MSport Talk: Frank Motorsport Opinions & Debate

Thought I would step away from the real world motorsport for a moment and give you all my opinions on this nifty little mobile game from Invictus. Daytona Rush is a fairly basic but none the less fun arcade style "racer" for your phone or tablet device. The aim is simple, overtake many cars on the oval raceway by tapping or swiping the screen left or right to move your car, avoid other cars, make fuel stops when required and pick up repairs when you can if you have experienced contact. The more cars you pass the more money you make, the more money you make the more upgrades to the engine (faster car, better fuel economy), drive train (better lane changing), and bodywork (more resilient to contact) to improve overall performance. There are also various challenges to meet during the races well, I say races you are not scored on a position and as far as I have played you cannot win a race as you seem to just continue around the oval until you hit too many other cars resultin...

Now, maybe you think i'm being premature here but please bear with me. For the last few years Endurance racing has been on the up and at the heart of it has always been the Le Mans 24 Hour race, since the 80th running in 2012 when Toyota stepped up to the plate and ran Audi close endurance racing seemed to change, and change for the better as we now see drivers, teams, squads on it from the green light weather it be a 6 or 24 hour race with no quarter asked or given until the flag falls a minimum of a quarter of a day later. Le Mans 2015, for me, was one of the greats in a line of great Le Mans events, mainly because many thought - me included that Audi would once again triumph as they have done 13 times previous this century. I like many other was wrong, I even shrugged off the Porsche's qualifying pace and, when Audi started setting quick times in Saturday morning warm up I was feeling quite smug. All credit to Porsche though, they have worked very, very hard over the winte...

In July tens of thousands of people head to Silverstone to enjoy a weekend of top class international racing - among other things. No I'm not talking about the British Grand Prix, but the Silverstone Classic, a festival for want of a better word for the petrol head who maybe wishes to see great on track action and maybe a little more, with cars ranging from early 1900s right up to early 2000s there is something for everyone on display - and racing. Racing hard! Sports cars, Touring cars, GTs, Prototypes and F1 all feature in both high speed demonstration runs and proper (and on occasion sanctioned) races. For most the main draws will be the 1970s/80s FIA Historic F1, FIA Historic Group C and the Super Touring BTCC machines of the 90s but the line up will also include: Pre war Sports cars Pre 1966 GT & Pre 1967 Sports cars competing for the Gurads Trophy Sub 2 litre Touring car category (expect plenty of Lotus Cortinas) Historic Formula Juniors (around 60+ cars supposedly...