“We have won the BTRDA Silver Star in the mighty Avenger, beating all the Escort BDA’s, Millington’s, modern R2’s etc! It was great to win 4 from 4 events. Needing to finish 6th or higher on the Nicky Grist event, we finished 3rd.” “Tyre choice and being held up by […]
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Paddy Hopkirk will be greeted with a familiar sight when he flags off the crews at October’s Andy Mort Tour – his own Mini Cooper S! Although entries don’t open until next month, Mini Sport of Padiham have confirmed that Paddy’s 1990 Pirelli Marathon-winning car, 6 EMO, will be among the starters. The iconic red-and-white machine is still owned by Hopkirk,and is prepared and […]
The 2300 Club’s 2018 John Easson Scholarship Winner reports on his progress George had another mega weekend. The Rallynuts stages, starting in Builth Wells for round 3 of the BTRDA Rally Championship. A new engine in for this event, a 2 litre 16 valve BRM. “The first loop of stages […]
The 2300 Club’s 2018 John Easson Scholarship Winner reports on his progress Round 2 of the BTRDA was the Malcolm Wilson Rally, based at M-Sport, with Stages in and around the Lake District. They included a long 12.5 mile stage through the notoriously challenging Grizedale stage of which I was […]
Heads-up – here’s a date for your diary. This year we will be running the Andy Mort Tour, starting at West Bradford Village Hall on Saturday 19th October. The formula will be similar to previous years, with the exception that we plan to bring a very big rally name to […]
Finishers Awards 6 timecards were drawn at random from 26 finishers. The ‘winners’ got a bottle of fizz 1 Rob Baxandall Ryan Offord Landrover Defender 23 Peter Croft Amanda Bradley MG MGB GT 24 Julie Wardale David Wardale VW Transporter T6 10 Owen Frankland Pam Frankland MG 3 Sport 22 […]
Ron Cowan, the 2300 Club’s Safety Officer was out and about with his camera last weekend and has published quite a few photos from the Andy Mort Tour on his Flickr account here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/scottish-images/albums/72157696854258180
Flint, one of the 2300 Club Committee set up a camera overlooking the car park at the start of the Andy Mort Tour and this is the resulting time lapse of the cars assembling for the off.
The Andy Mort Tour 2018 was run on the 20th October, receiving praise from all involved. One of the Competitors, Owen Frankland in Car 10, has prepared a blog and video on YouTube, which are linked below: Owen’s Blog, including experiences and some pictures is here: http://www.oily-hands-mg-life.co.uk/oilys-news/andy-mort-tour The 9 minute YouTube […]