Motorsports Blog

Do you want to stand out on the grid in 2022? Well, this might be for you! If you purchase any one of the Stilo ST5 range of helmets from Nicky Grist Motorsports in January and February 2022 – from a Stilo ST5 CMR kart racing helmet right up to a Stilo ST5 FN Zero 8860 ABP Carbon helmet (and everything in between) – you will go into a prize Read more...

Calling all rally drivers – this is a FANTASTIC one-off promotion you won’t want to miss! If you purchase any one of the Stilo WRC Venti range of helmets from Nicky Grist Motorsports in January and February 2022, you will go into a draw to become part of the Stilo Rally Scholarship 2022 – and receive a day’s rally driving tuition from Read more...

Sébastien Loeb will join the Banbury-based Prodrive team for the forthcoming Dakar Rally, after leaving Hyundai Motorsport. The nine-time FIA World Rally Champion will drive a Bahrain Raid Xtreme Dakar T1 car in January’s event, which will be held in Saudi Arabia. Loeb and co-driver Daniel Elena have contested a selected number of WRC events Read more...

What an incredible final day on Rally Turkey it was! The longest, roughest and most gruelling stage of the event, the 23.7 mile (38.15km) Çetibeli test, was always going to be the deciding factor – but nobody could have predicted how it would dramatically shuffle the pack, nor what an impact it would have on the race for the FIA World Rally Read more...

Craig Breen put in a star performance on last weekend’s Rally Estonia, finishing second behind team-mate, defending world champion and local hero Ott Tänak. It was the Irishman’s first podium finish for the Hyundai Motorsport team and it equals his best ever World Rally Championship result, having previously finished runner-up on the 2018 Read more...

After he launched his car, Dukes of Hazzard style, off a mountain in Monte Carlo, Ott Tänak has since established himself as a serious FIA World Rally Championship title contender – with second place finishes in Sweden and Mexico followed by his first victory for the Hyundai Motorsport team in Estonia. Maybe it was a little bit of inside local Read more...

Ashley Sutton says that he’ll ‘come out swinging at Thruxton’ – after scoring two Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship race wins at Knockhill and closing to within 10 points of the lead of the drivers’ title. The 2017 champion – who wears a Stilo ST5 GT Zero helmet supplied by Nicky Grist Motorsports – took his Laser Tools Read more...

Exactly 13 years and two months after her last motorsport outing, former FIA World Rally Championship star Natalie Barratt is making a dramatic return to competition this weekend – driving in the new all-electric Projekt E Rallycross series at Höljes in Sweden. Natalie, who wears a Stilo ST5 FN 8860 helmet, has always been a self-confessed Read more...

The famous Ypres Rally (19-22 November) in Belgium will host the eighth and final round of the heavily revised 2020 FIA World Rally Championship, following the cancellation of Rally Japan. While Japan’s return to the WRC after a 10-year hiatus has been regrettably called off due to border entry restriction policies imposed by the government due Read more...

Matthew Wilson heads a magnificent entry list for this Saturday’s M-Sport Return to Rally Stages, which takes place in the team’s privately-owned test venue, Greystoke forest (22 August). M-Sport’s chief test driver and race team manager will drive a top-specification EcoBoost-powered Ford Fiesta WRC, while his father and M-Sport boss Read more...