9
Dec
ODE TO PICKUP TRUCK RACING Here we are at the end of the 11 season; let’s celebrate whatever the reason At tonight’s awards some might get a cup; because Sonny’s race results show this is where we’re ending up But just a reminder that you’re all winners; let’s take a look back at why we [...]
9
Dec
Provisional Calendar Dates Updates will be posted as we get them: 10 – 11 April Rockingham Motor Speedway 17 – 18 April Brands Hatch 15 – 16 May Knockhill 30 – 31 May Rockingham Motor Speedway 13 June Mallory Park 3 – 4 July Rockingham Motor Speedway 17 – 18 July Mondello Park 7 – [...]
18
Nov
The Pickup Truck Racing 2009 Calendar was unveiled during the 2008 Awards night. These dates are currently provisional and any changes will be amended in due course. Here are the following dates to add into your diary:- Rounds 1&2 – Brands Hatch – March 28th & 29th Rounds 3&4 – Rockingham – April 18th & [...]
4
Nov
The Pickup Truck Racing was at Brands Hatch for the last race meeting of the 2008 season. It was freezing Friday night and thoughts of snow were coming to my mind like the first race of the season back in March. Start the season snowing and end in snow. Saturday morning and the temperature [...]
13
Oct
Pembrey, South Wales is my local track as I live just under 1 hour away. Saturday afternoon on my way to Pembrey, the weather was dry all the way there until I reached the circuit and it started to rain. Pembrey circuit is next to the coast so it is known to be windy and [...]
30
Sep
Pickup Truck racing returned to Rockingham for the last time last weekend and what a round it would be for RMN Motorsport. Having had our engine rebuilt from the DTM round at Brands Hatch it was pretty much all Richard could do to get the car in the transporter for the weekend. Hats off to [...]
30
Sep
Friday night I got there 2 hours later than planned as there were traffic accidents on the M4, M5 and M42. When Richard Novell arrived we begun to start setting up the pickup truck from circuit running to oval running. It took a while but we got there in the end. New driver in the [...]
2
Sep
Brands Hatch and this weekend we were supporting the DTM’s (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) this weekend. As this event is major in the UK, the pickup trucks had to be at the circuit and all ready on Thursday. Chris Millett would arrive at the circuit later on the Friday and Michael Russell will arrive on Saturday morning. [...]
4
Aug
Donington/Thruxton was my first back-to-back race meeting and the weather was so much different between the two. Donington was all sunny and hot. Thruxton was cloudy and windy until Michael Smith’s team arrived and then the heavens opened up. Matt was back for this weekend as well as Phil Harris. That makes it a [...]
28
Jul
A new member of the team for this weekend is Matt as our Technical Advisor. His previous experience includes working with the championship winning team of Nic Grindrod (pickup truck #22). Arrived at the track on Saturday night as all the pickup truck action on track was timetabled for Sunday only. This means practice [...]