The Historic Sports Car Club is one of the premier clubs who organise something like ten race meetings each year, for as many as four hundred competitors per meeting. Their first organised race was at Castle Combe in 1966, from which it has grown into a club that organises something like ten separate meetings every year, for as many as up to four hundred competitors.Perhaps the highlight of the year is the two day 'Superprix' meeting at Brands Hatch in August, which is always well attended. The club regularly visits places like Oulton Park, Donington, Brands, Silverstone and Cadwell Park, along with races at Spa and also Croix-En-Ternois in France.

This final, one day meeting of the year, took on a sort of 'end of term' feel last weekend. The weather certainly helped; it was shirtsleeves all day, amazing for both Silverstone and the time of year! I must admit I was surprised by the size of the crowd this year, it seemed much more than normal! Saying that, there was still plenty of room to be able to walk around the paddock and pit areas unhindered, just the way we like!
The HSCC is a really 'down to Earth' club, in that everyone welcomes you if you want to have a chat about their car, no-one pushes you away from the car if you want to get a close up look either. Great stuff.

As per normal with the HSCC, variety was the order of the day, it was eight races, ranging from cars like E-type Jaguars and TVR Vixens in the Historic Road Sports race to Brabham BT18s and March 703s in the Classic Racing Cars race.

The car that took my eye in the first race (Historic Road Sports) was the Milano GT of Mike Eagles. I had never heard of these cars before, but it sure is a nice looking coupe!

The second race of the day were the Historic Formula Fords (the category I will be competing in next year). Now, maybe I'm biased (OK, I am!) but I thought the FFords produced the race of the day! There were five cars gunning for the lead for the whole race, fantastic stuff! Neil Fowler in his Lola running out a close winner. I enjoyed too, the Derek Bell Trophy Race, which has various Formula Two cars along side F5000 cars and some F3s too. Gary Pearson won this race in his F2 Tecno, which really looked and sounded the business! Sometimes the HSCC has to slightly 'mix and match' their cars, and it's the case in the Classic Racing Cars Championship. You'll be able to see cars like an F2 Brabham BT18 (ex-Jochen Rindt) compete against a Kieft Formula Junior car. This race alone boasted over forty entries! The most powerful cars on offer at this meeting were the RJB Mining Championship cars; these are the old Thundersports cars, Jon Shipman's all black GRD S74 catching the eye.

So, all in all, a very pleasant Saturday. If you ever have a chance of going to an HSCC meeting, do try and get there, I'm sure you won't be disappointed.