The Club is constantly searching for new speed event venues and has a good track record and the necessary expertise to develop new venues for motorsport events.43☄4′5″N 7☂5′14″E / 43.73472°N 7.42056☎ / 43.73472 7.42056 The popular kart circuit has Motorsport UK approval for car sprints, which are run anti-clockwise (whereas karts race clockwise) to improve the run-off areas.

The club’s annual sprint, complimenting two other sprints at the venue in early and late season, is run at the Clay Pigeon Raceway at Wardon Hill, Dorset, between Yeovil and Dorchester. The layout of the picturesque and historic venue gives spectators superb opportunities to be close to the action on the demanding hill climb, one of the few in the country that also host a round of the prestigious Motorsport UK National Hill Climb Championship. The club’s annual visit to Wiscombe Park, near Honiton, caters for both cars and motorcycles and is the Club’s flagship speed event. The club currently organises two speed events, the Wiscombe Park Hill Climb in May and the Clay Pigeon Sprint in July. The entries are split into classes so that similar cars compete for awards only against each other.Įach competitor has two practice and two timed runs over the course, with timing to hundredths of a second, using sophisticated timing equipment at the start and finish of the course.Īwards are usually presented for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and, occasionally, 4th in each Class, with the driver setting the quickest time overall receiving the Fastest Time of the Day (FTD) award. Vehicles can range from the evergreen 848cc BMC Mini and 875cc Hillman Imp all the way up to a full-blooded ‘Formula One style’ single-seater racing cars with engines producing 700 to 800 bhp. Events are held on private land or MOD airfields, and mainly on sealed or asphalt surfaces. Hill climbing and sprinting are very popular forms of clubman’s motorsport in Britain, and with good reason. Today there are many hill climb courses throughout the country. The first private hill climb course in the country was opened at Shelsley Walsh near Birmingham, in August 1905. As the hazards posed to drivers and spectators increased, more control and a higher degree of safety was required hill climbs moved off the public highways and onto private land.

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