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19/02/10

As for the Goblin Racing cars things have moved forward in that the gearbox has been changed, changing the diff from a quaife to plate diff to aid traction out of the corners and in affect replacing the one Martyn destroyed at the start of 2009. This should help improve laptimes for Barrie.

The Beetle has been tuned on Storm Developments rolling road and this is going to be followed up by a session at Superchips to check the power before the official rolling road session for the championship at the end of March.

Then both cars will have their pre season checks and be setup for the first race at Oulton Park including the changing of any championship stickers that need to be replaced on the cars.

Its not long till the first race of the year so it is full steam ahead to make sure both cars on on the grid Easter weekend.

19/02/10

Following the success in the Birkett Relay race in 2009 Goblin Racing will be making an attack on the teams championship in the volkswagen racing cup joining forces with Fast and Furious Motorsport to form Adrenalin Motorsport. Drivers will be Goblin Racing pairing of Martyn and Barrie Culley and Fast and Furious Motorsport pairing of Paul Taylor and Darren Blumson. In addition the team will be joined by new driver Tony Taylor who is making his first appearance in the championship in a Golf VR6.

25/01/10

2010 hopefully brings an exciting year of racing. We are doing everything to ensure we have both cars racing at each meeting this year. In fact Barrie has really started preparation early.

Both Barrie and Martyn went to this year's AutoSport Show in Birmingham, whilst visiting one of our sponsors stands, KW Suspensions, Barrie took the opportunity to get in some practice by jumping on their driving simulators. You'll have to ask him how he got on...

6/12/09

The VW Racing Cup is celebrating 10 years in style. A new sponsor and it's first ever overseas race meeting at Zandvoort in the Netherlands.

The new sponsor is Fuchs Lubricants the world's largest independent lubricant manufacturer, which plans to use its association with the championship as a platform for increasing awareness of Titan, the company's superior range of automotive lubricants.

Provisional Race Calender 2010

03-05 Apr Oulton Park

21/22 May Zandvoort, Netherlands

03/04 Jul Snetterton

17/18 Jul Rockingham

14/15 Aug Silverstone GP

25/26 Sep Brands Hatch GP

16/17 Oct Donington Park

Click here to visit the VW Racing website and read more...

16/11/09

Check out the Results page and see how “Team Volkswagen ‘Boys R Back’” got on at Silverstone, Read more...

17/10/09

Saturday 24th October 2009 is the historic Birkett 6 hour relay race held at Silverstone race circuit. Barrie and Martyn with further VW racers Paul Taylor, Darren Blumson and Tony Harbermann are entering as “Team Volkswagen ‘Boys R Back’”, a play on the fact that Paul, Darren, Martyn and Barrie all previously raced with “750 Motor Club” who are hosting the event. We also have a non VW racer in the team Tony Taylor, Paul’s dad, in a Toyota MR2.

There are 55 teams, each with a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 6 cars and drivers. It is a relay race with only one car from each team on the circuit at any one time. The handover is achieved by the car coming in from the circuit having to pass the team’s pit garage in the pit lane before the next car can go out onto the circuit.

With such a large number of cars it is obvious that there are also a wide variety of cars, too many to mention individually. A flavour of the type of machinery there will be: Morgan’s, Westfield’s, Caterham’s, Radical Clubsports, BMWs V8 GTR and M3s, Fisher Fury, Ginetta, Porsche, Mallocks, Sprites, Midgets, Jaguar XKs and XJs, Tigers and lots of others I have never even heard of before.

To cater for the range of cars competing and their different levels of performance, the race is run on a handicap basis to try and even everything out. This is very complicated and I could not even attempt to explain it here, especially as I don’t understand it myself. We leave that to the handicappers.

It should be a hectic but fun race which we are all looking forward to as the closing event to our 2009 racing year.

Come back and visit our site to see how we got on.

23/08/09

This weekend coming sees the final 2 races of the season. Both the Vento and the Beetle are primed and ready and will be racing at Brands Hatch. If you're coming to the meeting, why not pop round and see us in the pits, we'll show you round the cars.

