News: From the Chair

Training days are well underway and more planned across the regions. I attended the training day at Oulton Park where I assisted the training team with a record fifty plus new marshals!  Great interactions with our longer standing members too and acceptance of the new Pathway modules. We also had Lille Racewear in attendance to help take […]

We had a great 4 days at Autosport in January.  Well done to the Midlands team for organising the stand and cars – it looked great!  Thanks to everyone who visited us and helped out – we took a number of names of people interested in marshalling and also gave out leaflets to prospective new members.  We also […]

I hope you have all had a wonderful Christmas and New Year – taken time out, had some relaxation time and a little bit of fun!  Time to start thinking about 2023. Event calendars are coming together and we hope to launch the volunteering system soon – a few dates to iron out but some interesting […]

Yesterday was our final National Council of the year and our annual club AGM – thank you to everyone who attended in person and remotely.  We were finally able to get back together face-to-face for some constructive dialogue in the surroundings of our governing body.  Thanks to Motorsport UK for the use of your conference facilities! December […]

October sees a turning point in the year as championships are decided and rallying in inclement weather becomes more inevitable! BTCC was concluded early in the month and a scary incident in the Porsche support race saw a car launched on to debris fencing protecting a marshals’ post.  Thankfully no physical injuries for anyone involved but […]

September is my favourite time of the year – well it is my birthday month and a big one this year!  A weekend away from Motorsport spent celebrating with my family started the month – with added days to recover. The Goodwood Revival was a triumph again this year – some of the best racing and […]

Another busy month of volunteering for me – days at Oulton Park, weekends at Anglesey and Donington and even some days at our local vaccination centre – preparing for a ramp up of attendees in the coming months! My first truck racing event in August too – which was “eventful”! The support races kept us […]

Marshals Pathway – John Edwards and Steve Woolfe responded to the survey on behalf of the BMMC to ensure no bias from the Chair(!).  The response included: concerns about the omission of the flag grade the combination of Specialist (off track) and Track (on track) in to one Race pathway the reduction in experience days required […]

June 1st to 7th is National Volunteers week A simple message for this month………. THANK YOU Thank you for being a member of BMMC Thank you for attending and / or running training days Thank you for volunteering at events Thank you for enduring whatever the weather throws at you Thank you for professionally dealing […]

It’s been a bit of a busy one……..events at Goodwood, Donington and Oulton Park on the weekends.  A hectic day job this month too – thankfully we passed our audit this week! The Marshals Pathway consultation process started and although I have been involved in some forums (not all) which have been very Race orientated there […]

April already upon us I can’t quite believe we are heading into April already – where did those first three months of the year go?  I think I may have been a bit busy! National Council meeting at the start of the month was great to virtually catch up with everyone and we had some great […]