Tiffany Chittenden races for Abarth UK – Make It Your Race UK Driver Coach
Tiffany Chittenden, the Make It Your Race team UK driver coach, had the opportunity to race one of the ‘small and wicked’ Abarth 500 Assetto Corse racing cars at the famous Dijon racing circuit in France. Following a strong practice and qualifying Tiff suffered a mechanical ‘glitch’ which prevented her getting on the podium. “It’s [...]
Make It Your Race 2013 powered by Abarth
If you think you have what it takes to be a racing driver enter Make It Your Race 2013 now Following the huge success of Make It Your Race 2012 when James Brazier got through to the final and made his dream of racing come true when he drove a race prepared Abarth 500 Assetto [...]
Alonso & Massa test the Abarth
Formula 1 drivers Fernando Alonso and Filipe Massa test the Abarth 500c Seeing the Abarth 500 on a race track is always exciting but to see Scuderia Ferrari F1 drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, testing the Abarth 500C prior to it’s North American debut at the 2012 Los Angeles Auto Show is very special [...]
McLaren’s Sebring winning Abarth
The Ex-Bruce McLaren Briggs Cunningham Team Sebring 3-Hours winning 1961 Fiat-Abarth 1000 Bialbero Competition Coupe sold by Bonhams Sebring is, without doubt, one of the iconic venues on the motor racing calendar – legends are made and legends race there… and Abarth is very much a part of it’s racing history and with the Sebring [...]
Abarth at Race Retro 2013 – [Update: Gallery!]
Abarth 595 Competizione, Abarth Punto EVO Supersport and Abarth 500 Assetto Corse join classic Abarth cars on display at Race Retro 2013 [Update: Gallery!] Race Retro, the historic motorsport show, opens it’s doors for three days of classic and historic motorsport 22-24th February at Stoneleigh Park near Coventry. Motorsport is in Abarth’s blood and it [...]
Abarth Racing 2013
Abarth racing events calendar 2013 For 2013 the Abarth Trophy is back; giving the opportunity to many drivers, young and old, the opportunity to race at the most beautiful and challenging race tracks in Italy and Europe aboard an Abarth 500 Assetto Corse for racing or Abarth 500 R3T for rally. The Abarth Trofeo will [...]
Abarth & Monte Carlo Rally – update
Abarth racing and rallying heritage and the Monte Carlo Rally Abarth racing achievements are well recognised but many will remember the Abarth involvement in rallying with the Abarth Fiat 124 (finished 2nd in the 43ème Rallye Automobile de Monte-Carlo; 15 to 23 January 1975 – Hannu Mikkola/Jean Todt – Fiat Abarth 124 Rallye), Abarth Fiat [...]
Racing Abarths in Classic & Sports Car
Radbourne Racing and Abarth featured in January edition of Classic & Sports Car magazine £595 for a 595 Abarth! This was the price you would have paid in the early days of Abarth’s UK agent back in the 60s – Abarth cars were sold, tuning done and built under license by Radbourne Racing from their [...]
ABARTH Racing… it’s in the blood!
Autosport International will be here soon and we’re beginning to miss the race track action… Autosport International – The Racing Car Show is traditionally the ‘opener’ to the racing season and for all Abarth and racing fans who might have forgotten the buzz of a race paddock… or what a sunny blue sky looks like(?) [...]
Abarth rally engineering – the EXPERIMENTAL COMPOSITE VEHICLE
ABARTH LANCIA DELTA ECV EVO 87 – How Abarth engineers created one of the most advanced rally cars for the Group B era The ECV1 website tells the history and restoration of the unique Lancia DELTA ECV1 prototype. This vehicle was equipped with an innovative patented engine named “TRIFLUX” and built on a modified Delta [...]
Abarth Racing – 2012 Season Review
Abarth Racing and Rallying! It’s been a superb year of Abarth motor racing and rallying with the Trofeo Abarth 500, Abarth 500 Rally and Formula Abarth continuing to thrill the fans across Europe and the Abarth Punto Competizione series being a huge success in Argentina. Here in the UK, Sarah Franklin became the Class B Champion in [...]
