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Weekend round up – 10th June 2012 #Indycar #NASCAR #F1

Posted on June 12, 2012 by truckertoggle

Plenty of top action this weekend with #IndyCar from Texas, #NASCAR out in the wilds of Pocono and #F1 on the river in Canada. Plenty of pit road speeding penalties too.

In the UK, the #BTCC saw a good weekend for Honda with Matt Neal taking two wins and Gordon Sheddon the other at the wonderful Oulton Park. We try to keep folks up to date with our Tweets on most major motor sports, so please feel free to follow @TheDriverJohn on Twitter. Continue reading →

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#F1 Could Canada learn from Bahrain?

Posted on June 4, 2012 by driverjohn

Just reading this quote from the Canadian GP organisers: Continue reading →

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Weekend round up – 4th June 2012 #NASCAR #IndyCar #DTM #F1

Posted on June 4, 2012 by driverjohn

This weekend saw #NASCAR in action on the Monster Mile and the #Indycar boys and girls on the streets of Detroit. The #DTM were on another away race, this time in Austria at Spielberg and #F1 had a weekend off before their Canadian outing next weekend. They also lost another of their elder statesmen with the death of Roy Salvadori at 90. Continue reading →

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Roy Salvadori RIP

Posted on June 4, 2012 by driverjohn

With a name like that he could only have been a racing driver really, but he was also a successful businessman and, most of all, a gentleman.

As a man of his word he stuck with Aston Martin’s dreadful F1 project instead of staying on with Cooper where he might have won a world championship; certainly he would have won a Grand Prix or two. Instead of rear engined results he followed the handshake agreement into wasted time and races with one of the last front engined F1 cars. Continue reading →

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Weekend round up – 27th May 2012 #F1 #Indycar #NASCAR

Posted on May 28, 2012 by truckertoggle

We had three great races, races really deserving of the term “Classics”, this weekend with the Monaco Grand Prix, the Indy 500 and the 600 at Charlotte, all of which have been on the racing calendar for some years. Continue reading →

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