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Why Touring Cars beat F1 hands-down

Ben Barry, 02 April 2007 08:56

Forget Formula One. Touring Cars is where the action's at, says Ben Barry Just back from Brands Hatch after watching the British Touring Car Championship. What a day – three races packed with some of the closest tin-top racing I’ve seen since the BTCC glory days of the late '80s to mid '90s. Jason Plato stormed to victory in the ...

Too much electronic nannying in modern cars

Ben Barry, 26 March 2007 11:08

Safety matters, but not if seatbelt beeps drive you up the wall, says Ben Barry I’m all for not flying through the windscreen in the event of an accident, but it seems ‘bleep’ warning systems have gone too far. You can’t even manoeuvre around a multi-storey these days without the no-seatbelt warning bong chiming away (Vauxhall’s Astra VXR being an ...

Wet-weather driving: a Westfield lesson in slipperiness

Ben Barry, 28 February 2007 12:08

Grappling with a Westfield in the wet Recently took a Westfield around Rockingham circuit in the pouring rain and now have a new-found respect for anyone who races anything similar. In the wet it takes laughably little to unstick these machines, and you run out of steering lock so quickly that you really have to act quickly to avoid a ...

BMW's green engine drive

Ben Barry, 03 June 2006 13:55

BMW can do it all: screaming M3 engines to clever, new-tech green advances, says Ben Barry Gas guzzlers. I can’t stomach how the mainstream media are chucking this handy catch-all around at the moment. It’s madness that a hybrid – even a Lexus RX400h for heaven’s sake – is now perceived by the public as some kind of enviro saviour ...

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