From Round 4 of the Official Partner Series to the BSB is where riders as young as 6 start their racing career. This clip features the Moto 3 world champion Danny Kent back where he started his racing career, up against some determined 14 year olds trying to tick him off their bucket list!
Every round of the Cool FAB-Racing British Minibikes Championship in 2016 is exclusively live on Downforce Radio.
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Following the widespread worry and turmoil pre season when French owned Motors TV dissapeared from the Sky EPG due to a dispute, there are yet more troubling reports Tonight that the beleaguered broadcaster has once again vanished and gone off air, with social media speculation that this time, it could be for good.
https://twitter.com/f1broadcasting/status/750388576848867330
If true, this will throw countless British championships, teams and drivers plans into disarray having gained vital sponsorship based on the fact they would gain exposure on the all important TV coverage.
Having provided many years of brilliant motorsport TV to France, UK and Europe, if rumours are true it would mark a very sad moment in the motorsport TV landscape and in British motorsport overall.
No comment has been made by the channel Tonight but surely the people who stump up the cash to pay for filming of some club racing championships must be getting fed up and probably thinking about a more stable, HD solution!
Video did not kill the radio star…..
British F3 race winner Thomas Randle got a sensational flying start at Rockingham on the May Bank Holiday weekend.
In a blinding start, The Aussie went from 5th to 1st by the first corner!.
https://www.facebook.com/thomas.randle194/videos/10206604416409265/
Thomas is currently 4th in the championship going into the next race at Oulton Park on May 28th.
The second round of the 2016 maximumgroup.net VAG Trophy thundered into Donington Park at the weekend. With 33 cars all fighting for glory, These driver onboard videos show that the VAG Trophy is just as healthy and as racey as ever before. Just watch some of this action!
Richard O’Dwyer had the slight issue of having no brakes at the chicane which resulted in a dramatic roll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmpHCRO01Ww
Starting from the back of the pack for race 2, Richard certainly had the best view of the mayhem ahead of him!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qGggFgt65w
Richard was also involved in a nice wheel to wheel fight with Rich Marshall #55. You can almost hear Murray Walker screaming about this scrap!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTiRg5tUo2w
This was Darron Lewis’ view from the start of Race 3
And even Darron had a little moment warming his tyres up, he should be in goal for England with saves like that!
https://twitter.com/peteyo10/status/723992788279386113
We just know the Maximumgroup.net VAG Trophy is going from strength to strength and we can’t wait for the next round at Brands Hatch in a few weeks time!
http://www.vagtrophyracing.co.uk/
https://twitter.com/VAGTrophy/
https://www.facebook.com/DunlopVagTrophy/
On Monday’s #DownforceDebrief show, Driver Piers Prior revealed how he will be travelling to Brands Hatch this weekend for the opening round of the 2016 MSA Formula championship and how he hopes to be racing too. 68:19
In an exchange with the host about the first round of the season he said “I’m going, just whether I’m driving or not is not confirmed yet” and Piers confirmed he’ll be taking his helmet, just in case he gets the call. 84:28
If Piers does get nod, it’s widely expected that he will be racing with Falcon Motorsport for whom he recently tested at the media day at Rockingham. He would also be racing in a rich field of talent which includes Sennan Fielding, Jack Butel, Jamie Caroline, Ross Martin, James Pull and the 2014 Downforce Radio Teenage Racer of the Year award winner Alex Quinn.
Here is Piers in an MSA Formula car, testing for Falcon Motorsport recently.
https://www.facebook.com/FordMSAFormula/videos/636999973120556/
https://twitter.com/PiersPrior/status/712774982955302912
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The BRDC British Formula 3 Championship blasted into action at Snetterton at the weekend, #DownforceDebrief and Piers Prior reviewed the action. There was one incident that came to light from race two, where another driver almost ploughed into Australian Thomas Randle.
https://www.facebook.com/thomas.randle194/videos/10206329444295134/
Thomas published the video himself on his facebook profile commenting “This is why you don’t want to start from last…”
The British Formula 3 Championship is next in action on 16/17 April at Brands Hatch.
Sky have announce a new deal that will extend it’s F1 coverage on SkySports until 2024 and giving it exclusive rights.
F1’s commercial rights holder said “I am delighted that we will continue to work together, Sky’s commitment to the sport and standard of coverage is second to none”
Sky have agreed to show highlights of races and qualifying free of charge, The broadcaster has said that The British GP will be broadcasst on a “free-to-air” basis along with two other ‘prime time’ races.
Sky currently share a broadcast deal with Channel 4 which sees the public service channel show 10 live races per season following the BBC’s withdrawal of it’s contract last year.
Martin Brundle, commentator said today “I joined Sky Sports because I wanted to be part of a dedicated F1 channel with a total and long term commitment to the sport. And we have certainly delivered on that. In a fast changing media landscape, our coverage will get even better for F1 fans.”
Share your thoughts on this, and tune into PitBored tomorrow live at 8pm for all the reaction to this epic announcement.
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MSV has announced that it’s BRDC F4 Championship will be renamed as “BRDC British Formula 3 Championship” with immediate effect.
Since launching as an affordable entry level single-seater championship three years ago, BRDC F4 has gone from strength to strength boasting live TV coverage, while crowning Jake Hughes, George Russell and Will Palmer as champions.
For 2016, the championship has attracted many big names making the switch from MSA Formula including champion Lando Norris as well as Ricky Collard and Enaam Ahmed.
The championship in 2016 has a brand new car, the FA-016 Tatuus-Cosworth, which is a lot more powerful than the previous Ralph Firman car and close to the performance of a typical F3 car.
Jonathan Palmer, Chief Executive of BRDC British F3 promoter MSV, said: “I am delighted that we have successfully worked with the FIA and MSA to streamline British single seater motorsport and establish a clear and logical hierarchy for both drivers and teams. Our much advanced 2016 BRDC F4 Tatuus-Cosworth car has proved an outstanding success, being very close to the performance of British F3 in its heyday – but at less than half the budget. Cost effectiveness and value for money is critical to any championship’s health, and having set standards with our BRDC F4 Championship we are now doing the same at F3 level with the BRDC British F3 Championship.”
The winner of this year’s F3 Championship will join a long list of star names to have graced British F3 in the past including, Ayrton Senna, Jim Clark, Mika Hakkinen.
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On this week’s Debrief show during a discussion about how to stop people talking F1 down and boring us to death by critisizing it all the time, I proposed that most of the damage to
I suggested that in order to stop the commercial rights holder of Formula 1 from damaging the brand even more we and other media should stop paying attention to his always well timed outrageous and controversial statements. It was during this discussion when pannelist Vicky Selwyn
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BikeLive presenter Louis Suddaby said “I think we’ve just got to shut the man up, just stop putting a microphone infront of his face, he’s second to Lewis Hamilton in terms of when you put a microphone infront of his face, he’s bound to talk some sort of cobblers on the way so just stop interviewing the guy, the problem is that he’s a magnet for interviewers, they will always try and ask him questions because they know he’s going to come out with some sort of nonsense when they do”
“My aim is to get into IndyCar, that would be the dream”
“There was options but I’ve got to take the best option which is the best one for my career, I could have done GP2 this year, but to try and get into Formula 1, its so limited now, the doors are closing, even someone like Stoffell Vandoorne who’s won GP2 still couldn’t get into Formula 1.