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We've continued to support
smaller independent clubs and promotions possible, despite many clashes of dates
between the events we'd really have liked to cover, but
our 2023 travels have taken us to:
WATERFORD RACEWAY - back in
business at The Pike for their unique brand of Hot Rod racing,
now affiliated to Motorsport Ireland
TONGHAM MOTOR CLUB - now the only
remaining club running to SEGTO rules, but enjoying a full
season of very well supported meetings
THE ROLLING THUNDER SHOW -
steadily rebuilding support for its independent oval racing
scene at Norfolk's Swaffham Raceway
KENT OUTLAW OVAL RACING -
unfortunately date clashes mean we couldn't be at as many KOOR
meetings this year but we've been heading for Lydden whenever we
could.
STANDLAKE ARENA - the popular and
well-run independent Oxfordshire oval that features some
excellent budget non-contact classes alongside its well
supported Outlaw F2 class
THE MINI SEVEN RACING CLUB - our
first love in racing, still going strong after 57 years and
taking us to venues this year from Croft to Zandvoort.
We've also prioritised occasional other fun events such
as the East Cork Hot Rod Club's Watergrasshill Sprint,
although the weather thwarted our plan to return to Wexford
and the Ballymurn Hot Rod Club and instead enabled us to enjoy
some Irish circuit racing at Mondello Park.
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We're already approaching the
end of our 2023 season. There are three more events to go with
the Mini Seven Racing Club, at Croft, Silverstone and Brands
Hatch. One of our season highlights is coming up; the annual
Outlaw F2 Open at Standlake Arena on 25 September, this year
joined by the "gold roof" race for the V8 Stock Car Tour. Our
next Irish trip is not until 5 November, for the next round at
Waterford Raceway and in the meantime we'll get in as many more
events as we can at our regular venues, including Swaffham,
Lydden and Tongham.
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It's been
a busy summer and we're still finishing off our coverage of most
of the meetings we've done in the last couple of months. More
links should be appearing below as soon as we get a moment!
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Standlake Arena 3 December 2023 |
Waterford Raceway 26 November
2023 |
Standlake Arena 19 November 2023 |
Lydden 18 November 2023 |
Waterford Raceway 5 November 2023 |
Brands Hatch 28-29 October 2023 |
Tongham 22 October 2023 |
Silverstone 14-15 October 2023 |
Tongham 8 October 2023 |
Swaffham 30 September 2023 |
Standlake Arena 24 September 2023 |
Swaffham 23 September 2023 |
Croft 16-17 September 2023 |
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Tongham 27-28 August 2023 |
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Swaffham 13 August 2023 |
Swaffham 12 August 2023 |
Brands Hatch 6 August 2023 |
Lydden 5 August 2023 |
Tongham 23 July 2023 |
Swaffham 22 July 2023 |
Zandvoort 14-16 July 2023 |
Mondello Park 9 July 2023 |
Mondello Park 8 July 2023 |
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Standlake Arena Bank Holiday Monday
We're still working on the three very
busy events we attended over the UK Bank Holiday weekend, but
coverage and photos will be here soon |
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We were very sorry to hear of the passing of Jamie Egan
on 30 April 2023. Coming from the grass racing Hot Rod scene in Wexford,
Jamie soon became known as one of the quickest lady racers in
Ireland during the 2017 to 2019 seasons when she raced regularly
at Waterford Raceway, battling with her sister Katie. Our
sympathies to her father Pat, mother Anne, Katie, Lucy and all Jamie's
family and friends.
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Apologies for running out of
time last year! As you can see from the individual race meeting
links our work and other commitments too over after the Jubilee
Holiday weekend and once we'd missed a few weeks' updates it
proved impossible to catch up. The events below are the ones for
which we have coverage on file, some of it almost ready to
upload, some of it needing more work! If we ever get enough time
we'll try to start filling in the gaps.
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WHAT WE STILL NEED TO FINISH ...
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2022-51 ANGMERING |
2022-50 SWAFFHAM RTS 15 |
2022-49 LYDDEN KOOR 9 |
2022-48 BRANDS HATCH |
2022-47 SWAFFHAM RTS 14 |
2022-46 SILVERSTONE |
2022-45 TONGHAM |
2022-44 LYDDEN KOOR 8 |
2022-43 SWAFFHAM RTS 13 |
2022-42 STANDLAKE ARENA F2 OPEN |
2022-41 ANGMERING |
2022-40 SWAFFHAM RTS 12 |
2022-39 TONGHAM SEGTO FINAL |
2022-38 SWAFFHAM RTS 11 |
2022-37 ANGLESEY |
2022-36 TONGHAM 2-DAY |
2022-35 SWAFFHAM RTS 10 |
2022-34 BRANDS HATCH |
2022-33 LYDDEN KOOR 5 |
2022-32 TONGHAM |
2022-31 LYDDEN CMMC |
2022-30 SWAFFHAM RTS 8 |
2022-29 DONINGTON |
2022-28 SWAFFHAM RTS 7 |
2022-27 TONGHAM 50 |
2022-26 - LYDDEN KOOR 4 |
2022-25 - ANGMERING SWM |
2022-24 SWAFFHAM RTS 6 |
2022-23 CASTLE COMBE |
2022-22 ANGMERING SEGTO
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OUR 2022 MONTH BY MONTH ..... |
NOVEMBER 2022 ….
