Catalogue
Those present at the Classic Marques prize giving dinner in autumn 2024 might recall – if still sober when the raffle results were announced – that the star raffle prize was a space at the new Mallory Park Sprint School. Well, to my amazement and pleasure, I held the correct ticket drawn out of the hat and the space was
Read more
Introduction Ever since I started seriously driving in trackdays which led to competing in sprints and then hill climbs, I have yearned for ways to evaluate my performance; one way is to time the laps that you do. But the rules at trackdays are quite clear; timing is not allowed by you in your car or by anyone for you
Read more
Well, it’s certainly been an odd year – mainly due to the effect of Covid-19. As in previous years I had planned a full season’s sprint and hill climbs events and many ‘special’ events too – taking in five different championships and with visits to the inaugural IOWMC Sprint at Sandown, the Brighton Speed Trials and possibly the Bouley Bay
Read more
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
Read more
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 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.
Read more
Grass Roots Motor Sport - UK 