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Tales from a Spa Virgin
Paul Ugo, of Dell’Ugo pasta fame and a sometime Daytona Racer recently had a midlife crisis and went out and bought a Ferrari 360 Challenge Race car. Here is his experience of racing at SPA with no practice: Eau Rouge, Rivage, Pouhon, Blanchimont . . . Legendary, exciting, challenging, dangerous. These renowned corners consumed…
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Hungary for Racing?
After a three week gap, F1 is back this weekend with the Hungarian Grand Prix. Since the last race, the teams have run their “young” drivers tests and Pirelli have changed the tyres again and it looks like it might help Ferrari and Lotus more than it will help Mercedes and Red Bull. If that…
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Home Run for Vettel – and Murray!
Finally Sebastian Vettel wins the German Grand Prix. Considering his dominance in recent years and the stack of youngest driver records he holds, it is somewhat surprising that, before yesterday, he had never won his home Grand Prix. On the same day that Vettel was winning at home for the first time, Andy Murray won…
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If it’s Tuesday, it must be Mercedes-Benz World…
Every Summer British F1 fans get very excited about our home Grand Prix. Despite the criticisms of Silverstone and traffic in the past, we have always been patriotically keen on the race and the fans always make it look amazing, regardless of weather! At Daytona, we looking forward to British Grand Prix week and not…
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From Monaco to Montreal…
After the excitement of Monaco, the F1 circus crosses the pond again to Canada this week for the Grand Prix Du Canada. The tyre testing debate rages on with the FIA investigating Mercedes and Ferrari for their in-season tests, but the next race is more likely to be affected by weather than anything else. F1…
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Karting, Go Karting or Kart Racing?
We constantly have a debate within the team about the best way to refer to the activities that we offer. Whilst the majority of our business involves drivers racing karts around our tracks and other circuits, we cannot agree on what it should be called. The majority of our customers phone us and ask for…
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Monaco… The Ultimate Street Race!
And so F1 heads back to Monte Carlo for its unique event. The racing isn’t usually much cop, although the crashes and incidents are pretty much guaranteed to be dramatic, but the glitz and glamour usually make up for the processional racing. Maybe this year, things will be different… This year, even more than ever,…
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F1 reaches Europe
After what seems like a really long gap, the F1 season continues this weekend, in Spain. The fact that it feels like months since the last race is probably testimony to how exciting the season has been so far. We have only had four races so far, out of 19, but we have seen a lot of…
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Webber’s Woes
Three weeks ago, Mark Webber had a pretty rubbish race weekend after his team-mate ignored team orders and overtook him to “steal” his win. At the time, Webber probably thought that things could only get better, but if you watched the Chinese Grand Prix, then you know that his Annus Horribilis continued in a similar…
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Team Orders
So the 2013 F1 season looks like being a belter already. If the team-mates infighting controversy is anything to go by, the F1 Show is going to entertain us again this year. In 2012 we had seven different winners in the first seven races, which made a very welcome change to the one team dominance that had…