Scot Robin Liddell grabbed his third Grand-Am GT Championship win of the season in dramatic style in Canada. The 34-year-old from Edinburgh started the final lap third but powered home to win in stunning fashion at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal. Having taken over at the wheel of the Pontiac GXP.R…
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Sharp pipped for pole position in Spa
Aberdeen’s Ryan Sharp, driving his JetAlliance Aston Martin DBR9, was denied pole position for tomorrow’s fifth round of the FIA GT World Championship, the Spa 24-Hours in Belgium, in the final five minutes of the third qualifying session. The 29-year-old Scot grabbed provisional pole by setting the fastest time in the first…
Sharp grabs provisional pole at Spa 24-Hours
Aberdeen’s Ryan Sharp, driving his JetAlliance Aston Martin DBR9, grabbed provisional pole position for the fifth round of the FIA GT World Championship, the Spa 24-Hours in Belgium. The 29-year-old from Aberdeen, partnered by Austrian Karl Wendlinger, lapped the Belgian Grand Prix circuit at Spa-Francorchamps in his JetAlliance Aston Martin DB9 in…
Spa Q&A with Gordon Shedden
Knockhill’s own Gordon Shedden is making his debut in the Spa 24-Hours race on the famous Belgium Grand Prix circuit at Spa-Francorchamps this weekend. We caught up with the BTCC racer in between qualifying in his CR Scuderia Ferrari F430GT. Q. How are you getting along with the track, the team…
BTCC ace Shedden tackles Spa 24-Hours
Less than a week after he bagged his second win of the season in the British Touring Car Championship, Dalgety Bay’s Gordon Shedden bids for further glory in the Spa 24-Hours race behind the wheel of a Ferrari. And the 29-year-old, who won Sunday’s BTCC race at Oulton Park, will team up…
Adam bags Seat double as Shedden wins again
Fifer Jonathan Adam stepped up his bid to retain the Seat Cupra Championship when he dominated the latest rounds at Oulton Park in Cheshire by claiming his second successive double victory. The talented youngster from Kirkcaldy, who won the championship last season, dominated the weekend starting both races from pole position and…
Di Resta shines in the Nurburgring rain
Bathgate’s Paul Di Resta delivered a masterful display of driving in atrocious conditions to power from 12th on the grid to finish second in the latest round of the German Touring Car Championship at the Nurburgring. In pouring rain, the 22-year-old Scot — now only seven points behind the Audi of Timo…
McNish reflects on Le Mans 24-Hour victory
TWENTY-FOUR HOURS AFTER WINNING HIS SECOND LE MANS 24-HOURS RACE, SCOTS RACER ALLAN McNISH TALKED EXCLUSIVELY TO JIM McGILL Twenty-four hours after winning the world’s greatest race, the Le Mans 24-Hours, Scots racing ace Allan McNish was back behind the wheel of a car. This time though, rather than hurtling round the…
McNish conquers Le Mans again
It may have been 10 years in the waiting, but after what he described as the “most stressful and hardest” Le Mans 24-Hours race of his career, Dumfries racer Allan McNish finally clinched his second victory in what is accepted as the world’s toughest race. After 381 laps of the 8.47-mile La…
Barry bags top 10 finish in Turkey
Aberdeenshire’s Barry Clark clinched a stunning top 10 finish in only his second outing in the World Rally Championship. And the 25-year-old from Ellon, driving his Ford Focus RS WRC 07, was delighted with his performance in the Rally of Turkey. “My main target was to stay out of trouble, not damage…