Having attended the recent Paul Walker Memorial cruise which started in Antrim I found myself questioning something I’ve loved for the best part of fifteen years as a petrolhead, is the car cruise part of our scene as dead as one of our favourite movie franchise stars? Case in point: The Paul Walker Memorial Cruise. It was started two years ago after the passing of arguably one of the biggest on and off screen petrolhead who is known the world over. For those unlikely few who know nothing about him, he was the actor who played one of the lead…
Author: Brian Black
I recently had the loan of a 2015 Kia Cee’d 1.6 CRDI 1 EcoDynamic for a few weeks and I was pleasantly surprised by Kia’s “entry level”, small family hatchback. Hyundai hold a major share of Kia Motors having rescued them from bankruptcy (beating off bids from Ford) in 1998 during the Asian Financial Crisis. It seems to have been a good investment for Hyundai as over the past few years Kia have gone from strength to strength (I know that’s an old Peugeot slogan, but it fits). Anyway, back to the car. Prior to taking the loan of this…
Having just recently moved house, I found myself actually looking forward to it and decorating what is soon to be “Castle Black.” Then it hit me! I’ve grown up! For a few frenzied moments I tried to work out how and when it happened, but I kept drawing blanks. As I started to calm down, I started thinking about how RMS has also grown up. Or I suppose, more aptly, how the site has evolved over the years since I first joined way back in 2002, not long after the forum in started in 2001. Back then the site was clearly…
Over the past year or so I have been trying my hand at Motorsport Marshalling and I for one have found it very enjoyable and rewarding. However it is a part of Motorsport that is suffering from a seeming lack of interest which could have disastrous effects to everyone who par takes in the sport, from Drivers to spectators alike. Gone are the days of mass crowds on Rally Stages such as there was in the heyday of Rallying mainly due to the large numbers of fatalities during the Group B Rally era of ’82 to ’86. This was a…