Keith Phillips

Yorkshireman. Dad. Rider of motorcycles and cooker of roasts

[The English Remnant @Englishremnant]

An American soldier, Iraq 2005.

"Those Brits are a strange old race. They show affection by abusing each other, will think nothing of casually stopping in the middle of a firefight for a 'brewup' and eat food that I wouldn't give to a dying dog. But fuck me, I would rather have one British squaddie on side than an entire battalion of Spetznaz! Why? Because the British are the only people in this world who when the chips are down and it seems like there is no hope left, instead of getting sentimental or hysterical, will strap on their pack, charge their rifle, light up a smoke, and calmly and wryly grin, 'Well, are we going then you wanker?" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[🇬🇧 POPS-YOSH 34 🏁 ヨシムラ モリワキ @popsyosh34]

🇬🇧9️⃣9️⃣🏁

2003
Chris Burns, Leon Camier, Jeremy McWilliams
Chaz Davies

@McWill99

[🇬🇧 POPS-YOSH 34 🏁 ヨシムラ モリワキ @popsyosh34]

🇳🇿1️⃣4️⃣🏁 Aaron Slight 💚

[D A N N Y @Danny10_DotCom]

This year's 2AM talk.

Addison : "Why don't boxers have sex the night before a fight?"
GG : "Stop it,"
Addison : "Because they don't like each other very much."

Addison : ""If I try hard enough I could get us cancelled by 2AM."

#LeMans24 #WEC

[WRCPAST @WRCPAST]

🇺🇸 1988 Pikes Peak International Hillclimb

🇫🇮 Ari Vatanen - 🇫🇷 Peugeot 405 Turbo 16

In 1988, Finnish rally legend Ari Vatanen set a new course record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb, finishing with a time of 10:47.77. 

Driving a highly specialized, four-wheel-drive and four-wheel-steering Peugeot 405 Turbo 16, Vatanen's performance remains one of the most iconic moments in the history of the "Race to the Clouds.

The run was immortalized in a short documentary titled Climb Dance, directed by Jean-Louis Mourey. The film is renowned for its visceral cinematography, featuring unique camera angles—including shots mounted in front of and under the car—that captured Vatanen driving one-handed while shielding his eyes from the sun. 

The Peugeot 405 T16 was an engineering marvel for its era, producing over 600 horsepower. Its all-wheel-steering system was specifically designed to handle the tight, treacherous hairpins of the Pikes Peak course. 

The film Climb Dance went on to win several awards at film festivals, including the Grand Prix du Film at the 1990 Festival de Chamonix. It remains a cult classic among automotive enthusiasts and is often cited as one of the best pieces of motorsport footage ever captured. 

Bring back the gravel.

🎥 Climb Dance 👏🏻👏🏻

@OfficialWRC @PPIHC @peugeotsport

#cars #carporn #motorsport

[The Motorsport Hub @TheMSHub]

Maria Costello's sidecar passenger Shaun Parker is currently in Aintree hospital and is likely to be there for some time until he is well enough to return home from his injuries.

A go fund me page has been set up for Shaun and the family. 👇
https://t.co/RAlj9zs71p #motorsport

[Seul @SeulCotejardin]

TT

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

This past week, on a test bed in Britain, a Rolls-Royce jet engine ran at full take-off power on pure hydrogen, putting out water vapour instead of carbon.

Nobody on Earth had managed it before. It is the sort of thing that ought to stop the country in its tracks, and it will be forgotten by the weekend.

Leave aside the recent paroxysms of renewed net-zero insanity from Derelict Ed and the pervasive atmosphere of offended envy that greets much homegrown achievement nowadays in Britain. This engineering is a wonder, and it's British to the bone.

We gave the world the jet engine in the first place - Frank Whittle, a Coventry man and an RAF officer, patented it in 1930 while the Air Ministry assured him it was a curiosity. Rolls-Royce is today one of perhaps three firms anywhere that can build a large aero engine at the outer edge of the possible, and it has just done what most of the industry swore was twenty years away.

As usual, you marvel at how little the people who govern us had to do with it. The engineers in Derby are world-class; the stewardship above them is third-rate. They pulled off a global first while paying the most expensive industrial electricity in the developed world to keep the power on over the bench - a weight no German, American or Gulf rival has to carry. We produce frontier brilliance on the shop floor and fritter it away at the despatch box, and we have done for two generations.

That is the maddening shape of modern Britain: brilliance from below, sub- (or, indeed, ultra-) mediocrity from above. The people here who actually make things are still among the best in the world; the state that is meant to back them treats a firm like Rolls-Royce as a photocall today and a takeover target tomorrow, and prices its energy as though it would prefer the next plant were built in Texas.

Progress starts from the other end. Give these people what every rival government gives its champions and we beg ours to do without: the cheap, abundant power their competitors already enjoy, a supply chain built around them, and a state that guards a national asset rather than auctioning it. The hard part of a British revival - the talent, the nerve, the engineering - is already done, and was done again this week, by people who deserve a far better country than the one currently sitting above them.

We just taught an engine to breathe fire and exhale water. The least we owe the men and women who managed it is a government and a state as brilliant as they are.

[TNT Sports Bikes @bikesontnt]

NO WAY! 💥

HOW did Toprak save that?! 😳👏

#MotoGP #SpanishGP

[Craig Charles @CCfunkandsoul]

Earlier today I was informed of the passing of @realrobgrant .i am in total shock.He was one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. A visionary.
My heart goes out to his family and friends. The impact he and Doug had on the course of my life is immeasurable
RIP ROB

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

Robert Duvall has sadly passed away at the age of 95.

[Paul Miles @classicrider]

And I’m hearing Paul Sample has left the building, too. Now this really does saddens me. RIP maestro

[Sawyer Merritt @SawyerMerritt]

Ryanair CEO addresses his recent spat with Elon Musk in new press conference:

"The Starlink people believe that 90% of our passengers would happily pay for wifi access. Our experience is tells us less than 10% would pay; He (Elon) called me a r*tarted twat. He would have to join the back of a very very queue of people that already think I'm a r*tarded twat, including my four teenage children. But we do want to thank him for the wonderful boost in publicly. Our bookings are up 2-3% in the last few days. So thank you to Mr. Musk, but he's wrong on the fuel drag. Non European citizens cannot own a majority of European airlines, but if he wants to invest in Ryanair we think it would be a very good investment."

[Steve 🇺🇸 @SteveLovesAmmo]

Absolutely insane.

This guy jumped a gorge in Silvretta, Montafon.

[🎸 Rock History 🎸 @historyrock_]

Smooth criminal smooth cover

[Everything Moto Racing @everythingmrace]

Maybe one day we will see Kawasaki in MotoGP again…

Until then we can dream

#MotoGP

[WorldSBK @WorldSBK]

A chapter comes to an end 🔚

17 years later, we’re still in awe of that iconic
rain-soaked dance at Donington Park 🌧️ Thanks for all the unforgettable memories, @kiyonariryuichi! ✨🏁

#UKWorldSBK 🇬🇧

[MV33Racing🏎 @MV33Racing]

Throwback to 2015 when teenager Max Verstappen drove in the opposite direction at SPA 🇧🇪😎

[Mat Oxley @matoxley]

One of the greatest QP laps and one of the greatest quotes: Petrucci “I don’t understand why the track was dry for Marc and wet for the rest of us.” 😅👏😎

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

A behind-the-scenes gem: watching The Who record “Who Are You” is guaranteed to lift your mood.