We completed our season with the Mini 7s’ “Winter” championship
round at Brands Hatch, supported by the very popular truck
racing, the Kent Oval Outlaws’ season closer at Lydden, the
final RTS meeting at Swaffham, and unfortunately what would this
time definitely be our last ever visit to the already much
missed Angmering Oval Raceway.
OCTOBER
2022 ….
As the season began to wind down, we only managed to fit in five
events during October. Two of these were with the Rolling
Thunder Show at Swaffham, with another Kent Outlaws meeting at
Lydden. We planned two visits to Tongham, but the final date
proved to be the SEGTO track’s first rain-out of the year. From
two of our favourite tracks to one of our least favourites, the
Mini 7 Racing Club’s national season ended on the
“International” circuit at Silverstone
SEPTEMBER 2022 ....
One of
our most eagerly awaited treats of this year was the Mini Seven
Racing Club's first visit to the spectacular Anglesey circuit at
the beginning of the month, which didn’t disappoint. The rest of
our September plans centred around some of our regular venues
including Swaffham, Lydden, the SEGTO Championship final at
Tongham, the Outlaw F2 Stox Open Championship at Standlake Arena
and, sadly, the second of the special "farewell" meetings for
Angmering Oval Raceway.
AUGUST
2022 ...
The highlight of August these
days has to be the annual Mini Festival at Brands Hatch, with a
packed race programme highlighted by the Mini Seven Racing Club
classes, and plenty of off track attractions (including a
display by the Kent Oval Outlaws, combining two of our current
racing interests). As the heatwave continued, we also took a bit
of much needed time away from the tracks, so our only other
events were the Rolling Thunder Show's "World Finals" meeting at Swaffham and the two-day Bank Holiday event at Tongham. Clashing
commitments kept us away from a lot of events we'd normally
prioritise, including the All Ireland Autograss finals at West
Waterford, the summer edition of the East Cork Fun Sprint at
Watergrasshill and the 51st Fastest Man on Grass at Lincoln.
JULY 2022 ....
In the sweltering heat of July,
we continued to keep our oval racing action relatively local,
with two visits to the Rolling Thunder Show's Swaffham meetings
and one each to Tongham Motor Club. As well as the latest
instalment in the Kent Oval Outlaws' successful season, we took
in a rare day's circuit racing at Lydden with the added
attraction of the second UK outing of the year for V8 Late
Models. The Mini Seven Racing Club's latest round at Donington
Park provided further circuit racing. At the end of the month we
maintained our "sabbatical" from Autograss racing, missing our
first Nationals since 1989 as other commitments just couldn't
make time for it.
JUNE 2022
....
Our June schedule kickED off
over the Jubilee Holiday weekend with two visits to Angmering,
including the third SEGTO Championship round. Then we followED
the Mini Seven season to Castle Combe, before further events at
Swaffham. We returned to Angmering for the last annual Scott
West Memorial meeting, where a good turnout of Hot Rods produced
a memorable day, followed by another visit to the Kent Oval
Outlaws at Lydden, rounding the month off with a special event
to commemmorate Tongham Motor Club's 50th anniversary.
MAY 2022
....
We enjoyed a busy month
of May, starting with the second SEGTO Championship round at Angmering
and followed by further visits to Standlake Arena,
The Kent Oval Outlaws at Lydden Hill, Tongham Motor Club and
Swaffham Raceway, plus
what's always one of the highlights of the Mini Seven season at Cadwell
Park.
APRIL 2022
....
A full and varied month taking
advantage of all the sunshine, with one highlight being
our first visit to the new Kent Outlaw Oval Racing club that's
establishing a new style of oval motorsport, very successfully,
at Lydden Hill. Two days of excellent racing at Snetterton with
the Mini Seven Racing Club, two more Saturday night dates with
the Rolling Thunder Show at Swaffham, two very well supported
SEGTO meetings at Tongham Motor Club and an Easter Monday trip
to Standlake Arena completed a busy month.
MARCH 2022
....
Our outings in March were
restricted to two events; the first round of the SEGTO
Championship, which would again be contested over three hard
surface rounds at Angmering and three on dirt at Tongham, and
the first event of the Rolling Thunder Show's busy Saturday
night season at Swaffham. Our month was due to be completed with
the first rounds of The Mini Seven Racing Club's Championships
at Silverstone, but Covid had finally caught up with us....
JANUARY AND
FEBRUARY 2022 ....
It
was a
promising start to the year, despite the cancellations of
the Autosport show, Motorsport with Attitude and Race Retro. Our
year kicked off with the revival of the Oval Racing Expo, which
provided a superb day's racing at Swaffham, if not quite on the
scale yet of past events at Arena Essex. At the end of January
we at last made it back to Ireland for the East Cork Hot Rod
Club's Loftus Haulage Funsprint at Watergrasshill.
