Unleash your inner racing driver at the Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone
The experience centre at Silverstone is where you can really explore the potential of Porsche cars, writes Geraldine Herbert As the needle on the speedometer zips toward the red line and we nudge closer to the bend, I am reminded by my instructor to “brake, brake hard”. A few laps around this very twisty racetrack and the nuances of braking, accelerating and steering are finally being digested and I learn the crucial...
Picking the Perfect Wheels!
Maybe you are bored with your steel wheels or your existing alloys are looking a little tired. New wheels can make or break a car – but before you choose a style you need to know what will and won’t fit your car. Suzanne Keane guides you through the maze that is the perfect wheels The first step to deciding on your new wheels is to take off one of your existing wheels and look at the back of it to see if anything is...
Jennifer Mullan competes at the Phillip Island Classic, Australia
We catch up with Jennifer Mullan who made her international motor racing debut at the Phillip Island Classic, Australia in part one of her Diary of a Racing Driver Down Under Part One – Phillip Island Classic, Australia It still hasn’t fully sunk in but just two weeks ago I was racing a Formula Ford around Phillip Island in Australia!! I don’t fully know if I have the right words to describe this experience but I’m going to...
Tyre safety awareness campaign
71 road deaths in Ireland between 2008-2012 had defective tyres as a contributing factor of the related crashes writes Geraldine Herbert Today at the launch of a tyre safety awareness campaign by the Road Safety Authority and An Garda Siochana new figures reveal that vehicle factors contributed to 1 in 8 fatal collisions analysed between 2008 and 2012. Defective tyres were the most significant factor, representing almost two thirds...
DS 3 PureTech 110
Hannah Gordon checks out the new and very stylish DS 3 PureTech 110 What is it? The DS 3 has been a huge success for DS and since its launch in 2010 it has been the car of choice for more than 320,000 customers worldwide. The revised DS 3 comes from the new DS brand, one that stands apart from its sister company Citroen, there is in fact no Citroen badging to be found on the DS 3 for the first time. Who is it aimed at? Predominantly...
