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Auto Mundial 35-10

We've a brace of BMW's to start us off this week and we'll be totally honest and say most of us can't afford either of them, nor could we get the best performance out of them.

Honda's Insight - a hybrid but hardly a planet-saver, and then two top-of-the-range cars from Hyundai which hint at a new level of luxury, even a new brand. But it's news time first.

In the show this week:-

NEWS

BMW M3 GT2 ART CAR

BMW M3 GTS

HONDA INSIGHT

HYUNDAI VERA CRUZ

HYUNDAI AZERA

Motorsport Mundial 35-10

This week on Motorsport Mundial we've got high speed action from Northern Ireland at the Ulster Grand Prix, but we start in the Isle of man with the British Rally Championship.

BTCC Event 7 Silverstone

Tom Chilton and Tom Onslow-Cole won all three of today’s Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races at Silverstone to make it a clean sweep for their Team Aon squad. Chilton won the day’s first two races before Onslow-Cole took victory in the third – a result that has enabled him to slash the gap to championship leader Jason Plato to just 14 points as the BTCC title race moves to the spectacular Knockhill circuit in Fife for its next round on Sunday 5 September.

Onslow-Cole led races one and two but in each was overtaken by Chilton before the chequered flag. In race one their Ford Focuses, powered by LPG turbo engines, crossed the line first and second ahead of Plato’s Silverline Chevrolet Cruze. But in race two WSR BMW driver Robert Collard was able to split them as he muscled past Onslow-Cole on the final lap to take a hard-fought second place. Plato finished this race in fourth.

In race three, Paul O’Neill led away from the reversed grid’s pole position but was eventually overhauled by Onslow-Cole who drew clear for a comfortable win. O’Neill was still a hugely popular second in his Honda Integra, run by the small Sunshine.co.uk with Tech-Speed Motorsport team. Airwaves BMW driver Mat Jackson crossed the line in third after a robust move on Chilton.

Behind, Oxford-based Plato could only manage ninth after a tangle with old rival, the Honda Racing Team’s Matt Neal, sent him into a spin at the first corner. Having gone into the day 20 points clear of Neal – at one stage today his lead was out to 29 – Plato leaves Silverstone still on top of the table but by a much reduced margin over new nearest challenger Onslow-Cole. Warwickshire's Neal, who today achieved eighth, fifth and fourth places in his Honda Civic, is third in the standings, a further nine points adrift.

New Malden-based Onslow-Cole, who also set the fastest lap in all three races – one of them a new lap record – said: “To make so much ground in one day on Jason and Matt is amazing and to be up to second and to be not so far off the lead in second feels fantastic. Snetterton two weeks ago seemed to suit the Chevrolet, here it was the turn of our car so it could be Matt’s turn at Knockhill where everybody expects the Civic to be strong. With just three rounds to go things are bound to start getting tense so it will be really important to take as many points as possible and keep up the pressure.”

Meanwhile, Arena/Ford has moved past Honda/Dynamics into the lead of the Manufacturers/Constructors Championship. It has closed in on the Honda Racing Team at the top of the HiQ Teams’ standings as well, the gap between them now down to just five points. Onslow-Cole’s Silverstone results have hoisted him back into the lead of the Independent Drivers’ title race. Team Aon has also taken over the lead of the Independent Teams’ table from Airwaves BMW.

Fiesta World Tour - Leg 1 - Part 1 - VNR

A 60-day, 21-country, 15,000-mile circumnavigation of the globe has kicked off on Santa Monica Pier in Los Angeles.   Between now and mid October, the 'Fiesta World Tour 2010' will cross the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East, China, Southeast Asia and finally Australia -- on the other side of the Pacific from the Baywatch beaches of L.A. where the tour started.

Regular VNRs will be available for download via the Dystribute network.

Auto Mundial 34-10

We'll start the week with the news headlines as usual, and then we'll have a look at the Five Series BMW, a hugely important new car for the German manufacturer, battling to stay top of the executive pile. Piles of a very different nature next, and we're talking French and meaning batteries, as we have a look at the very bottom of today's car market and the very pinnacle of tomorrow's.

In the show this week:

NEWS

BMW 528 Li

DACIA LOGAN VAN

GM ENV

LAND ROVER EVOQUE

RENAULT DE ZIR

British Rally Championship 2010 - Round 5 News

Craig Breen and Gareth Roberts won International Rally NI, part of the Toddsleap.com Ulster Rally by a margin of nearly a minute and a half after two days of competition, not only his debut event win, but the first UK victory for the awesome Fiesta Super 2000.

Keith Cronin and Barry McNulty took second, strengthening their bid for back to back victories in the Dulux Trade MSA British Rally Championship, after a fierce fight with Gwyndaf Evans and Phil Pugh ended when the Welshman hit a wall and cooked the engine.