Mid-February saw
us back on more local ground, for the season opener at Standlake
Arena. Even at this stage of the year we were feeling the effect
of clashing fixtures, with our last few outings keeping us away
from the first very well supported events of what's sadly going
to be the last season at Angmering Oval Raceway, but we were
hoping to return to the south coast venue very soon.
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ALMOST A NORMAL YEAR ... WITH A
FEW DIFFERENCES
2021 for us
was in danger of being dominated by off track matters - flooding
in Alconbury village at Christmas 2020 meant that for much of
the year we were exiled from racer.one HQ and dealings with
insurers and contractors almost got in the way of racing
activity. We never quite made it over the water this year; by
the time we felt that Ireland was ready for us the weather
intervened to thwart our visit to the end of season cup meeting
at Ballymurn in Wexford. On the plus side we revived our active
involvement with the Mini Seven Racing Club, a club which we've
been part of for 45 years! After joining the Minis at Snetterton,
Cadwell Park, Brands Hatch, Pembrey, Donington Park and Brands
again (we just missed two rounds at Silverstone despite that
being our nearest circuit!) the Mini Seven season is promising
to be our top priority for 2022! Our top oval circuit was
of course Standlake Arena again and we had six trips to
Oxfordshire, while we completed the year with a return to the
other side of the Fens at Norfolk's Swaffham Raceway, which we
expect to play a major part in our 2022 plans. On the Autograss
front the always healthy club scene at Invicta Kent was the
major draw and we fitted in five meetings there. We couldn't
miss either the Stock Hatch Nationals or the Fastest Man on
Grass, hosted by Sturton & Stow club, and of course there were
the two National meetings at York and Radford. Again we have
plenty of coverage of all these events to upload, so we'll start
filling in the gaps - time permitting!
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AUGUST 2020.... BACK IN ACTION
We're afraid our website updates
were one thing that suffered during 2020. But we did get back to
a few local events as the country slowly struggled back to life.
With Autograss confined to "practice" events for the year (you
wouldn't have known the difference!) we made it to three
meetings at Invicta Kent and two at Scunthorpe. Among the oval
raceways the independent track at Standlake came to the fore in
applying all the right restrictions in a sensible and balanced
way and we enjoyed three excellent late season meetings there,
including the Outlaw F2 Open, which was again a highlight of the
year. We have coverage of all these events waiting to be sorted
and uploaded so we'll see when the workload allows us to catch
up!
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JANUARY &
FEBRUARY 2020 ....
The first two months of our
season were dominated by the weather. We were lucky at our first
two competitive events of the year, the East Cork Hot Rod-run
McNamara Motorsport Funsprint at Watergrasshill, and the
non-championship opening meeting at Waterford Raceway, but the
storms "Ciara" and "Dennis" that hit Ireland and the UK in quick
succession in February caused two postponements of the
re-opening of the Kilflynn Raceway in Co Kerry. On the bright
side, both the Motorsport with Attitude and Race Retro shows
enjoyed fine, if chilly, weather for their outdoor live action.
MARCH 2020 ....
The Kilflynn event finally went
ahead with a good crowd to enjoy two days of rather wet and
windy action - we'll hope that the Kerry track will soon see
more regular racing again. Straight after our return from Kerry,
all Irish Motorsport was put on hold. The Waterford Raceway
practice day and championship round 1 on March 21/22 were the
first meetings to be announced as postponed, but every other
organiser in Ireland quickly followed suit. The UK ovals still
had a very busy weekend on 14/15 March, with the majority
of both ORCi and independent tracks in action, although the
weather was inevitably postponing the start of the Autograss
season. A day later the UK was following Ireland's example
and all of our plans for the year, racing and otherwise, were
put on pause ...
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National
Autograss Championships
at Red Roses 4-5 August 2018
- coverage coming soon |
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Standlake
Arena
24 June 2018
- coverage coming soon |
Rolling
Thunder Show at Arena Essex
30 June 2018
- coverage coming soon |
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Standlake
Arena
Spring Bank Holiday Monday
- coverage coming soon |
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Rolling
Thunder Show at Arena Essex
26 May 2018
- coverage coming soon |
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Rolling
Thunder Show at Arena Essex
12 May 2018
- coverage coming soon |
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Standlake Arena
May Bank Holiday Monday
- coverage coming soon |
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Standlake
Arena
29 April 2018
- coverage coming soon |
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Rolling
Thunder Show at Arena Essex
28 April 2018
- coverage coming soon |
Rolling
Thunder Show at Arena Essex
14 April 2018
- coverage coming soon |
Standlake
Arena
15 April 2018
- coverage coming soon |
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Standlake
Arena
Easter Monday
- coverage coming soon |
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Standlake
Arena
11 March 2018
- coverage coming soon |
Angmering
Oval Raceway
18 March 2018
- coverage coming soon |
Race Retro
Stoneleigh Park 24 February 2018
- coverage coming soon |
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The Oval
Racing Expo
Arena Essex Raceway
- coverage coming soon |
Standlake
Arena
18 February 2018
- coverage coming soon |
Autosport
International 2018
Show coverage coming soon |
Autosport
International 2018
Live Action coverage coming soon |
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