Allard classic car
Telegraph.co.uk
During the Fifties Allard prospered, especially in America, where the cars were a key part of the revival of sports car racing. Yet by the end of the decade, with the ascendancy of Jaguar, Triumph and MG, Allard and his cars were bypassed. …

MG could return to British Touring Cars with NGTC machine
autosport.com
The launch of the MG6 Magnette saloon and the fast-back GT in the UK has resulted in a number of outfits contacting MG Motor UK about touring car racing, according to its sales and marketing director Guy Jones. AUTOSPORT understands that these include …

VIDEO: Does anyone else have fond memories of stock car racing at Newton Abbot …
Newtonabbot People
I especially recall the banger car racing being crazy. The venue also used to host a great night of entertainment on Bon Fire night. Does anyone have any information about why it stopped? Or does anyone have any particular memories to share…

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Hornby says year started well, eyes Xmas
Reuters UK
The maker of model railways, Scalextric car racing kits and Airfix models said all its brands were performing well in Britain and that it expected demand for its Olympics-branded merchandise to build ahead of the London 2012 games. …

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HEMET: Patience, hard work pay off in Pinewood Derby
Press-Enterprise
Dylan Depew, left, Delaney Doyle, Marcus Price and Peyton Galloway feel the tension of pinewood car racing. Boys and girls from the area constructed pinewood race cars for this competition. Hemet resident Dimitri Megile, 11, has been attending the …

Gordon McDougall
When Saturday Comes
Seemed to have saved the club when he bought in the early Nineties and re-established stock car racing on the oval track surrounding the pitch. Proclaiming himself to be a Hibs fan seemed a bizarre move, but not as bizarre as sacking ex-Hibs star John …

Krider a soap box superstar
Napa Valley Register
His dad, Rob Krider, no stranger to car racing — the elder Krider is the 2010 National Auto Sport Association Western Endurance Racing Championship E3 Class Champion — tuned Gus's car to run smooth and straight. Gus won both practice runs down the …

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Racing circuit plans 'will blight our lives'
Teesdale Mercury
CHANGES to the running of a stock car racing circuit in Teesdale would blight people's lives, a county councillor says. Barford Raceway, near Barnard Castle, was established in 1990 as a banger racing circuit but has since progressed to stockcars. …

Pictured doing a mid-air stunt: The extreme kite-flyer who died after being …
Daily Mail
Tributes posted on Kite Crowd web forum told how Mr Garwood 'loved what he did so very much' and revealed his passion for power kiting, snowboarding and car racing. Mr Garwood, from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, who attended Northfields Upper School and …

Extreme kite-flyer Marcus Garwood killed by freak gust of wind
Daily Mail
Tributes posted on Kite Crowd web forum told how Mr Garwood 'loved what he did so very much' and revealed his passion for power kiting, snowboarding and car racing. Mr Garwood, from Dunstable, Bedfordshire, who attended Northfields Upper School and …

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