Cronin’s second place helps Pirelli TEG Sport move back into the lead of the prestigious Dulux Trade MSA Teams Rally Championship as his team-mates Adam Gould and Craig Drew finished the event in a creditable fourth place.

Sandwiched between Cronin and Gould, respectively current and past winners of the Pirelli Star Driver competition, were Alastair Fisher and Rory Kennedy. The local crew had a frustratingly lonely rally, the youngster unable to find the last ounce of commitment on the ultra fast sections, but sufficiently quick to take top Mitsubishi Ralliart Evolution Challenge honours.

Taking the Pirelli Star Driver nomination on Rally NI was absolute newcomer to the championship. Having registered before the last round, Rally Isle of Man Irish duo Daniel McKenna and his co-driver Andrew Grennan set some excellent stage times, beating Fisher on several of the two days’ stages. Despite retiring on the penultimate stage, his performance was all the more impressive as the event was his first in a four wheel drive car, the Mitsubishi Evo 9 hired just for this event.

Still leading the championship and still surprised to be doing so was Jonny Greer. Who, ably guided by Dai Roberts, finished sixth registered driver despite a broken gear linkage on the final stage.

Certainly worthy of note, although not registered for the Dulux Trade BRC, was Frenchman Bryan Bouffier, who finished first two wheel drive and fifth overall on the stunning Citroën DS3 R3 rally car’s International debut. The car ran faultlessly and could be a force to be reckoned with in next year’s championship.

Leading championship two wheel drive runners were Elfyn Evans and Andrew Edwards who survived a notchy gearbox late on to take not only seventh place of the DTBRC crews, but secure maximum points in the Kick Energy Fiesta SportTrophy. The sixth straight win is more than enough to seal the series for the youngster who only needed a single point to take the title.

Also running in the Rally 2 class were top placed Citroën racing Trophy crew Mark Donnelly and Aiden Friel who kept their heads while many of the other one-make series runners lost theirs. They counted themselves lucky though to be at the Antrim finish having suffered a total electrical shutdown and subsequent misfire on the final stage.

The sole finisher in the Swift Sport Cup was Tom Clark with new co-driver Chris Brooks. They had a fraught weekend, using three gearboxes in their Suzuki and forced to use Super Rally to re-start on Saturday when the second replacement proved time-consuming to change.

The only registered finishers in the Rally 3 class were yet again brothers Steve and Tony Graham, who nursed their diesel Astra round on Saturday with a standard differential, their competition one uncharacteristically failing.

Motorsport Mundial 34-10

In Motorsport Mundial this week there is the opening round of the world Supermoto championship at Castelletto Di Branduzzo. The British Rally championship continues with round 3 at the Jim Clark rally while the British Touring car championship is at Snetterton and the World Motocross championship goes to Uddevalla.

Auto Mundial 33-10

We start with a ride in the Mazda 3, a small car with a big job on its hands, a look at Honda's hybrid coupe that's not so sporty after all, and a tricycle concept that will never be made. Then we're speaking in hushed whispers so we can hear the clock ticking in our Roller, going all-electric racing with Westfield and offroading with Hyundai - but it's news time first.

In the show this week:-

NEWS

MAZDA 3

HONDA CRV

HONDA 3RC

ROLLS ROYCE GHOST

ROLLS ROYCE PHANTOM

WESTFIELD i-RACER

HYUNDAI TUCSON

Motorsport Mundial 33-10

On the program this week fast pace road racing at the Southern 100 in the Isle of Man despite the far from perfect conditions. The British rally championship holds its second round of the year as heads to Carlisle in the North of England, while in Belgium we find out how United Autosports got on when they made their début at the 24 hours of Spa.

BTCC Event 6 Snetterton

Jason Plato and Gordon Shedden were the winners of today’s three Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship races at the high-speed Snetterton circuit in Norfolk. Plato won both races one and two and with chief rival Matt Neal experiencing mixed fortunes it means the Chevrolet driver has turned an eight-point deficit into a 20-point lead over his Honda rival as the BTCC heads for its next round at the world-famous Silverstone circuit in Northamptonshire in a fortnight’s time (Sunday 22 August).

Plato led both the day’s first two races from start to finish – despite his Silverline Chevrolet Cruze being laden with 36kgs of success ballast in race one and then the maximum 45kgs in race two. He also set the fastest lap in both to ensure he took a pair of maximum scores. Neal, meanwhile, retired from race one with a puncture and could only manage ninth in race two.

In race three, Neal’s team-mate Shedden was gifted a clear run to victory when early leader James Nash’s Triple Eight Vauxhall Vectra span off the track. Neal took third to give the Honda Racing Team a 1-3 result with Plato backing up his two earlier wins with fifth. Shedden’s result, following fourth and eighth places in races one and two, keep him third in the overall standings and he has in fact closed to within just four points of Neal.