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Features VVV visit Mclaren for the launch of the MP4-12C

It's amazing how things can come out of the blue, Wednesday saw the launch of Codemasters F1 while today in appropriate mood I'm visiting Mclaren for the launch of their new high speed production sports car. Arriving on a beautiful spring morning, what better time would there be to see this fantastic facility, the Mclaren […]

Features Racing Games that shaped a decade

10 years have flown by but with them we've seen some fantastic evolution in the racing sector, and this period represents an era where home consoles have finally been able to do the genre justice. Looking back on personal experience, the hardware available1980's was incredibly limiting but it was a time when we simply didn't […]

Features Beat the Heat: Are you faster than the cops?

Last Thursday VVV Gamer were invited to The Fuzz & The Furious, an event set at Santa Pod Drag Strip where members of the public were given the opportunity to race against the US Police Force in the form of Lt Tom Brown, while also supporting the launch of Fast & Furious on DVD and […]

Features A Silverstone Pillion Ride Experience

Being a journalist gives some wonderful experiences many will never have the opportunity to see or do, one of those is being thrown round Silverstone pillion in the back of an Yamaha R1 Superbike. The location would be the newly revamped Stowe circuit, this is situated within the south part of Silverstone while surrounded by […]

Features Discovering a Passion for Biking: Part 1

Thinking back, I remember a parents’ evening when I was 11 years old (Year 7, to be precise) – a teacher asked me what I wanted to be when I was older, and I said I wanted to race superbikes. My teacher and mum both laughed it off and that was the end of that […]

Features VVV visits Britstol Italian Auto Festival

April 24th saw part of Bristol’s city centre roads closed to make way for hundreds of Italian vehicles. It was a warm sunny day, and the area was absolutely packed with car fans, with the street lined with a selection of Ferrari’s and Maserati’s almost impassible. Down some quieter side streets, selections of rare Italian […]

Features Preparing to Enter the Racing World

So here I am, now fully decided that I will be racing a full-ish season in 2010 with God’s Grace. Racing in the rookie 600 Open class (which, in a nutshell is a class where everyone is on 600cc Supersports motorbikes such Yamaha R6, Suzuki GSXR’s, Kawasaki Ninjas, etc) and everyone is in their first season […]

Features Dscovering a Passion for Biking: Part 2

Continued from Discovering A Passion For Biking: Part 1 To get an ACU license first, though, you have to join a racing club, with biggest UK racing clubs are BMCRC, New Era or Thundersport GB. I found out that BMCRC (otherwise known as “Bemsee”) were holding an open day in December at Brands Hatch, where you could get […]

Features Formula One 2010: Season Preview

It’s been 4 weeks since our last F1 Round Up, and in that time I’ve had a good look at the new teams and their potential for the season ahead. Rather than report each launch, we’re taking a wider look at the teams and their progress in order to provide you with a general overview. With anticipation […]

Features F1 2009 Season Review

As I embark on writing about this season, it scares me just how much has taken place – it’s been an epic year for the sport! There have been mixes covering every aspect and, to coin a phrase from the great man Murray Walker himself,“anything can happen in Formula 1, and it usually does!”. Wise words indeed, […]

Features VVV attends the UK Forza Launch Party

The wait has been agony, but we’re now at the final countdown to the launch of Forza Motorsport 3. You’ve read our extensive coverage, you’ve seen our youtube videos and with more to come in the form of guides and ongoing activity, there’s lots to look forward to. So, as we prepare and the factories get […]

Features VVV’s First 5 Days of Forza 3

Though they offer us gamers a means of finding out what a game is like, a review is only a small part of the story – often the journey is in discovering what it’s like for yourself. As I write my Forza Motorsport 3 review, I thought I would take the time to share my […]

Features VVV attends Trax 2009

If Silverstone isn’t called a windy circuit, it certainly should be! That said, it always has bags of atmosphere and character, soand was the perfect example for perhaps the UK’s No.1 event for car modding fans, ‘Trax’. For those who are new to the automotive world, Trax is one of the major family car events of the UK calendar. […]

Features Needing More Speed

The Need for Speed first released the 3DO console is still fondly remembered by many who played it as one of the greatest driving experiences ever offered by a console format. Now 14 years after this original release we see the latest vision of this franchise success story. So how has it changed in its […]

Features ‘The Year of the Racer’: E3 2009 Report

The Electronic Entertainment Expo E2009 has drawn to a close, and now we can finally see the line-up of titles we’ll be playing well into 2010. This year really is the greatest selection of racing titles ever witnessed and it’s good to see the genre getting the support it deserves after a few years where […]

Features A philosophical first look at WRC

When we first heard the announcement Black Bean would be bringing the WRC license back to life it was met with a somewhat mixed reception. Did they have the financial power to build a product that effectively captured such an expansive sport? That’s a question I’ll leave to the review but one thing is for […]