display and the 2CV paddock didn’t disappoint spectators at all with their hard work. Personally my favourite was the new GS Racing car in it’s timber garden shed vinyl wrap livery… Race 1 saw […]

02/04/19

Pryce Triumphant on Home Stages

Blue skies and dusty tracks greeted the crews of Rally North Wales. Held in the forests around Dolgellau, the Rally is a qualifying round for the British Historic Rally Championship as well as others. Organised by Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Car Club the event attracted a full entry list. The route consisted of a repeated […]

01/04/19

Britcar Season Launches At Silverstone

The opening round of the Britcar Championships took place on Saturday 30th March at Silverstone. The format has changed for this season with there being only one championship that everyone is competing for in 2x1hr races. There was a bumper grid of 35 cars with the Praga R1T of VR Motorsport making it’s British racing […]

27/03/19

Practice Day Harewood Speed Hillclimb 2019

The British Automobile Racing Club (BARC), Yorkshire Centre held its first event of the 2019 season with Practice Day meeting on Sunday 24th March 2019… The Harewood Speed Hillclimb Championship and the Fast Time of the Day Championship (FTD) kicks off on Sunday 14th April with the Spring National meeting. A full list of all […]

13/03/19

BEMSEE 2019 Season Underway…

Bemsee started its season last weekend at Brands… Images by Gary Hand – Words by James Sharpe. Bemsee back at Brands as racing returns It finally feels like winter is behind us, and while MotoGP was getting underway in the desert of Qatar, the British Motorcycle Racing Club was also kicking off its season of […]

09/03/19

British GT 2019 – GT4

Something old, something blue….lots of things nice and new GT racing in the last 3 to 4 seasons has seen a boom in GT4 action, but even with the European series British GT is leading the way with GT4 competition. On the 5th of march the 2019 full season entry list was revealed, and […]

07/03/19

British GT Championship Media Day Gallery

The British GT Championship held their annual Media Day at Donington Park on Tuesday 5th March. Series organisers announced a record 38-car entry list for the 2019 season, including 14 cars in the headline GT3 class. You can read Mike Widdowson’s GT3 preview here, with a GT4 preview to follow later in the week. Here […]

06/03/19

British GT 2019 – GT3

2019 British GT season has begun, a record breaking 38 car field in the 27 year history of the championship. British GT welcomes a huge grid featuring 14 GT3 machines with 5 of the new generation cars entered straight off the bat. Balfe motorsport have ran the old 650s with great success and is one […]

23/02/19

Oulton Park Winter Testing

The build up to the 2019 season continued at Oulton Park this week, with teams from a wide variety of championships taking advantage of some early spring sunshine to gain some experience at the Cheshire circuit. A host of single seater and GT cars were out testing, with the opening races of the season just […]

19/02/19

Jack Frost Stage Rally At Croft

Fast & Furious – The Jack Frost Rally – special stages at Croft… It was a single venue, multi use stage rally featuring approximately forty stage miles, over eight special stages, all within the confines of the Circuit’s tarmac and also using some of the service roads and paddock areas. Competitors started at 30 second […]

11/02/19

Oulton Park Testing Roundup

The 2019 season burst into life at Oulton Park last week, with the first test days of the year at the Cheshire circuit. Teams from a variety of championships wasted no time in getting on track, with cars out testing from the British GT Championship, Britcar, the British F3 Championship and more. Paddock 42 photographer […]

05/02/19

Hankook Dubai 24 hours 2019 -Gallery

The Hankook 24 hours of Dubai Gallery as seen through the lens of Mike Widdowson. The 14th edition of the twice around the clock desert classic, was literally a classic. Audi Dominated the race with Car collection Motorsport but Mercedes, Lamborghini and Ferrari still put up a big fight. Enjoy the gallery of the race. […]

23/01/19

WRC 2019 Launched at Autosport Show

Autosport International (10-13th January) hosted the launch of the 2019 World Rally Championship during which drivers and teams unveiled their 2019 cars to fans and the worlds media. Tens of thousands of fans descended on Birmingham’s NEC on Saturday 12th January to see the worlds best rally drivers take the covers off their 2019 challengers […]

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Classifieds Archive

Historic Race Car, 1963 Turner Sports Mk2, VUD 701, Ex John E Miles Autosport Championship Winner.

£410000
Signature Series Racetruck – Ex-Demo Vehicle for Sale

£54000
Racetruck – Enclosed Race Car Transporter

POA
1967 FORD CORTINA MK 11 RALLY CAR Registration number: RLX 624E

SOLD
2014/64 Volkswagen Transporter T30S Kombi Highline 180 BITDI DSG (SWB)

SOLD
Alan Mann Open Sports Ford Can-Am package

$1000000
871 SUPERCHARGER .THE BLOWER SHOP 2222 HIGH-HELIX, FULL BILLET

$3000
1928 Indian Scout

POA
March F1 761/08 Exceptional!

$399500
1959 Restored Stanguellini #Cs00159

$115000
1965 Dodge Coronet 440 hardtop

$25000
Ducati 1974 750 Sports

$17000