The last weekend of May brought the national  trials championship to rounds 2 and 3 right down on the south  coast with Saturday in Devon and Sunday in Somerset.After what seemed like endless rain for weeks running up to it finally the sun, and summer broke out from behind the clouds on the Wednesday afternoon in the […]

The yellow Mini I’ve been using since it was restored in 2003 made it first national  appearance  on a wet March or April on the Matthews Auto Salvage Trial on Anglesey after a three and a half hour drive, didn’t do very well, but persiteded with it for the next 16 years peaking with the […]

13th September – A view from class 2 This event would normally be towards the end of the season but with the disruption caused by Covid it became the season opener. The venue is based near Bridgnorth which for me is down Birmingham way, most of the normal venues I know my way to now, but […]

It’s been a long time since I’ve done an event, let alone a write up, but after all this time stuck in the house with Covid 19 lock down and the effect it has had on the world let alone grassroots motor sport it was great to be up at 5:30 on a lovely sunny […]

AMY’S 18TH BIRTHDAY GRASS PCA SATURDAY 13TH JULY 2019 AT NOON IN GUISELEY Airedale & Pennine Motor Car Club are running their second Production Car Autotest on grass at the hugely popular venue, kindly hosted by Mr & Mrs Busfield. There will be four tests laid out across the eleven acres of fairly level, fairly […]

Production Car trial at Fixby run by Slaithwaite on Tuesday July 2nd. The Tuesday evening daylight in the middle of summer lasts until very late and a 7.15pm start was somewhat alarming but all was fine. A lovely evening of driving carefully through long grass by around a dozen entrants saw a mixture of Austin […]

Well the biggest event in the club calendar has run and only the big tidy up and results remain. After six months of planning and many visits to Nidderdale the event went well and we have lots of positive feedback from drivers in all classes. Just for a change the class eights were joined in […]

Derwydd Car Trail 2019 Bala and district motor clubs Derwydd event is the first of the two events that make up the first Welsh week, straight after the rescheduled Somerset weekend before, four events back to back! Great fun! It nearly didn’t happen after the Mathews Auto Salvage trail was cancelled, but thankfully Bala MC […]

Malcolm Davey and Paul Slingsby recently competed on the Manx National Rally. Mike Fox and Dave Rowe came along to service. They sat off from Malcolm’s on the Wednesday morning, Paul and Mike in Paul’s VW Touareg towing the rally car in its trailer, followed by Malcolm and Dave in Malcolm’s motorhome. They were heading […]

Mini Mid Life Crisis. Remember the 80’s and 90’s grassroots motorsport and a group from Lucas Aerospace joining A&PMCC. I was there, always keen but lacked talent. Used to run a Fiesta, then Escort and Porsche. Still am, do and kept the RWD toys. Then career/family take over and cars stay in the garage for […]