David Coveney

I’m not going to be chal­len­ging for any­thing much this year, but on April 26^th I ambled along to the Ain­tree Spring Sprint and took some snaps. A selec­tion of them are avail­able here. Use them as you like, but don’t remove the tag. If you’d like to receive a higher quality […]

Each year, Liv­er­pool Motor Club holds three sprints at the clas­sic Ain­tree cir­cuit.  It’s a relaxed, soci­able and efficient event.

I always thought TVR’s finest moment was the Cer­bera — a com­bin­a­tion of clas­sic low-rider looks, power, and noise.  Still handled badly, but that can largely be sorted out.

It was great to see every­one at the event.  Hopefully […]

Almost worth it for the ooh-la-la.

Sorry David Coulthard, but when I saw this:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7191512.stm
I saw red.  I mean, apart from some of his aston­ish­ingly pat­ron­ising com­ments dir­ec­ted towards younger drivers, he did noth­ing but con­firm that his F1 career has been a long period of jour­ney­man mis­takes.
His abil­ity to spin off dur­ing warm up laps was once some­thing quite spe­cial in F1.  Of […]

I don’t often men­tion other sites, but that’s more because I’m lazy and don’t do my research, rather than any intent to ignore.
But I can’t ignore Gary Thomas’s new sprint and hillclimb photo site. He takes some crack­ing pic­tures of the sprint scene and shows them off at his photo site yourftd.com where you can […]

A bit slow put­ting this one up, but it needs doing!
It was an unusual day for me, in part, because I’d not really expec­ted to be com­pet­ing! I’d really given up on this sea­son — with a short­age of funds and time while I con­tinue get­ting my busi­ness on its feet (it’s at http://www.interconnectit.com visit […]

If you’re in Bri­tain you’ll already be aware that for the past few weeks we’ve been get­ting rain of near bib­lical pro­por­tions, with floods caus­ing a lot of dam­age in the Mid­lands, and just a lot of heavy rain in the rest of the coun­try.
Ain­tree wasn’t much dif­fer­ent, though not quite so bad as last September […]

Yes, this really is my first event of the year! It won’t be my last, but sadly busi­ness and fin­ances have to take a pri­or­ity and it’s unlikely I’ll be doing much sprint­ing this sea­son. I’ll do the odd track-day, how­ever, to keep my eye in.
And it didn’t really go well — at a […]

Some­times you record a great hillclimb run (this one up Loton Park) only to find a tech­nical glitch has spoilt the record­ing. So if that’s the case, you must improvise.…