Ever fancied your hand at car design but didn’t have the spare billions to stump up production and distribution facilities?  Well fear not, because Citroen’s now giving you the chance to design their DS3 – well, the roof and dashboard at least – and have it produced on DS3s next year.

The winning design will be chosen by a panel…

We are delighted to announce the results of our competition to attend the UK’s only round of the FIA GT1 World Championship as part of Silverstone’s Supercar Weekend (30 April – 2 May).

The votes have been counted, the correct entries sorted and 3 winners randomly selected to receive a pair of tickets to next weekend’s event.

So, without further…

Although this is not an exclusive SkiddMark competition (we’ll have more of those soon), it’s still a pretty good one. On June 15th – for one day only – you can lap the famous Top Gear track in Surrey in the latest, Nissan Z car.

Spend the day learning the fastest way around the 2 mile circuit and how…

It’s that time of the year again when Silverstone opens its doors for a new motorsport season, kicking off with the UK’s only round of the FIA GT Championships. Featuring the FIA GT1 World Championship, racing for the prestigious Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy, and the opening rounds of the FIA GT3 European Championship and GT4 European Cup there will…

Last week we launched our Christmas competition, in association with Spirit Level Films, Club GT and ROAD magazine. The competition is based on the cult film C’était un Rendezvous, with the stunning prize of a weekend in the Nissan GT-R to be won.

If you haven’t already done so, then head on over to our competition page and have a go, but we are also running a…

We’ve got two competitions to offer you this Christmas, the first on behalf of Spirit Level Film and Club GT and the second as part of our association with ROAD magazine.

Spirit Level Film are a boutique studio who acquire, distribute and produce films with one criteria… that they have to love them. That’s…

Porsche Cars GB are offering you the chance to test your expertise, matching the distinctive engine sound available in downloadable mp3 tracks with the correct 911.

All UK entrants will enter a prize draw for the chance to win an Evolution 911 driving experience at the Porsche Experience Centre, Silverstone. It’s a great prize but don’t take my…

Our competition to win a day out at Millbrook proving ground drivng the new Mk6 Golf GTI at its UK press launch was won by DR member Darren Mitchell. The following is his story, both of the track experience prize and the competition itself.

I would just like to start off by saying thank you all at DR for running…

With the British Touring Car Championship 2009 in full swing, Drivers Republic has teamed up with Millers Oils to offer one lucky
reader the chance to win a pair of tickets for the fourth round of the competition at Oulton Park in Cheshire on 30th and 31st May.

The winner will receive two corporate hospitality tickets for the practice…

Yesterday’s competition to guess the mystery car was merely a dry-run to today’s puzzler, which could reward your efforts with a pair of tickets to the opening round of the FIA GT Championship at Silverstone on 2/3rd May. This time we’ve raised the bar and you will need to guess ‘two’ cars correctly.

Track 1:

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Another interesting car has arrived in the office. Any ideas?

Post your suggestions below and the best (or correct) answer will win the accolade of ‘DR’s Nerd of the Week’.

Click the link below and listen to how it sounds.

The Golf GTi is such an institution that I’m sure everyone has an opinion on which version is their favourite. We’d like to know what you think and which version you prefer.

Post your vote below and If you have a story to tell then share it with the rest of us, we’d love to hear your anecdotes and experiences…

While we were at Silverstone yesterday, getting some lap times for the 911 Turbo, M6 and R8, we spied this thing on the access road to the Stowe circuit.

Click on the link to view a few more images in NEWS then tell us what you think it could be…

Chevrolet launches ‘Configurator’ for new Camaro.

Although it won’t be available in the UK, that doesn’t mean that we can’t admire Chevy’s brutal Camaro from a distance and, indeed, fantasise about what spec we’d take our SS in. Helping with the latter, but making the former far more painful, is the new ‘Build Your Own’ feature on the Camaro website.

Show us what you’d go…

We get weird and wonderful cars through the DR office quite often. But today something surprising has sparked child-like glee amongst the DR staff. And now we’d like you to identify the mystery car by listening to the sound file below. There are no prizes for guessing that it’s a V8, but we’ll send a small envelope full of DR…