BTCC or the WTCC?

Without question, these are two of the best touring car series on the planet - nothing else even comes close. So how do you choose between the two?

I am fortunate enough to watch both of these series, and must say it is very close. There is plenty of action to be had in both series, lots of good old-fashioned proper racing, very unlike anything you see in the likes of F1 and so forth.

Even the cars are similar, with cars such as the BMW 320si E90, Chevrolet Cruze, Chevrolet Lacetti and SEAT Leon featuring in both series. There is the Ford Focus which doesn't feature in the WTCC, and the Vauxhall's, but apart from these odd examples, most of the machinery is very similar. The laptimes set are very similar - something which can be easily seen with Brands Hatch.

The drivers then must be the deciding factor. Yet even these come in similar shapes and sizes. Drivers from both series are no-nonsense, hard touring-car drivers.

The BTCC may have less in terms of bureaucracy, but the WTCC has the variety of circuits.

Have you tried deciding? Perhaps the ultimate answer is not to decide, but actually to watch both. Which is probably most people do anyway, so apologies for wasting your time.

F1 comes home - who will win?

Finally, the greatest of the great roll back to Britain for one of the nation's highhlights of the summer - the British Grand Prix.

It looks set to be a fantastic weekend, with the newly revamped Silverstone acting as host, as it has for a long time now. And indeed the crowd certainly seems to be behind the race too, with a record number of people of around 85,000 coming just to watch Friday practice.

Yes, you read that right - 85,000. Eighty-five thousand. For Friday practice.

That's dramatic in itself, and will hopefully set us up for the rest of the weekend.

Common sense is dead. Long live logic.

This is starting to peeve me off so much that I've decided to write about it, so apologies in advance if this sounds like a rant.

Common sense no longer appears to exist in today's society (certainly in Britain anyway). All we ever get are rules, rules, rules, which must be followed to the letter! Its beginning to drive me mad. Things like small speeding offences take on the significance of genocidal proportions, whilst boy-racers screaming through at 100mph along narrow country roads get away with it.

Don't get me wrong here - I love motor-racing, and I love speed. But it has no place on the public road. Driving there is about comfort, smoothness and to an extent safety. Yet the common sense which used to rule this country just doesn't exist any more, in any shape or form. We are told to obey the rules or else - common sense is just assumed, and unfortunately stupidity or blindness is in its place instead.

I honestly blame this on the information age. We have gone completely overboard - computers have shoved us into the form of unthinking robots with none of that vital human thing - the sixth sense, heart, emotion - common sense.

And this needs to change soon. Or we'll have 30mph speed limits on motorways soon enough, I'm telling you now.

Should we have a World Cup in Motorsports?

With the Football World Cup soon coming to a close, I thought this would perhaps be a relevant question to ask. I have always thought it a shame that the A1GP never really reached its full potential, and sometimes I do think more people would be interested in a sport that they could relate to more, and a World Cup in Motorsports would be a perfect solution to this.

Think about it - how many people do you know who gain a sudden interest in football come the World Cup? Why shouldn't the same happen for motorsports - all it needs is a bit of time. If it hadn't been for the financial crisis, I reckon the A1GP had the potential to really compete with F1, the WTCC and the like. Perhaps its what the sport needs most of all.