News: From the Chair

Firstly I have to say congratulations to the brand, recruiting and BRMC teams who made Autosport such a success.  The new stands looked fantastic and the feedback was positive.   The new BRMC logo looks great and the Teamwear smart – great idea by Kim Durose.  Congratulations too to Ian Evans who was awarded the inaugural Rally Marshal […]

It’s the start of a New Year, a new decade and a new term in office for me as Chair of BMMC. I have decided on some new aims and objectives to build on where we have already come so far. AIMS & OBJECTIVES 1.         Provide communication and support to all marshals and potential members Website […]

Today (5 Dec) is International Volunteers day and so I say a huge thank you to all of you – Volunteers ARE Motorsport.  You should all be very proud of yourselves. We had our final Council meeting of the year and AGM last Sunday at Milton Keynes.  Thank you to those of you who took the time […]

So the clocks have changed and the nights are drawing in – circuit racing calendars are nearing completion and rallying started in earnest last month with WRGB.  See and be seen out there! Now is the time of year that our regional AGMs and social functions take place.  Your chance to have a say in […]

Early September we had BMMC Council meeting – twice a year the Regional Chairs meet and twice a year the full Council sit.  This gives us a chance to focus on the club and our strategies and plans going forward. We used recent donations to purchase training equipment for the regions and this was distributed during […]

The beginning of the month was a difficult weekend in our Motorsport world with the sad loss of Anthoine Hubert and significant injuries to Juan Manuel Correa at F2 in Spa plus news that a rally marshal died in France.  A sad day and a reminder that ‘Motorsport is dangerous’ and life is fragile.   It’s important […]

‘I declare that I am physically and mentally fit to carry out my duties and that I will inform the organisers immediately should any change in my condition occur which I have reason or ought to have reason to believe would affect my ability to carry out my duties.’ Did you know this sentence forms […]

How many of you have questions about the grading scheme?  What does it mean?  What’s the process?  What is in it for me?  Who do I ask for help. The grading scheme was originally created by the BMRMC (as we used to be called) and Dave Scott (now MSVR Race Operations Director) helped Motorsport UK adopt it as a […]

The three R’s Don’t worry I am not expecting you to all go back to school – but hopefully you can already read, write and count! My three R’s are Recruitment, Retention and Recognition – what can we do? Recruitment – we have a number of events we already target for recruitment – BTCC, F1 […]

A weekend off from being at a motorsport event for a change – but there was quite a bit on the TV. Formula 1, Formula E, BTCC were all live. And a few races to watch on catch up!I am no good as a spectator and certainly a fair bit of armchair marshalling to participate […]