Having tried its ‘warm’ brother, we felt that the Citroen DS3 was a pretty sorted hatch. But we (Alex especially) wanted a bit more power. Which is handy, really, because Citroen brought out the DS3 Racing – a harder, faster and brighter hatch. Read more

Hello and welcome to another Gas Station Podisode! This Podisode sees us talking about the all new Porsche 911 GT3 RS 4.0, the Mugen CR-Z, the whole Caterham/Team Lotus buyout, the many faces of the Nissan Leaf, the Lexus LF-Gh, the slinky Citroen DS5, a very expensive MINI, a turbocharged BMW Z4 and the usual ‘Wot we haz droven’ and ‘Stuff on the web that isn’t crap’. Below you’ll find some time references and some content surrounding what we’re talking about. Read more

Gareth Evans (who works for the wonderful Parkers) has been learning to race – he’s going to talk us through the process from weeing into a cup, to actually getting on track. The first part of his tale is after the jump. Enjoy. Read more

After feeding time it was back into the classroom and time for the written part of the ARDS test. It’s composed of four sections – the written flag test is the first bit, and you can’t afford one slip-up. The rest is mainly about racing safely, and isn’t too challenging if you’ve got a bit of common sense. It was over in less than 15 minutes, and you could almost feel the sigh of relief as we filed out of the room. Read more

The next day I went to book my licence exam, known as the ARDS (Association of Racing Drivers) test. I knew I wanted to do it at Silverstone. Call me fickle but if I’m going to start somewhere, it might as well be the British GP venue. There were two dates available in the coming months, but I had a prior engagement on the April one with a car company in another part of the world. May 9th it was, then. Read more