Podcast - Race Prep 101, the New Focus, and Motoring Of The Future

UKMotorTalk's Michael Gates and James Baxter show us their track car, a Fiesta ST that they've acquired for some budget motor sport. They also discuss the brand new Ford Focus, and its competition in the market sector it joins.

UKMotorTalk - Race Prep 101, the New Focus, and Motoring of the Future

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British Drift Championship - Concrete Jungle - Rockingham

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Women in Motor Sport - The Trailblazers

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World Rally Championship 2017

The 2017 WRC campaign kicks off on Thursday on the tarmac, mud, snow and ice of Monaco and the surrounding countryside.

It is all change this year after the departure of the 2016 winning manufacturer, Volkswagen…

After 17 years away, Toyota rejoins the Championship, as does Citroen after just a year away.

M-Sport, Malcolm Wilson’s Ford team, and Hyundai, last year’s runners-up in both Championships, complete the line up with all new, lighter, bigger and more powerful cars.

The manufacturer changes have, naturally, also lead to a game of musical chairs/teams for the drivers too:

M-Sport

• Sébastien Ogier
• Off Tänak
• Elfyn Evans

 

Toyota

• Jari-Matti Latvala
• Juho Hänninen
• Esapekka Lappi

 

Citroën

• Kris Meeke
• Craig Breen
• Stéphane Lefebvre

 

Hyundai

• Thierry Neuville
• Hayden Paddon
• Dani Sordo

Don Garlits - the Big Daddy of Drag Racing.

A lifelong hero of mine is the legendary US drag racer Don Garlits. This year - and for the first time - he came over to the Goodwood Festival of Speed to perform some demo runs in one of his original slingshot dragsters and I spent an enjoyable 1/2 an hour chatting to him in the agreeable surroundings of the Drivers' Garden. 83 years old - he is still doing demo runs but took the decision three years ago to stop competing after his Top Fuel Rail broke the 300mph barrier with a tyre-smoking 303 mph pass over the quarter mile. Hear him tell the story here: 

Graham Benge