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[17th September 1929 to 12th April 2020] I wish to make my own personal tribute to one of the greatest motor racing sportsmen this country has produced. My links with Stirling are a little tenuous but they are my links and I am proud of them. Although I was born to a non-motoring family with no interest in motoring or
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The omens for my 2020 Speed season seemed good. From December 2019 onward, calendars for the various Sprint and Hill Climb meetings and their associated championships began to appear and by January 2020 I had a fairly good idea of what events I wanted to do with my Lotus Elise and what championships I were to run in. Although I
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Javelin Sprintdays Sprint events organised by Javelin are a fairly recent phenomenon. Javelin are a Trackday organising company that came into being at the turn of the millennium and after successfully building their Trackday business to become a leading player in Trackdays, Javelin’s first venture into sprinting was in 2007 with a series for Toyota manufactured vehicles. An ‘X’ class
Read moreMotorSport UK (MSUK) MSUK are the licensing authority for the majority of Speed Events organised in the UK and the affiliated Motor Clubs who organise them. The rules are applicable to both male and female entrants and motor racing is one of the few sports where gender is unimportant and competitors of both sexes compete on equal terms. Speed Events
Read moreAlthough the main thrust of Grassroots Motorsport UK Blog is about Grass Roots Motor Sport, I would like to share my experience of an Electric Car Forum. A question about electric cars in motorsport was also answered and so there is some relevance. The Forum was organised by EVision at the Holiday Inn, near Sevenoaks. EVision is a relatively new
Read moreWhat the Motorsport discipline of Speed is about Speed of course is a word frequently associated with Motorsport and conjures up images of high speed driving in all kinds of situations. However, in the UK it is also used to collectively describe the two Motorsport disciplines of Hillclimbing and Sprinting that are grouped together under the heading of ‘Speed’ Events.
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Well, you could say it involves just about any kind of sport that contains a motor where amateur drivers race or compete against each other. In the widest sense that might include cars, motorcycles, powerboats, lawnmowers etc [and it is also true that some professional drivers may start their motorsport career at grassroots level before moving into the mainstream]. However,
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