Bristol Motor Club

Committee Digest: August 2019

Website Overhaul We discussed how we’d like to overhaul the website. We’ve made changes in the last few months to the layout and the way we present information on the website. Posts to the website are [click. . .]

2019 Bristol Speed Championship: Round 3 Results

After 3 of 5 rounds, Matthew Bennett has broken the unlimited Roadgoing class record twice to take the lead in the Bristol Speed Championship and also win the King of Combe trophy. Dave Greenslade lies second in the [click. . .]

2019 Autumn Westonzoyland AutoSolo Entries Open!

Dave Greenslade winning the 2019 Spring Autosolo

Our second AutoSolo of the year is again at Westonzoyland Airfield, near Bridgwater on Sunday 15th September. It’s open to all roadgoing vehicles and is a round of the Vincenzo & Sons Bristol MX5 [click. . .]

On This Day: 18th July 1965

We ran our first ever 3 lap sprint at Castle Combe Circuit on this day in 1965. The event was stopped early due to some local residents who objected and the future of the circuit was in jeopardy. Two of our members [click. . .]

Committee Digest: July 2019

Club Displays We had the club gazebo on the Chipping Sodbury Classic Run held by the Rotary Club. A few members attended and enjoyed themselves. We also ran a small display at Heathfest. We had poor attendance [click. . .]

2019 Dick Mayo Sprint: Entry List & Final Instructions

Marshals Required: Dick Mayo Sprint The Dick Mayo Sprint is upon us! Next week, we’ll be at Castle Combe all weekend for the Dick Mayo Sprint (Saturday 27th July) and the Classic & Performance Parade (Sunday [click. . .]

Event Filming: The Plan

You may have seen some of the amazing footage Hillclimb.tv has been producing recently and also some of the videos we’ve compiled of recent events. We’ve wanted to step this up for a while. In fact, [click. . .]

Marshals Required: Dick Mayo Sprint

The Bristol Motor Club Dick Mayo Sprint takes place at Castle Combe on Saturday 27th July 2019. To enable this event to run safely and smoothly we need 40+ Marshals for circuit posts, paddock and start line duties. No [click. . .]

Committee Digest: June 2019

Westonzoyland Percentage delta to leader

AutoSolo Times Westonzoyland AutoSolo Percentage delta to leader This month, we discussed past and future events as we always do. Our recent AutoSolo had brilliant feedback, but one thing raised by the organising team [click. . .]

2020 Bristol Two Litre Cup

For 2020, we are announcing a new championship; the Bristol Two Litre Cup! The championship is designed to allow most normally aspirated cars of up to two litres to compete. All cars will run in a road-legal [click. . .]

Committee Digest: May 2019

This is new, I hear you say. I know, the committee have been talking, as only committees do, and decided to share some of what’s on our minds and that gets discussed when we meet the Monday after every Tuesday Club [click. . .]

2019 Spring AutoSolo Results

Dave Greenslade winning the 2019 Spring Autosolo We hope you had an enjoyable day on Sunday. Dave Greenslade was the one who took the biggest trophy home, but there were lots of big grins leaving the event! Many [click. . .]

2019 Bristol Speed Championship: Llandow Results

After two rounds of the Bristol Speed Championship, Dave Greenslade leads from James Hurford and Matthew Bennett. Pekka Tulokas took top honours at Llandow. All drivers who enter one of the 5 rounds under the name of [click. . .]

2019 Llandow Sprint Results

Pekka Tulokas breaking the class record at Llandow 2019

Thanks to everyone who competed and helped at this year’s Bristol Llandow Sprint. The event was full with 110 entries on the day. Despite some accidents in the afternoon it appeared that a good time was had by all in [click. . .]

2019 Dick Mayo Sprint Entries Open!

Entries are now being accepted for the 2019 Dick Mayo Sprint! Supplementary Regulations (please do read them so you can enter the right class) Online entry form At three-quarters of a lap of the circuit it is shorter [click. . .]

On This Day in 1964: Dyrham Park Hillclimb

During the 1960s, we ran hillclimbs up the drive at Dyrham Park, the National Trust venue off the A46. On 9th May 1964, we ran a closed to club event in addition to our restricted meeting in July and the British [click. . .]

Bristol Motor Club at Heathfest 2019

An intimate display of vehicles in the park at Heathfest. Classic, performance and racing cars. It’s a show in Bromley Heath, near the ring road between Frenchay and Emerson’s Green on the first Saturday of [click. . .]

2019 Llandow Sprint Final Instructions & Entry List

Here are Final Instructions and the Entry List for the 2019 Bristol Llandow Sprint, co-promoted by Bristol Pegasus Motor Club and Bristol Motor Club. No further entries can be accepted, but the Supplementary Regulations [click. . .]

On This Day in 1948: Naish Hillclimb Resurfacing

The cover of the June 1948 journal of Bristol Motor Club

Back in 1948, the war had just ended and the club was thriving. The club was looking for venues to run events and over the next few years would run speed events and circuit races on the sea front at Weston-Super-Mare, [click. . .]

Three Shires Stages 2019

Cheltenham Motor Club is pleased to announce the Three Shires Stages 2019. The proposed event is to be run mainly on closed public roads within Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire and will take place on [click. . .]

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