Maserati – Luxury and Performance with Style
Suzanne Keane takes a look at the Maserati brand, past, present and future The rumble of a Ferrari engine catches your attention before a gleaming trident badge comes into view – a muscular piece of Italian engineering that turns heads on every corner – a Maserati. It all began in the early 1900s with Rodolfo Maserati, a railroad worker, whose son Carlo Maserati designed a single cylinder engine at age 17 after inheriting a lust...
The Inside Track with Aimee Woods
Buckle Up! Aimee Woods joins us as a regular contributor with her own column, the Inside Track, we follow her progress through Formula Vee plus Aimee will be sharing her tips and advice, as a racing instructor. It’s almost June and the mid-season madness that every championship brings is in full swing and I’ve deemed this the appropriate time to dive straight in. Having been certain last March that the 2015 season was not my year to...
One To Watch: Alyx Coby
We catch up with 10-year-old Alyx Coby, a young kart racer from Newbridge, Co. Kildare, who wants to make it all the way to the top Ten year old Alyx Coby is youngest of the Coby family to enter the competitive world of motorsport. Alyx first started racing in 2013, aged 8, in the Cadet class of Motorsport Ireland’s karting championship. These karts run with a 60cc 2 stroke Comer pull start engine with a top speed of around 95km/h. ...
We’re growing! Aimee Woods Joins WheelsForWomen.ie as a Contributor
We’re very excited to announce that Aimee Woods is joining WheelsForWomen.ie as a regular contributor Racing Instructor, Aimee Woods has her sights on becoming the first female to win a Formula Vee race in Ireland and will compete in the remainder of the 2015 season. No stranger to racing, Aimee attended her first rally at just two weeks old, but her career began in earnest in 2010 in a Fiat Uno. After an action-packed racing season...
Car Finance Options
How to get the best deal when it comes to buying a new car, we look at your car finance options writes Geraldine Herbert The number of brand new cars driven off forecourts in the first quarter of this year was up 28% on the previous year’s figures. The second half of the year may well prove to be even more buoyant. Last year the second half of 2013 outperformed the same period the previous year by a substantial 65% thanks to the...
Road rage: What you feel behind the wheel
In the new documentary Mean Streets, Geraldine Herbert learns how the stresses and strains of driving affect her Driving gets most of us in a tizzy. The endless stopping and starting, the traffic jams and the right-hand-turn-only lane when you’re desperate to go left. The peak-hour traffic experience is the stuff of nightmares. But how stressful is driving really? As part of an RTE documentary entitled Mean Streets, I agreed to...
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