Category Archives: Motor Sport

Scalextric – Le Mans 1966 Ford GT40 (C2529A)

Scalextric Le Mans 1966 Ford GT40 3 Car Set created for the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2003. Manufactured approx. 2003. The cars are weathered to their race finish appearance. First: Ford GT40 Mk.II No.1 – Bruce McLaren and Chris Amon … Continue reading

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Scalextric – Batmobile (C4175)

Having bought the Scalextric Legends – Jim Clark Triple Set, I could not resist getting the detailed 1960s style Batmobile model too. The Batmobile was created by George Barris and based on the 1955 Lincoln Futura concept car (see this … Continue reading

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Scalextric Legends – Jim Clark (C4395A)

Having seen some of Jim Clark’s Formula 1 and road cars in the flesh a few times and remembering that I used Jim Clark’s Lotus 49 F1 race car as my slot racing car in competitions and at the Scalextric … Continue reading

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Gumball 3000 Rally 2023 in Edinburgh

The Gumball 3000 Rally in 2023 had a route from Edinburgh, through Europe to the final destination, Porto Montenegro. The last time the Gumball Rally was through Edinburgh was in 2014 (see this blog post). The cars gathered on Saturday … Continue reading

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Seven Dales Heritage Run 2023

The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire has been running rallies, car trials and driving tests for over 50 years as noted in my previous blog post. The Seven Dales Heritage Run was run again in 2023 on a … Continue reading

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Seven Dales Heritage Run 2022

The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire has been running rallies, car trials and driving tests for over 50 years as noted in my previous blog post. The Seven Dales Heritage Run was run again in 2022 on a … Continue reading

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Seven Dales Heritage Run 2021

The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire has been running rallies, car trials and driving tests for over 50 years as noted in my previous blog post. After a year out in 2020 due to COVID-19 the Seven Dales … Continue reading

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Seven Dales Heritage Run 2019

The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire has been running rallies, car trials and driving tests for over 50 years as noted in my previous blog post. My wife Margaret and myself joined some other family members and entered … Continue reading

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Seven Dales Heritage Run 2018

The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire has been running rallies, car trials and driving tests for over 50 years as noted in my previous blog post. My wife Margaret and myself joined some other family members and entered … Continue reading

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Early Drag Racing in UK

This post brings together some early scrapbook material about my involvement and that of my brother Jon with the early development of drag racing in the UK. I was prompted to bring this material together and scan some early press … Continue reading

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Seven Dales Heritage Run 2017

The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire has been running rallies, car trials and driving tests for over 50 years as noted in my previous blog post. My wife Margaret and myself joined some other family members and entered … Continue reading

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Seven Dales Heritage Run 2016

The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire has been running rallies, car trials and driving tests for over 50 years as noted in my previous blog post. I was a frequent competitor in the 1960s and linked back up … Continue reading

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Project Cars in VR

Project Cars (http://www.projectcarsgame.com/) has been available since May 2015 [Wikipedia] along with regular add-ons and downloadable content. Support for VR headsets has been included for a while. Project Cars “Game of the Year” edition was released on 6th May 2016 … Continue reading

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Chaparral 2X Vision Gran Turismo

From Gran Turismo Web Site: Vision Gran Turismo is a project in which the world’s leading automotive brands develop concept cars for Gran Turismo (GT6) on the PlayStation PS3. Conceived as a “Garage 56” Le Mans Experimental Prototype, the Chevrolet … Continue reading

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OpenSim – Visit to Ingen Labs – Vehicles, Physics and Varregions

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Jim Clark Cars on Forth Bridge

On Thursday 21st August 2014, a number of Jim Clark cars were on show at the Forth Road Bridge HQ in South Queensferry and then were driven over the Forth Road Bridge, from South to North. http://www.forthbridgesfestival.com/events/jim-clark-50th-anniversary-british-touring-cars-forth-road-bridge-parade/ Jim Clark’s own … Continue reading

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De Lacy Motor Club Clubhouse 50th Anniversary Events

The De Lacy Motor Club (D.L.M.C) in Yorkshire was where I was a member in the late 1960s when I was first interested in motor sport, rallying, car trials, driving tests and drag racing. I had a Mini at the … Continue reading

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Gumball 3000 Rally 2014 in Edinburgh

The Gumball 3000 Rally in 2014 had a route from Miami, through Atlanta to New York and then over by air to the UK to drive though Edinburgh, Manchester and London… then onto Paris, Barcelona and then by ferry to … Continue reading

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Gran Turismo 6 – Ayron Senna Tribute

A tribute to the racing career of Ayrton Senna has been included in Gran Turismo 6 for the Sony PlayStation PS3. Ayrton Senna’s DAP Racing Kart, West Surrey Racing British F3 car and Lotus 97T Formula 1 car are available … Continue reading

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BMW Vision Gran Turismo

BMW have released their “Vision Gran Turismo” concept race car in Grant Turismo (GT6) for the Sony PlayStation PS3 with all the usual BMW visual features like kidney grill, short front overhand and the rear side window feature called the … Continue reading

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Gran Turismo 6

The Gran Turismo series of car simulation and racing games on the Sony PlayStation reaches its 15th anniversary with the release of GT6. I have had each iteration of this game through PS1, PS2 and PS3. My usual approach is … Continue reading

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Other Worlds in Serious Games

Simulations of real or imagined worlds have been used for many years to assist in training. One of my favourite simulated games is the PlayStation Gran Turismo series… our long loved Toyota MR2 Mk.I, now no longer with us, is still … Continue reading

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