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Designer, artist, and long-time Weltch Media collaborator, David Hopkins has offered a fresh insight into a major motorsport event half a century ago. The World Powerboat Championships were held in Cardiff Docks in 1975, and Dave has captured the event's thrills, dangers, and quirks in a guest post on our award-winning companion hyperlocal site, Rhiwbina Info . Dave was an art student at the time, and he focused on the championships for a design project over the summer of 197

Guest blog post by long-time friend of Weltch Media, TV motorsport commentator and announcer, Richard John Neil The end of each racing season usually means some uncertainty for us freelancers. However, I’ve found year-end work to be some of the most enjoyable that I get to do. My ITV work wrapped up at Brands Hatch at the beginning of October. It’s been a year of change within our wonderful team with Steve Rider retiring from presenting mid-campaign. Our script supervisor, Ma

The stylish 2025 livery of our friends Team Shelper Racing has now been turned into a National Hot Rod Blueprint and is available on...

There was disappointment for national hot rod racer Mark Shelper in yesterday's (Sunday 7 September) world championship qualifying round...

National hot rod racer Mark Shelper bounced back from a disappointing Sunday to gain a podium place in a thrilling finish at yesterday's...

The Weltch Media-backed RD Simsport simracing team had another successful night in this week's (Wednesday 26 February) penultimate round...

The Weltch Media-backed RD Simsport simracing team is now leading the Backfire Simsport TCR Challenge series. And the team's drivers are...

Huge congratulations to Weltch Media-backed RD Simsport, who took all three podium places in the latest round of the Backfire Simsport...

Congratulations to our friends at RD Simsport on another successful night in the latest event on the Backfire Simsport TCR Challenge...

Our Weltch Media-backed sim racers had another successful outing this week, with drivers from the RD Simsport teams taking first and...

The winners of the World Sports Photography Awards have been announced today (Thursday 9 January) and in our latest blog post we look at...

Weltch Media-backed RD Simsport racing is third in the team standings after an eventful opening round of the Backfire Simsport TCR Challenge this week (Wednesday 18 December) at Road America, USA. At one point, James's hard-charging drive prompted the commentator to say: "James Holman - what a legend!"For the RD Simsport II team, Daniel Mills had a pole, 2nd place and 4th place, Rob Sutherland had a DNF and a 27th (from 46th), Rob Jackson had a 28th and 28th (was 3rd in the a

The Weltch Media logo is back on the race track this week - we're supporting two three-car teams in the Backfire Simsport TCR Challenge...

As the 2024 speedway season ends in Britain, TV and radio presenter Jason Harrold has reflected on the state of the sport. In a special...

Our national hot rod racer Mark Shelper found his car spun around, ripping off the spoiler and ending his race at Aldershot yesterday...

Our latest piece of concept artwork imagines a 1970s car race that never happened - or at least not in the way we've portrayed it. The...

Our national hot rod racer Mark Shelper was back in action yesterday (Sunday 2 June) - and back in the results. Bristol-based Mark took...

Our national hot rod racer Mark Shelper suffered more bad luck in the latest world championship qualifying round at Hednesford Raceway...

Our national hot rod racer Mark Shelper returns to action next Monday (27 May) - and stars on the meeting poster! Mark's Peugeot 206cc...

It was a disappointing night for our national hot rod racer Mark Shelper at Ipswich last night (Saturday 16 March) in the latest world...