Tag Archives: Hill Climbs

2020 Speed events [My season]

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

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Speed Sports with MSUK

MotorSport 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

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Speed – a UK grassroots Motorsport discipline

What 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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What exactly is Grassroots Motorsport?

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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