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The
Brooklands Society has received an
MSA
permit to run a new 2010 motorsport championship
- and it has selected two
historic, solid silver, trophies from its archive treasure store to
present to
the winners.
The
new championship, open to genuine
Brooklands cars which competed at the Weybridge track at any time from
1907 to
1939, will be based on all this year's Vintage Sports-Car Club meetings. There will be one award
for best aggregate
performance against handicap in the six 2010 VSCC Hill Climbs and
Sprints, and
one for best aggregate results in all the "Short Handicap" races at
each of this year's six VSCC race meetings.
The
race award will be the cup won by
Harry Rose in the May 1936 International Trophy race at Brooklands in a
supercharged
Maserati. The speed
events cup is the
team prize trophy presented at the May 1935 International Trophy
meeting to MG
driver Doreen Evans. The
winners will
retain the trophies for a year, but both will also receive a
commemorative
booklet recording their achievement and the history of the trophies.
Announcing
the new championship, the
Society's Competition Co-ordinator Mike Hopper said "One of the aims of
our
Society is to keep alive not just the spirit and soul of Brooklands but
the
memory of the men, women and cars which competed there.
What better way to do that than to recognise
the many genuine Brooklands cars which still compete very actively
today, and
to give their drivers the chance to have a piece of real Brooklands
history on
their sideboards for 12 months?".
No
registration is needed for the new
championship - eligible cars will automatically accrue points based on
their
results in the relevant 2010 VSCC events - but drivers can start the
eligibility checking process quickly, and get a copy of the
championship
Regulations, by e-mailing Mike Hopper on mrhopper@fsmail,net.
The
Society has also confirmed that this
year it will be continuing the individual event awards which it
successfully
introduced in 2009. Engraved
Society tankards
will go to the best performance against handicap by genuine Brooklands
cars at
all the main 2010 vintage meetings at pre-war venues - which this year
will be
the VSCC's sprint at Brooklands in June, the vintage Shelsley and Prescott
hillclimbs in July and
August, and the
VSCC "See Red"
race meeting at Donington in October.
Welcoming
the new 2010 programme,
VSCC General Secretary Mike Stripe said "I am so glad the Brooklands
Society has chosen VSCC events as the vehicle for its sporting awards
and
championship, and I look forward to a close association for many years
to
come".
For more details about the Brooklands Society please see www.brooklands-society.co.uk
The
Doreen Evans 1935 Team Prize Trophy (L) and the Harry Rose 1936 Cup (R)
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