There are puddles inside the pit garage and water is seeping through my racing pixie boots as I wait to post myself through the complicated lattice of roll cage and into the waiting Clio Cup race car.

To Cup or not to Cup? Renaultsport offers its Clio with or without the hardcore chassis option fitted to our long-termer, so I booked in a standard Clio 200 for a 1000-mile comparison.

More torque, less weight and a better chassis, that's what the new Clio Cup race car promises. Unlike the road going Clio RS which went on sale this spring, the fourth-generation race car won't ...

the Renault Clio Cup has provided fantastic one-make racing across Europe. It even used Sport Spiders over here, in an odd deviation for a few years. In Britain it has proved a great stepping ...

The 20-year-old, from Little Plumstead near Norwich, has won Great Britain's Clio Cup Championship with five race wins, the most of any competitor. Taylor's name joins Mini Challenge champion and ...

But a still heady 5,400rpm means this version retains the Clio 197’s unique appetite for revs. We tested the Cup chassis, which has a firmer set-up than the Sport. It is stripped of kit ...

We need to try it on the road to be sure Piling into the first corner, bouncing over the high-kerbed apex and then squirming on the brakes for a left-hander, it’s hard to tell if the new Clio ...