We’re now in September and back to school! FE students have started back already whilst the HE students return at the end of the month. This is a vitally important time for both staff and students with the transition phase from one level to the next being vitally important in order to hit the ground […]

  We are now in August which means the half way point of the F1 season in which Sebastian Vettel holds a strong 38 point lead over his rivals. The battle behind him in the championship is very close with Raikkonen, Alonso and Hamilton separated by only 10 points with 9 races to go. The […]

Welcome to my July blog. Following on from last months blog, the Mercedes GP tyre test situation has reached a conclusion with both Mercedes and Pirelli being reprimanded by the FIA for the test, with Mercedes also being banned from the young driver test coming up after the German GP. Both Ferrari and Red Bull […]

We are now half way through the calendar year, near the end of the academic year and settling into the motorsport season nicely! With summer starting to make an appearance, motorsport events become a much more pleasant place to be for the spectator. As most race circuits are built on old airfields, the shelter from […]

  Time for another blog, and it seems that the sun isarriving in May which is finally nice to see! There’s lots of news to discuss this month, the first being the new FIA Formula E championship starting in 2014. http://formula-e-news.com/ This exciting new championship is set to run in 10 cities, including London. There […]

          The Bridgwater College racing team have started the racing season on a high! Don’t forget, the next race day (May 6th) will feature on Motors TV all day. If you fancy seeing the team in motion in the meantime, you can view recent clips on You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ7upthj83g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84qkgEN98bc […]

Welcome to my March Bog. The motorsport season is fast approaching now and ties in with the end of the F1 pre-season testing. The Australian Grand Prix is only weeks away (17th March). Testing as usual was difficult to read into as the only indication of car set-up based on lap time, was tyre choice. […]

  We are now back in full flow at college and have just been validated by Oxford Brookes University to run their BSc(Hons) Motorsport Technology course here at Bridgwater College in which we will now offer students potentially 5 years of Motorsport qualifications. The workshop has been busy and we are off to RPE (Radical […]

Happy New Year to everyone and I hope you all had a good Christmas! We are now already through the first half of the off season for motorsport and are gathering pace towards the new race season which generally starts around April for most championships. We’ve been very busy with the college race car, with […]

Time for my November blog and we seem to be fast approaching Christmas! We have had our last race of the season with the Bridgwater College Radical PR6 in which we finished 6th out of 25 cars. Since then, we have started to take the car apart for the winter in order to refresh a […]