Round 2, Touring cars

Ok now it's time to choose your most iconic livery in the Touring Car category. I have added the DTM into this category too.

Cliff Calibre DTM


Texaco RS500 Sierra Cosworth


Peugeot 406 BTCC 1998


1997 Williams Renault Laguna BTCC


Alfa Romeo 155 1994


Volvo 850 Estate 1994


BMW M3 1988



The touring car round is now at an end! Thank you to all that voted a total of 132! so thank you.

Your winner with 63 votes (48%) is.....
BMW M3 1988

Round 1, Which WRC Livery is the most iconic?

Ok People, it is time to start voting.

The first semi final will be for the WRC. In this round I will just list the nominations with a picture of each, show your support for your favourite via the poll below.


1. Subaru Impreza WRC


2. Lancia Delta- Martini Livery


3. Atlitalia Lancia Stratos


4. Ken Block- Ford Fiesta WRC Monster


5. Citroen DS3 Red Bull WRC


Let the voting begin, I will leave the poll to run for a number of days so we can get this completed and a champion. Vote wisely.

(p.s I did not nominate these were done by my readers)

The WINNER of this round is:
Lancia Delta- Martini Livery

Most Iconic Livery in motorsport, YOUR HELP NEEDED!

I'm in the hunt for the most iconic livery in motorsport.

I will be taking anything into consideration as long as the livery raced it counts, so anything from the motorbike world, F1, NASCAR, touring cars, WRC and anything else I have missed.

It must be iconic or absolutely beautiful and must have raced in some form, I need your help to nominate your favourite via twitter to @jimmyb_84 or leave a comment on this post (hopefully I'll sort email too). From all your nominations I will create a short-list from most nominated and leave the final decision to you guys via a poll. I you can provide a picture, it would help but it's not a condition to nominate.

I will give you a week to send them in! Please retweet this blog so we can get a comprehensive list!

UPDATE!

I have completed a nominations list which can be found on the link below

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RFGBTq6gQztKgb9wIe-40Es4WfjNTq0wJSXzFYI3Gek/edit?hl=en_US

I will split into 5 categorises F1, WRC, GT/Le Man, Touring Cars and Other.

You will vote for a winner in each, then this 5 will compete for the over all title of #mosticoniclivery Please RT this blog so we get as many votes as possible.

Thank you for all your nominations!

Why Hamilton must get wings?

Lewis Hamilton must leave Mclaren and head for Red Bull Racing if he wants to be a driver that goes down in history-as a great.

For Hamilton to join RBR one of the two drivers would have to exit the team and we all know that is not going to be Vettel. This leaves Mark Webber as the possible leaver from the team, before the Silverstone GP you would of said this is unlikely but after I'm not so sure.

I would say that Webber completely ignored the team orders issued to him over the radio and being a number 2 to Vettel is no longer ideal for the Australian, a move is on the cards.

If this was to come true, a vacant seat could be going spare for the 26yr. In my opinion RBR are one of the only teams that could afford Hamilton for a start and for further racing reasons Hamilton needs this too.

Hamilton needs to follow other greats from the sport including Prost, Senna, Schumacher and even Alonso to a Degree. All great driver only become great driver by winning. All these drivers have been in the right car at the right time, it's an extra sense the greats have, Hamilton needs to realise this to get himself into that Red Bull and take advantage of Adrian Newey! If he stays at Mclaren I cannot see him winning another championship any time soon (Although I'd love to see this happen) a decline seems to be happening at Mclaren. That is another story for another day.

Lewis could fade into the distance if he does not get into a more competitive drive and being in Red Bull would be his best shot, he would not get dominated by Vettel as he'd have the extra speed and aggressive driving style and could equal the balance, within the RBR team.

It is time for Hamilton to leave Mclaren and become a great.

when is it on?

The one thing that bugs the hell out of me is all this great motor-sport from all around the world and we have no chance to watch it live! We first hear about from news feeds via social media.

How are we suppose to get excited and become fans of these series if we have no way of watching it, we have to wait for some crap highlight show, where the presenter knows nothing about it (I won't name any names).

I for example am a massive fan of the V8 supercars, we have to wait a week to see re-runs of the races via motors TV (I'm grateful they show it at all) but by that time my twitter feed has ruined the results and I find it hard to be on the edge of my seat, ignore Twitter for a week no chance! V8 supercars will only allow Australian's to access a live broadband feed to I can't watch that either! Looks like we have to wait for the only live race-Bathurst.

Some series are catching on though, for example, the FIA GT1 World championship show a free live feed via there website, which includes all practice and race sessions. I fully recommend watching it.

I wished they could show a live feed to any country that has no TV rights or make a live feed available for a couple of quid, in an itunes stylie. I'd love to see things like the DTM, British GT among hundreds more.....

Get motor-sport to the fans and you'll benefit in the long run, plus if your being viewed, you'll get sponsored.......... Just let us see it LIVE for god sake!

Hello it's me

Before I start to blog on a regular basis I thought I would introduce myself to you all.

I'm currently working for Motors TV writing race reports and news articles for the website content. If you google "James Foster Motors TV" you should find a few things I have wrote. I was lucky enough to attend the first ever event using Silverstone new pit complex, what a stunning facility they have provided and it's about time too!

Basiclly I will pass comment on anything motorsport as I love nearly all of it. I will mention anything from touring cars, GT's, V8 Supercars, British Superbikes right through to F1 and Moto GP. I may even mention the WRC too.

I'm not sure what to start with first the F1 'blown diffuser' joke or the WRC tactics that ruin what could be the greatest championship for years.

If there a championship you'd like to here about just email or tweet me via @jimmy_b_84