Archive for the ‘Races & supportclasses’ Category

Hans and Carly Meskes – A HMR driver biography

Time 07:33, 1 juli, 2010

Started as motorsport fan visiting races and rally’s in the seventies, helped some Dutch drivers with there Formula Ford but found more adventure and friendlier atmosphere in rallying. Started driving rally’s in 1980 with cars in the smallest class to keep it affordable with Honda Civic’s and Suzuki Swifts, after many class wins and highlights like competing twice in the Manx Rally I stopped in 1996. Two sponsors stopped, somebody gave the right price for the car and all the spares so that was that.

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How to communicate on the track – Racing Flags

Time 03:04, 23 juni, 2010

Racing flags are used in almost all motorsport to indicate track condition and to communicate important messages to drivers. Typically, the starter, sometimes the grand marshal of a race, waves the flags atop a flag stand near the start/finish line. On road courses, track marshals are also stationed at observation posts along the course in order to communicate both local and course-wide conditions to drivers. Alternatively, some racecourses employ lights to supplement the primary flag at the start/finish line.

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Louis Banka Johnson – A HMR driver biography

Time 08:03, 9 juni, 2010

I live in the little seaside tourist village Åhus (home of ”Absolut Vodka”) in the south eastern part Sweden. Born 1957 in Ghanaian but now also naturalized Swedish.

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Partner series – Drifting

Time 09:44, 26 maj, 2010

In drifting the speed is important, but it´s not always the one with the highest speed that wins in the end. Instead, the winner is the one who skid’s widest with the nicest line trough the track. Also the public’s ovations can determine the outcome.

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Rolf Johansson – A HMR driver biography

Time 01:53, 18 maj, 2010

I started my motor sports career in 1964, by running the ice-track in ”Uppland Cup” for two seasons. 1967, I was tired of being employed and started Nacka Biltrim with specialty in car heating system.

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FMX & Driftshow with Frog & Flap

Time 03:05, 12 maj, 2010

For all you FMX and drift fans we have an exiting little surprise. The FMX drivers Frog & Flap comes to The Race Legends to perform there cool tricks. For those who doesn’t know, FMX is a variation on the sport of motocross in which motorcycle riders attempt to impress judges with jumps and stunts.

FMX jumps with a hight of 15-20 m with different tricks.

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Frans Parfant – A HMR driver biography

Time 10:19, 11 maj, 2010

Frans is born in 1951, married with Yvonne and has two daughters and two little granddaughters. Since 1957 he visites all the autosportraces you can imagine, such as races for exemple formula-cars, touringcars and motor Grand-Prix and NL – B – D. He growed up in an village full with Jaguar D’s X1920, A.R. Zagato, Devin, Porsche 590, Carrera, Lotus F3 and Lotus Elan.

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Formula Renault – The legend cars

Time 07:20, 30 april, 2010

Formula Renault is a class of formula racing founded in 1971 and is popular in Europe and other countries. Regarded as an entry-level series to motor racing, it is a respected series where drivers can learn advanced racecraft before moving on to Formula Three, World Series by Renault, GP2 or Formula One.

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The Race Legends at the first race of DTM 2010

Time 08:35, 23 april, 2010

Part of the organization is at the moment at Hockenheimring in Germany for business meetings and to see the impressive logistics behind this great series.

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Nordic GT, supportclass at The Race Legends, launches new site

Time 01:43, 12 mars, 2010

Welcome to Nordic GT and the fight for the north european GT championship. The season starts with the launch of a new, good looking site.

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Superkart videos

Time 11:03, 1 mars, 2010

The Race Legends is pleased to present two onboard-videos from Superkart, one of the Supportclasses that will race in August. Both clips are from the German Hockenheimring and shows the great performance of this amazing class.

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Super fast Superkarts accelerate like a lightning strike

Time 11:28, 27 januari, 2010

There are only a few drivers who gets the experience of sitting inches from the asphalt at speeds over 200 km/h on the track. But this is common for the experienced drivers who will compete in the European series of superkart.

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Gran Turismo cars spanning muscles

Time 11:23, 27 januari, 2010

Muscle cars with a lot of horsepower will be given the opportunity to show off their great performance when the GT class starts their race.

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Historic Formula Cars enters the track as a supportclass

Time 10:59, 27 januari, 2010

For those who have never seen a Formula car this may be a chance to experience a part of motorsport history.

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