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Category - Driving

Cost Of Traffic Lights In UK Not Known – Department of Transport/Highways Agency

I was originally going to write an article questioning the point of traffic lights but when I tried to find out how much a traffic lights cost I was shocked to find out that the Department of Transport does not know and neither do the Highways Agency.

And the average cost of a traffic light installation is [...]

Higgins Impreza STI Isle of Man

I heard of the incident from EVO Magazine.

Apparently Subaru of America were trying to set a new lap record of the TT circuit in a road car as a promotional event and Road & Track magazine were there to cover the action.

Slightly more action than they were probably expecting as it turns out, [...]

Lap Times

Lap Times – Tsukuba Lap Times,BedfordAutodrome, Serres, Hockenheim, Nurburgring

 

A spreadsheet of lap times of many performance and supercars. Lap times have been recorded at the Nurburgring Nordschleife, Bedford Autodrome West Circuit, Hockenheim Short Circuit, Serres Circuit inGreece&Tsukuba,Japan. The lap times have been recorded by EVO Magazine in theUK, Drive Magazine inGreece, Sport Auto [...]

Driving Experiences

Driving Experience UK,USA,Australia,New Zealand- Driving Experience Organisers

StrikeEngine – Links directly to the companies offering driving experiences in theUK,USA,AustraliaandNew Zealand. Driving Experience organisers are fully qualified and their websites have clear pricing and itineraries for the driving experiences that they offer. Driving experiences vary from quad bikes to single seaters to NASCAR stock cars, V8 [...]

Young Driver Training

Young Driver Training – Young Driver Accident Analysis

Young drivers, especially males, have relatively more accidents than other drivers. Young driver accidents also have somewhat different characteristics to those of other drivers; they include single vehicle accidents involving loss of control; excess speed for conditions; accidents during darkness; accidents on single carriageway rural roads; and [...]

DVLA SORN

We have been reading about some horror stories about the activities of the DVLA, particularly in Practical Performance Car Magazine (PPC) (one of the best car related magazines at the time of writing, if your a car fanatic get your subscription today, click here) and on various forums. Tails include fines being issued despite SORN declarations being [...]

Rally & Race Schools

Rally Schools UK & USA – Race & Rally School Driving Experiences

Racing and Rally Schools as well as Driving experiences and Driver training for the Road and Track. Excellent activities for Individuals and Groups. Courses are offered as personal and corporate activities as well as gift ideas.

Rally Schools and Race Schools

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Track Day Organisers

Track Day Organisers – UK & European Track Days – Car Track Days

UK Track Day Directory. Sites include UK Track Day Dates and Prices and General Track Day Information such as Insurance, Car Setup, Circuit Descriptions and Track Day Driving Techniques - A brief introduction to track days: Track Day Car Preparation – Basic things here. [...]

World’s Deadliest Roads

You might have seen Top Gear with Clarkson May and hammond on Bolivia. They went on the “Worlds deadiest road” apparently. Let me tell you something. I saw a TV series yesterday which made the “World’s deadliest road” look like Germany.

There is a program showing on History Channel Europe at the time of writing [...]

Speed Camera Minister on Top Gear

We were watching a re-run of Top Gear (Series 7 Episode 3) last night and a guy called Ladyman was on the show. At the time of the show he was the minister of Road Safety (Speed Cameras). Considering Jeremy Clarkson tends to like having a laugh instead of getting into the nitty gritty the [...]