23/08/09

Both cars hit the Silverstone Circuit last weekend, with Martyn having one of his best race weekends for a while. Visit the Results page to see how he got on.

12/08/09

This weekend sees the Silverstone meeting kick off. For the first time this season we will have both cars racing. It will be the Beetle's first outing.

Qualifying starts on Saturday at 11:20 with Race 1 at 16:10. Race 2 is on Sunday and gets under way at 12:25.

Snooker Star Ronnie O'Sullivan is due to race in the VW Racing Jetta.

Why not follow the live timings all weekend. Click here for more details.

11/07/09

Volkswagen Racing on TV - The recent races at Rockingham are due to be shown on Motors TV shortly. The schedule is

Motors TV is available on Virgin Channel 545 or Sky Channel 413. 

Several races are coming up, Snetterton, the re-scheduled Donington meeting and Silverstone. Barrie will be entering the Vento at Snetterton whilst Martyn takes a break to raise funds to get his Beetle RSi back on the track. We hope to be racing both cars at Silverstone but unfortunately neither car will be at Donington.

12/06/09

Unfortunately Goblin Racing will not be racing at Knockhill. The next time the cars grace the track will be at Snetterton in July, when hopefully both cars will be racing.

05/06/09

Again a set of mixed results from the Rockingham Race meeting. Martyn finished 9th in the first race and a disappointing 12th in the second race, Click here to visit the results page and view the results and reports.

28/05/09

The Beetle is proving to be a tricky little car to get on the track this year. It just isn't performing as we would want it to. In light of this we've decided that we won't put the car on the track until we can ensure it's going to be competitive. So Martyn will be racing the Vento whilst Dad sits and watches until the day this bug is ready to burn rubber once again.

29/04/09

Volkswagen Racing on TV - The recent races at Oulton Park are due to be shown on Motors TV shortly. The schedule is

Motors TV is available on Virgin Channel 545 or Sky Channel 413. 

15/04/09

Donington Race Meeting postponed. Problems with some earthworks and obtaining race licences has meant the postponement of this meeting. More information will follow shortly. Visit www.crash.net for more information.

14/04/09

A mixed set of results in the first 2 races of the season at Oulton Park this weekend. Martyn had a good qualifying session finishing 3rd, and finally ended up 6th in the first race giving him Pole position for the second race. Unfortunately he was unable to finish the race due to mechanical failure. More details will follow shortly. See Results page

11/04/09

Martyn puts the Vento on the second row for Monday's first race, finishing in 3rd spot in today's qualifying. Martyn came in with a time 1:57:91 just over a second behind Pole Winner, Liam Griffin in the Scirocco 2.0 TSI GT. In second place was James Walker in the Mk V Golf 2.0 Gti.

Click here for more details

08/04/09

This weekend sees the start of the new season and unfortunately there will definitely be only one car racing at Oulton Park. Martin will be driving the Vento as Barrie stuffs his face full of Easter Eggs and apparently Fruit Cake.

If you are at Oulton Park this weekend why not pop over to the pits and see Barrie and Martyn and get an insiders view on VW Racing.

The race is on, the season starts on the 11th April and Martyn foot is still broken, but well on the mend, but will he be ready.

Martyn sustained a broken foot when he decided that dropping an engine hoist on it would be a good idea. How wrong he was.

The foot is now out of plaster and he's off the crutches and limping his way around, but he's pretty sure that come qualifying time he be on the grid. 

30/03/09

The season starts with only one car racing. Unfortunately due to technical difficulties the Beetle won't be starting at Oulton Park. Martyn will be driving his Dad's Vento whilst Barrie takes a back seat.

Barrie and Martyn will be working hard to ensure both cars will be ready for the Donington Park meeting.

30/03/09 

Goblin Racing are pleased to announce the launch of their new website. We apologise to regular readers of our previous site for not keeping it updated since 2007.

The site created by ITsECPC will be regularly updated with latest news about the team, the cars, the drivers, and the VW Racing Cup. Suggestions for additinal ideas would always be welcome.