The Oscars of the automotive industry, AM (Automotive Magazine) Awards are being held again this February and Q8Oils are the sponsor for the headline award – Retailer of the Year.

The awards ceremony is a spectacular event and has become the benchmark by which the automotive industry judges itself.

This winter Q8Oils has launched its latest Pitstop Promotion to offer customers 15 litres of Antifreeze when they buy 100 litres of Gear Oil, to help keep drivers safe in the winter weather.

The Q8Oils long life, fuel economy Gear Oil is recommended for passenger and commercial vehicles, and protects against rust and gear wear, while the antifreeze is a universal engine coolant, perfect for keeping cool...

Q8Oils launches new 20 litre plastic drum

The innovative packaging will provide both commercial and environmental benefits as the smaller unit will allow for more efficient and effective transportation and storage that will allow customers to make the most of their facilities.

Formula 2 Sidecar team Nick Crowe Racing/Team Dave Hudspeth Carpets/Q8Oils are pleased to announce their new line up for the 2012 season. Three times World Champion and current Formula 1 British Champion Tim Reeves (Lisburn-Ireland) will be the team’s new driver with regular team passenger Dipash Chauhan (Gowdall –Yorkshire), who is now back to full fitness after a badly broken leg sustained earlier in the season.

The new line up was announced at last weekend’s Festival of sidecars at Mallory Park in Leicestershire. The team competed for the first time and won all three formula 2 races in near lap record time despite damp track conditions. This was the first time Tim had driven the machine, which was set up by Nick Crowe. They also won the Tony...

Please find below our last order dates and opening hours for Christmas & New Year 2011:

Last Day for Ordering Long Lead-time Products - 2pm 30th November 2011

Last Day for Large Stock Orders

(Same product, same packsize over 1pallet of 25/20ltrs & 5 pallets or over of 208ltrs) -4pm 7th December 2011

Last Day for ordering Bulk Product & guaranteeing before Xmas delivery or collection - 4pm 14th December 2011

Last Day for ordering packed stocked items - 2pm 16th December 2011

Last Day for Export Orders - 2pm 2nd December 2011

Last Day for Customer Collections (Must be booked in on 0113 236 5204) - 2.15pm 23rd December 2011

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Quay Garage Tyco Honda rider Patric Muff finished fourth in the BSB Evo championship in his rookie season of racing in the British series.

Muff had the best weekend of his year, finishing third in Sunday’s first race and fourth in the other two races of the triple-header meeting at Brands Hatch that concluded the series.

The highlight of Sunday’s first race, which was held in very testing damp conditions with a very narrow dry racing line, was also finishing 11th overall among the fully-tuned BSB bikes – his best finish all year.

Muff said: “I’m really happy with this weekend. We had already raced on the Brands GP circuit so we had a good base setting with the bike to start the weekend and I felt confident we could do some good races.”

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These awards differ from other industry awards in that they recognise the manufacturing achievements rather than end products. The awards highlight success in all areas of the manufacturing process including new product development, category management, quality assurance, supply chain improvement, environmental management, process...

Peter Hickman might have missed making the cut to be part of this year’s six-rider Showdown for the BSB title, but his continued development showed as he battled with five of the championship ‘title fighters’ in the second Silverstone race on Sunday.

Hickman was strong all weekend on the Quay Garage Tyco Honda, qualifying on the second row. He crashed out of race one but showed great determination to pick the bike up after the 120mph crash and tried to continue racing.

 

Race two, carrying a shoulder injury from the crash, Hickman rode one of his best races of the year, battling with five of the championship contenders plus factory Suzuki rider Jon Kirkham to finish an inspired seventh.

Hickman said: “It was probably good for everyone to watch...

Peter Hickman was impressive throughout the weekend as BSB returned to Donington Park for the 10th round of the championship.He qualified the Quay Garage Honda fourth on the grid and was running with the leaders in fifth place in the early stages of the race but at mid-distance he started to drop back with a tyre problem.

Hickman said: “The tyre spun on the rim on the tenth lap. It wasn’t just a little bit out but a full 180 degrees so the tyre was suddenly completely out of balance. It made the bike vibrate badly and gave really terrible chatter so it was very difficult to get the bike stopped on the brakes and into corners.”

From trackside it was obvious Hickman had a problem as his lap times dropped from consistent mid 1:30s – the same pace at the leaders)...