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 […]
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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 […]
“After my 2019 British Rally Championship plans fell through a month before the opening round, I was left without a seat. The opening round was the Cambrian Rally in Llandudno, North Wales, which was also the opening round of the BTRDA (British National Championship of which I competed in last […]
2300 Club are pleased to announce the winner of the 2018 John Easson Award. Lincolnshire driver George Lepley was chosen as the winner of this year’s prestigious award which is worth a total prize fund of £6,000. This year we had a total of 17 Candidates for the award consisting […]
2300 Club are pleased to announce the finalists of the 2018 John Easson Award. George Lepley Finley Retson Ewan Tindall The Award selection committee will meet the finalists later in November and following an informal interview the winner of the 2018 JEA will be decided. The standard of applicants was […]
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