The Motor Racing Spectator

Super Karts at the Melbourne Hairpin Donington Park BARC Sunday 3rd June 2018 The 40th anniversary of the British Superkart Grand Prix was the headline act at Donington Park on Sunday 3rd June. The BARC organised meeting saw a mixture of Superkart and car action with the various kart races supported by Mazda Max5, Mighty Mini, MG Owners Club, Clubmans, Kumho BMW & Classic FF1600 championship races to form a 17 race schedule on the Sunday of the 2-day meeting. The CIK-FIA European Superkart Championship made a rare appearance on British soil and German driver Peter Elkmann not only dominated the pair of European races, he also went on to win the Division 1 British GP plate race in his Anderson kart. F250 National karts competed for overall British Superkart Championship points along with a handful of F450 karts. Australian Jordie Forde taking the GP victory. Not to be out done by their larger engined counterparts, the F125 Open karts always provide spectacular racing and L...

Donington Park Saturday 5th May 2018 Time for another monthly update dear readers...Following on from a decidedly chilly Touring Car meeting at Donington on April 29th, it was back to Donington just 6 days later for the first raceday of the annual Donington Historic Festival. Organised this year by MSVR and not the HSCC, Saturday morning saw bright blue sky and a +20 degree change in temperature from the weekend before!  Qualifying for the weekend's activities had taken place on the Friday so it was wall to wall racing on Saturday with 10 races on the programme. The Donington Historic Festival (DHF) has always sat somewhat uneasily in the over-crowded Historic racing season since it's inception in 2011 in my opinion. Various FIA Historic series have visited in the past but as for this year there was nothing particularly headline grabbing.  Racing is racing though and there were 2 separate races for Formula Junior, front-engined and (you've guessed it!) rear engin...