Motorsport News

Comedy crash of the week

While every crash in a race is potentially dangerous, few are as comically funny as this one from the final race of the Australian Formula Ford championship in Sydney. Surprising air and wildly flailing suspension are always amusing. Of course, the driver – Simon Hodge – was unhurt. Otherwise it wouldn’t be funny now, would […]

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Allan Moffat, Ford Mustang leading Pete Geoghegan, Ford Falcon. BayPark 1972. IMAGE/terry marshall Classic Motorsport

Blast from the Past: Baypark

It’s Blast from the Past time of week again! This week’s Terry Marshall shot comes from the legendary Baypark raceway in 1972. It shows a pair of equally legendary driver battling it out; Allan Moffat in the Ford Mustang and Pete Geohegan in the Ford Falcon.

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Classic Motorsport

The Racers

This is brilliant. The wonderfully talented and passionate Antti Kalhola has just done another video that perfectly explains WHY F1 drivers race using just archival footage and perfectly judged quotes. It is compulsory viewing if you have forgotten why you love Formula One. Six minutes of pure awesome.

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Paul Fahey. Ford Cologne Capri. Ruapuna 1974. image/terry marshall Classic Motorsport

BLAST FROM THE PAST: The Cologne Capri

Welcome a resurrected “Blast from the Past” section. Previously we ran tests of classic cars under this banner (and would love to start doing so again – so if anyone is keen to rattle off a few words about their own, or a mate’s classic then drop us a line!) but now we have re-jigged […]

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Motorsport

Highlands 101 in pictures

Here is some of the wonderful photography of Terry Marshall from the recent Highlands 101 event. We REALLY wish we had managed to get there now… There are no captions, ‘cos we weren’t there and Terry is far too grumpy for us to bother for some (just kidding, he’s really lovely. If a bit worrying…) […]

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Motorsport News

Bamber lands Porsche factory Supercup scholarship

23-year old Kiwi Earl Bamber looks set to rocket back onto the international scene  following the announcement that he is the winner of the Porsche Motorsport International Cup Scholarship challenge. Bamber was nominated for the scholarship shootout by the Porsche Carrera Cup Asia championship after he dominated the series in his first year competing in […]

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