Tag Archives: Sprints

Sprinting with Javelin

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

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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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