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Abbi Pulling: “I just keep getting better and better”
Teenage racing driver Abbi Pulling is in her second season of British Formula 4 with Motul-backed team JHR Developments. Currently sitting...
23.07.2021Roger Féghali: “The Lebanese rally is like an Irish tarmac stage”
Fourteen times Lebanese Rally champion. Winner of numerous hill climb trophies. And title holder of 39 local rallies. Roger Féghali is one of...
23.07.2021MIDLAND SPEED SHOP: REBUILDING RARE SCARAB F1 ENGINES
Midland Speed Shop is an engine specialist based in the UK. But this is no ordinary workshop. One of the projects they’re currently working...
23.07.2021RESTORING THE SIMCA JULIEN JH1 – A FRENCH RACING ICON
Henri Julien was born in 1927 in France. After watching the Nice Grand Prix as a young man, he caught the motorsport bug and set out on a...
22.07.2021LUCA CIANCETTI: “IT WAS A TOUGH CHALLENGE BUT HERE WE ARE WITH TWO HYPERCARS”
For the WEC 6 Hours of Monza, the Glickenhaus team came out in full force, bringing both of the SCG 007 Le Mans hypercars as a final test...
22.07.2021SÉBASTIEN PETIT: “THERE’S A LOT OF GAIN USING MOTUL”
Sébastien and Kevin Petit are a racing dynasty in the world of hillclimb. Sébastien runs Team Petit Auto Sport, a French team competing in...
22.07.2021RICKY ELDER: “NOT ALL OILS ARE CREATED EQUAL”
Ricky Elder runs RE Performance, a UK-based workshop specialising in high-end servicing and rebuilds for supercars. His particular expertise...
22.07.2021MICHELA CERRUTI: “WE CONVERTED AN ALFA ROMEO GIULIA TO AN ELECTRIC RACECAR”
Michela Cerruti is an Italian racing driver, currently a team manager in the ETCR International Series. She made her racing debut in the...
20.07.2021YVES MEYER: “FORMULA DRIFT IS ALL ABOUT GRIP AND PURE POWER”
Swiss drifter and long-time Motul partner Yves Meyer has lept across the pond to compete in one of the most competitive drifting series in...
15.07.2021PIOTR WIĘCEK: “DRIFTING IN THE US AND EUROPE COULDN’T BE MORE DIFFERENT”
After a long and incredibly successful career in Formula Drift, Polish wheel ace Piotr Więcek is returning to European soil to compete in the...
15.07.2021British F4’s JHR: “We’ve won in every single series we’ve been in”
The Ford British F4 championship is more than a support act to the British Touring Car Championship. It’s a feeder platform for the top...
15.07.2021Andrea Bénézet : “You need to be able to do a lap with your eyes closed”
Frenchman AndreaBénézetis only 19, but already he’s storming up the leaderboard in the GT4 European Series behind the wheel of a Toyota...
15.07.2021ROBIN SHUTE ENGINEERING HIS WAY UP PIKES PEAK
British racing driver and automotive engineer Robin Shute was crowned “king of the mountain” at Pikes Peak for the second time in a row. A...
08.07.2021ANDREW JORDAN: “THESE ARE EXPENSIVE CARS AND WE NEED RELIABILITY”
In 2013, Andrew Jordan won the British Touring Car Championship behind the wheel of a Honda Civic. But the Motul ambassador has since retired...
08.07.2021FORD BRITISH F4 CHAMPIONSHIP GETS A MOTUL BOOST
For nearly 55 years, Formula Ford has been paving the way for legions of legendary drivers. The list of Formula One stars who have cut their...
01.07.2021TOYOTA GAZOO RACING TEAM THAILAND: “IF WE DIDN’T USE MOTUL PRODUCTS, WE WOULDN’T SURVIVE THE RACE”
It’s not called the Green Hell for nothing. For the drivers, every lap of the Nürburgring is fraught with danger. But for the Toyota Gazoo...
01.07.2021REVIVING AN F1 LEGEND: THE NEW BRM V16
In the late 1940s, engineer and industrialist Alfred Owen joined a consortium to run British Racing Motors (BRM), Britain’s original Formula...
01.07.2021THE 1000HP BMW M4 DRIFTER BY RED BULL DRIFT BROTHERS
Johannes and Elias Hountondji are better known as the Red Bull Drift Brothers. A dynamic duo that is the arch-enemy of any tyre fitted to...
24.06.2021THE QUEEN OF DRIFT: MEET THE 14-YEAR-OLD ROMANIAN DRIFTER
Alice Ene from Romania might only be 14 years old, but already she’s blitzing a trail in the world of drift. Recently, she was crowned “Drift...
24.06.2021THE MOTUL DODGE CHARGER: “IT’S A HANDFUL TO DRIVE”
More than 40 years ago, a Dodge Charger took part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. A replica of that car, using an original Le Mans race engine,...
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