DJ and presenter Chris Evans has been announced as the new presenter of an all new Top Gear, without Clarkson, Hammond and May. Filming starts soon. Perhaps he protested his disinterest too much? The BBC has announced that DJ, presenter, car collector and famed ginger, Chris Evans, is to be the new host of an […]
Chris Evans’ LaFerrari charity drives at Top Gear track (video)
Chris Evans is the owner of the first LaFerrari in the UK, and he’s used it to raise money for charity with £1,000 drives at the Top Gear test track. There are two sorts of car collectors in the world, those who buy rare and classic cars as investments that are kept locked away in […]
Has Chris Evans bought a McLaren F1?
The rumour on the grapevine this morning is that Radio 2 man and Ferrari nut, Chris Evans, has traded a Ferrari to buy a McLaren F1 [nggallery id=643 template=customlinks] Chris Evans is known for many things; Radio 2 presenter, doting dad, one-time enfant terrible of TV, creator of CarFest and, perhaps most of all, the […]
Chris Evans buys Dunlop Bridge from Donington
Radio 2 DJ and Ferrari nut Chris Evans has bought the Dunlop Bridge from Donington Park in a charity auction. When Chris Evans goes to an auction, he usually comes back with a trophy car from Maranello, such as the James Coburn Ferrari 250 GT SWB (or the Ferrari 250 GTO he bought privately through […]
Koenigsegg & Pagani heading for Chris Evans’ CarFest
With the first of Chris Evans’ CarFest extravaganzas kicking off this weekend, Supervettura are on the way with Koenigsegg and Pagani. This weekend sees the first of two petrolhead extravaganzas organised by Chris Evans for the benfit of Children in need kick off at Laverstoke Park Farm with CarFest South. Which means purveyors of supercars and providers of petrolhead fun are gathering their […]
Chris Evans CarFest: It’s all coming together
Chris Evans’ CarFest South & CarFest North are on track to deliver great weekends of petrolhead delight at Laverstoke Park Farm & Cholmondeley Castle. Listeners to Chris Evans’ Radio 2 Breakfast Show discovered Chris’s plans for his very own car festival – to benefit the BBC Children in Need Charity – when Chris was looking for a way […]
Top Gear Video: The Stig, Chris Evans & a 400bhp Black Cab
We’ve got video from the Top Gear team of The Stig taking Radio 2’s Chris Evans on a hair-raising ride in a 400bhp London Black Cab. It’s not difficult to work out when Top Gear has something to promote; they send us videos and stories. And with the Top Gear Live Show looming on the […]
Chris Evans’ Magnificent Seven Ferraris at Goodwood FoS
Chris Evans and the ‘Magnificent Seven’ Ferraris – raising money for BBC Children in Need – arrived at Goodwood Festival of Speed and ran the hillclimb. Every year the Ginger Ferrarista, otherwise known as DJ Chris Evans, relieves a number of comfortably-off people of ludicrous sums of money to drive a selection of glorious Ferraris. It’s all […]
Ferrari SA APERTA at Paris. Is Chris Evans buying?
Ferrari has unveiled the Ferrari SA APERTA – the 599 Roadster – at Paris today. And our spies tell us Chris Evans is busy speccing one up in Modena at the moment. Ferrari let us have info on the 599 Roadster which is the Ferrari SA APERTA last week, and today the very limited edition […]
Ferrari 250 GTO – the ‘Budget’ version
Historics at Brooklands are to auction a Ferrari 250 GTO replica – the 250 GTO Evocazione – which is expected to fetch around £240k. The last time we had a Ferrari 250 GTO in the news was when we broke the story that Chris Evans had acquired a Ferrari 250 GTO for an undiclosed price […]