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For events at 3 Sisters, see their Web site.
For events at Ty Croes, Anglesey, see their Web site.
For events at Oulton Park, see their Web site.
See also HRSR Web site. Imps take part in the HRSR aka Historic Touring Cars. We race saloon cars that were in series production before 1966. Cars can be developed in line with period modifications complying with HRSR Regulations. There is a separate class for cars under FIA appendix K Regulations. The result is always a crowd pleaser. With Minis and Imps taking on Cortinas, Mustangs and Falcons the racing is very exciting. HRSR was formed in 1984 and it recreates a bygone era. Real cars racing at classic circuits. No driver's aids for us. As the UK's best established and premier club for historic saloons, HRSR are allied to the Historic Sports Car Club and compete for the ByBox Historic Touring Car Championship. We view our sport as a competition with good manners, co-operation and a sense of fair play being paramount. If this sounds like your cup of tea why don't you join us for one at the HRSR tent at the end of every meeting.
Information about HRCR (Historic Rally Car Register) events is here.
Information about the MotorSport News Circuit Rally Championship is here.
For a full calendar of rallies in the UK (not just classic) see Ian Hardy's Web site. Also has loads of nice photos.
Silverstone Festival - 25-27th August.
See
https://www.silverstone.co.uk/events/silverstone-festival.
Scottish crew stunned to win Rally Barbados prize:
Scottish crew Mike Curry and Kevin MacIver are the winners of the
Rally to Barbados draw run in association with this year's Beatson's
Building Supplies Mull Rally (October 13-15) in the UK. The prize,
supported by Barbados Tourism Marketing Inc. covers entry to Rally
Barbados 2024 and the previous weekend's King of the Hill, inclusive
of return shipping for their historic Sunbeam Imp Sport from the UK to
Barbados.
They were stunned when their names were read out to a huge cheer from
fellow competitors at the prize giving in the island's capital
Tobermory, as they had already received awards for second in class and
best presented car. Curry says: "When the draw was announced as car 1
- 2 - 1, I went a bit faint and looked over to Kevin who was as
shocked as me. I started my driving in an Imp in the 1980s in the
lanes around Ripon and, if all goes to plan, will finish in an Imp in
Barbados in 2024."
Subject to final ratification by the Barbados Motoring Federation
(BMF), RB24, the Barbados Rally Club's (BRC) premier event, will run
from Friday, May 31 to Sunday, June 2, with The Rally Show and King of
the Hill (KotH), the final shake down and seeding event, on May 25 and
26. RB24 is the 34th edition of the Rally Club's premier event since
the first International All-Stage Rally in 1990.
A giant boarding card was presented by Clerk of the Course Richard
Crozier and Deputy CoC Sue Sanders, who has been a safety advisor to
Rally Barbados in the past. The winner was determined by a random draw
from all 2WD crews who had registered and were listed as official
finishers; after the iconic island rally's 17 special stages over
three challenging days, 40 of the 117 starters had retired.
The event played host to RB24 Rally Director Neil Barnard, who said:
"We had more than 70 crews sign up for the prize, which I admit was
more than I expected. Our promotion really generated some interest in
Barbados and the rally and we have had requests for event information
since we returned home - not just from competitors, but from marshalls
as well!"
Curry, a retired planning enforcement officer from Dumfriesshire in
south-western Scotland first rallied in 1983, initially in a Hillman
Imp, having marshalled on road rallies and forest events in Yorkshire,
including the RAC Rally, Britain's round of the World Rally
Championship. He has competed on the Mull Rally 10 times, first in
1986 in an Imp, then a fibre-glass Clan Crusader (a rear-engined
sports car based on the Imp), a Peugeot 205GTi and, since 2021, the
Sunbeam Imp Sport he will take to Barbados.
For nearly 20 years, he has also been a very active co-driver, particularly on events in Scotland and northern England; last year, he was British Historic Champion Cat 1 Co-Driver Champion, sitting in the legendary Bob Bean’s MkI Lotus Cortina.
Curry continued: "To say I was stunned when the wee Imp was drawn out
of the hat for the Rally Barbados entry would be an understatement! I
couldn’t believe that a lowly clubman running at the back of the field
in the smallest capacity (and oldest) car on the event could possibly
be going to grace the stages of Rally Barbados in 2024. We were so
shocked we all retired to the Mishnish restaurant after the
prize giving to look on Google maps to establish where Barbados
actually was!"
He found his current Imp in 2019. It had been in storage for 40 years
but had been built from a new shell with all the desirable Chrysler
Competition bits on it, including a 998cc engine supplied by former
Tour of Mull winner Alan Conley. Curry takes up the story: "The car
was in a sorry state, so I stripped it, started again with a bare
shell and a large pile of bits, which took nearly two years to
complete on my own. To be awarded Best Presented Car on this year's
Mull Rally brought tears to my eyes as it more than made up for the
hundreds of hours I have spent getting the car to where it is today."
While Curry hadn't intended to compete this year, with ever increasing
co-driving commitments, he decided to have one last drive and
recruited Tobermory born Kevin MacIver to co-drive, their first event
together: "Little did I know that Kevin is not only a top bloke, has
competed on Mull numerous times, but is a walking encyclopaedia of all
things Mull. The event went well and the only two issues the service
crew dealt with were to repair a map light that came loose and
re-align a windscreen washer jet!"
MacIver, who lives in Cruden Bay, Aberdeenshire, is Finance Director
of Aberdeen Football Club. His first rally was the 1986 Tour of Mull,
co-driving for his late father - by chance the same year Curry first
tackled the event - since when he has competed on the island 21 times,
as both driver and co-driver.
Rally Barbados is a tarmac rally with around 20 special stages run on
the island's intricate network of public roads, under road closure
orders granted by the Ministry of Transport, Works and Water
Resources; the previous Sunday's King of the Hill sprint, run under a
similar arrangement, features four timed runs on a roughly four
kilometre stage, the results of which are used to seed the running
order for the main event.
For media information only. No regulatory value.
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