Motors TV Weekend Highlights

24/25 AugustLike a Motors TV equivalent of Glastonbury, the MX GP Festival features a weekend full of mud and noise from the English countryside. If camping doesn’t appeal to you there’s 14 hours of live action across Saturday and Sunday to watch from the comfort of your living room, with the MX1 and MX2 World Championship races acting as the headliners at the Matterley Basin event.After two road courses in the past couple of weeks the NASCAR Nationwide Series returns to its natural habitat of an oval for round 23 from Bristol Motor Speedway, which always provides a great spectacle with its distinctive stadium seating. Kyle Busch won March’s contest there and the form guide points towards another success for a Sprint Cup driver in the night race, which will be shown delayed-as-live.Back on this side of the Atlantic, there are highlights of the latest round of British Formula 3 from Brands Hatch. Last year’s series runner-up Jazeman Jaafar returned to the category to take on championship contenders Will Buller, Jordan King and Antonio Giovinazzi around the Grand Prix loop.There’s a double helping of one-make tin-top racing with back-to-back action from the Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup and Volkswagen Racing Cup UK. The former comes from the Nurburgring where rally legends Markku Alen and Juha Kankkunen were among those taking part, while the latter contested its penultimate round of the season at Brands Hatch.And for a more varied assortment of machinery try the Supercar Challenge at Assen. The entry list includes familiar GT equipment like the Ferrari 458 as well as open-cockpit Radicals and the slightly less exotic Renault Clio.

Saturday 24 August10:20 Supercar Challenge, Rd 5, Assen11:20 LIVE MX GP Festival12:40 Volkswagen Scirocco R-Cup, Rd 5, Nurburgring13:10 Volkswagen Racing Cup UK, Rd 6, Brands Hatch14:15 LIVE MX GP Festival19:30 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Rd 23, BristolSunday 25 August10:20 LIVE MX GP Festival12:00 LIVE FIM MX2 World Championship, Rd 17, Great Britain (Race 1)13:00 LIVE FIM MX1 World Championship, Rd 17, Great Britain (Race 1)14:00 LIVE MX GP Festival15:00 LIVE FIM MX2 World Championship, Rd 17, Great Britain (Race 2)16:00 LIVE FIM MX1 World Championship, Rd 17, Great Britain (Race 2)17:00 LIVE MX GP Festival18:55 British Formula 3, Rd 3, Brands HatchAll times are BST


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