Motorsports Blog

It’s 27 years since Nicky Grist co-drove for Armin Schwarz in the FIA World Rally Championship – and if that wasn’t enough to make the boss of Nicky Grist Motorsports feel old, news that Armin’s son is now making waves in international rallying certainly will! Having already shown his enormous potential by winning the junior category on a Read more...

Tom Oliphant can’t believe that he’s a British Touring Car Championship race winner, after scoring his maiden victory at Brands Hatch yesterday. The 29-year old Leamington Spa-based driver withstood tremendous pressure from Ash Sutton in the third race of the day to clinch victory around the 2.43-mile Grand Prix circuit in his West Surrey Read more...

Ashley Sutton – who wears a Stilo ST5 GT Zero helmet supplied by Nicky Grist Motorsports – took centre stage as the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship blasted back into life at Donington Park last weekend, taking a historic first win for the Infiniti Q50. Despite taking place behind closed doors at the Leicestershire venue, Britain’s Read more...

The Nicky Grist Stages is set to return to the classic mid-Wales forestry stages on Saturday 10 July 2021, following the cancellation of this year’s event. Quinton Motor Club had originally planned to run the event – which is a five time winner of the BTRDA ‘Rally of the Year’ award – on Saturday 11 July, but owing to Covid-19 lockdown Read more...

Rallies, such as the Nicky Grist Stages rescheduled for Saturday 28 November, have been given the green light to return, following updated guidelines issued today by Motorsport UK. Motorsport resumed across the British Isles on Saturday (4 July) with 12 events taking place following an enforced 110-day sabbatical, owing to the coronavirus outbreak Read more...

Two-time FIA World Rallycross champion Johan Kristoffersson won the ‘All-Star’ Magic Weekend at Höljes in Sweden, while double FIA World Rally champion Marcus Grönholm (pictured wearing a Stilo WRC DES Zero 8860 helmet) scored victory in the Legends’ invitational class – beating Henning Solberg, Stig-Olov Walfridson, Andreas Eriksson and Read more...

Motorsport events are up and running again in the UK this weekend – 110 days after the suspension of all event permits on 17 March, owing to the Covid-19 pandemic. Twelve events are taking place across the UK on this, the re-start of the 2020 motorsports calendar, including kart meetings at Forest Edge near Winchester and Sorel Point in Jersey Read more...

After months of uncertainty, it has been announced that Estonia will host the FIA World Rally Championship for the first time in September when the 2020 series restarts following an enforced break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Rally Estonia (4 - 6 September) joins the fixture list after running as a WRC promotional event in 2019. The country will Read more...

Defending FIA World Rallycross Champion Timmy Hansen (pictured wearing a Stilo WRC DES 8860 helmet) and FIA World Rally Championship superstar Thierry Neuville are the latest big-name additions to the stellar driver line-up for next month’s blockbuster ‘All-Star’ Magic Weekend at Höljes in Sweden (2-5 July), as the high-profile pair join Read more...

Former RallyX Nordic champion Oliver Solberg will return to the series for next month’s ‘All-Star’ Magic Weekend at Höljes in Sweden (2-5 July), fresh off the back of his victory in Rally Sweden Lockdown a fortnight ago. After clinching three consecutive crowns in RallyX Nordic’s Crosskart class Solberg – son of two-time FIA World Read more...