October Club news
National AGM
The 67th Annual General Meeting of the British Motorsports Marshals Club will take place this year on Sunday 1st December 2024 commencing at 14.00 at Motorsport UK, Bicester Heritage Museum OX27 8FY, and, also as a virtual event.
Anyone wishing to attend should email nat.secretary@marshals.co.uk, no later than Friday 24th November 2024, advising in person or virtually in your response.
Upcoming Regional AGMs
- South East 31st October 2024 at Hailwoods restaurant Brands Hatch and Zoom.
- North East 6th November by Zoom
- South Midlands 28th October venue Zoom
- Northern Ireland 7th November
- Rally 29th October Zoom
Please contact your regional secretary for further information.
The NW AGM was a success, being held at the Speedworks site, the current home of Toyota Gazoo Racing UK which runs the works Toyotas in BTCC. A very pleasant evening with guided tours of the site and workshop as well. Our thanks go to Mike Newton BMMC VP for facilitating the event and to Speedworks for their hospitality. At the NW AGM Oz Philips was voted in as new NW Regional Chair.
The SW AGM took place at The Almondsbury Interchange Hotel, Almondsbury on 23rd October 2024, with Rob Hambly being ratified as SW Chair. Thank to Chris Hobson, Vice President for attending.
The Midlands AGM also took place on 23rd October at the Donington Park Media suite, with Steve Hill being ratified as Midlands Chair. Both events were well attended with some positive and lively debate. Minutes of the regional AGMs will be posted on the websites soon.
On Saturday 26th October immediately following the Birkett six hour relay South Mids region held an end of season get together at the Butchers Arms in Greens Norton. This event replaced our annual AGM dinner because we could not find a suitable venue; the White Horse PH in Silverstone was closed while a new landlord completed their occupancy. The Butchers Arms provided a very tasty buffet and being a community pub it had an interesting selection of cask ales.
A number of members have volunteered for new committee roles at the North West , Midlands and South West AGMs . For details, please contact your regional secretary for further information.
Financial and Insurance
The club financial position as at September 2024 is an overall surplus of £416, which is an improvement on the position at August.
As advised in last month’s Club News we have agreed not to increase the membership subscriptions, as we continue to maintain a surplus for the year and a healthy bank balance.
At the moment, we can continue to fully subsidise marshals’ overalls, however this will depend on retaining and increasing our sponsorship.
Our National Treasurer Steve Woolfe will be contacting our current sponsors over the coming weeks with a view to their continued support.
If anyone has any good ideas/contacts for new sponsorship, then please let Steve know at nat.treasurer@marshals.co.uk.
Around the regions.
As the race season comes to a close, focus turns to rallying , with the following planned for November
- Saturday 2nd Kingdom Stages Crail Airfield, Fife
- Sunday 3rd Malton Forest Rally Dalby Forest Complex North
- Thursday 7th–Sunday 10th RAC Rally of the Tests County Durham and Lake District
- Saturday 9th & Sunday 10th Powys Lanes Road Rally WAMC Road Rally
- Saturday 9th Saltire Classic Blair Atholl NESCRO Challenge
- Friday 15th –Sunday 17th Scottish Borders Hill Rally Forrest Estate Dumfries and Galloway
- Saturday 16th Wyedean Rally Forest of Dean
- Saturday 16th Autosave Components Winter Stages Kinloss Army Barracks, North
- Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th Steve Gornall Memorial Road Rally
- Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th James Trenholme Memorial Rally Llyn Peninsula
- Sunday 17th Reserve Walters Arena, South Wales
- Sunday 17th NHMC Cadwell Stages Rally Cadwell Park
- Stage Rally Championship, EMAMC Stage Rally Championship, EMAMC Asphalt Cup
- Sunday 17th Knutsford Targa Rally Bradford
- Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th Anglo Caledonian Rally Forests of Southwest Scotland and the
- Saturday 23rd & Sunday 24th Pentraeth Glyn Memorial Stages Ty Croes
- Sunday 24th Swift Signs & Shirts Christmas Stages Rally Croft Racing Circuit
- Saturday 30th John Bloxham Memorial Historic Road Rally Bridgnorth Area
- Saturday 30th Killarney Historic Stages Rally Ireland
- Saturday 30th & Sunday 1st December Exmouth Memorial Exmouth, Devon
For more information please see https://brmc.org.uk/contacts In addition see below the dates for the Protyre Circuit Rally Championship. the information Is also on the championship website. Each event has its own website which should have details on how to contact the chief marshal for volunteering:
- Saturday 2nd November 2024 Round 1 – Salford Van Hire Neil Howard Stages
- Sunday 17th November 2024 Round 2 – NHMC Cadwell Stages Rally
- Sunday 1st December 2024 Round 3 – TEGIWA Donington Rally
Please see the website for further dates in December and beyond.
A team of 3 SE members supported Mahindra Formula E testing on 28th Oct at Abingdon airfield. Marshals were catered for on the day with free food and vouchers for attending. Further details of some exciting links with Mahindra will be announced in 2025.
The NW region is looking forward to the Race of Remembrance at Trac Mon in November, the traditional season closer. It promises to be a great event again, in its tenth year. The committee had met five times this year and with the AGM completed, we are now looking to plan for 2025.
Membership and Grading
Welcome to our 37 new members (to date) in October by region :
Midlands 12, North East 13, North West 17, South East 12, S Mids 7, South West 12
Congratulations to the following members who have upgraded:
· Richard Alton Race Grade 1
· John Tyers Race Grade 1
· Caroline McLeish Race Grade 1
· Stuart Brunton Race Grade 2 (Incident)
· Annette Benson Race Grade 2 (Flag)
· Al Clarke Race Grade 2 (Flag)
Motorsport UK re-Registration
If you haven’t recently logged into your account please use https://www.motorsportuk.org/login/ go to MEMBERS LOGIN and then put your email address and click on Forgot Password? to be sent a reset password link. However if you do not receive it please check your Spam Folder first before emailing marshals@motosportuk.org and they will forward your request to Membership.
Once logged into the Motorsport Management platform, please go to Edit Profile and upload a headshot which will be used for your Marshal Registration card only and held on your record.
Then go to Marshal Registrations. For each discipline held, please click on the green Current and then work through the questions. Once you have renewed, you will see that the date has changed from Valid To 31/12/2024 to Valid To 31/12/2025.
You will also receive an email with your digital card showing the Marshal Registration; this can also be requested by clicking on the three dots to the righthand side of the Registration Type and then use Resend Marshal Registration Email for each of the grades held.
Your 2025 Motorsport UK Marshal Registration card will be sent out to you later this month, however please remember that your 2024 cards are valid until 31/12/2024.
If you are marshalling with a colleague who does not have access to emails, and they would like a renewal form posted to them, with their permission do please email marshals@motorsportuk.org and MUK will put a form in the post to them
Regalia
NOTE FOR DIAIRIES: week commencing 25th November: Orange becomes the new Black! Watch this space.
Do you need a new set of probans – now is the ideal time to order these Lille always get a large influx of orders early in the year and to assist managing that demand get your orders in early? Please contact https://www.marshals.co.uk/regalia/regalia-how-to-order
National Regalia is still open for all your regalia orders during the off-season, so if you would like any new badges, patches, stickers, or a shiny keyring, please send an email with your request to nat.regalia@marshals.co.uk.
Additionally, we always look for ideas for new items and would love to hear your suggestions. Feel free to email us at nat.regalia@marshals.co.uk with your ideas.
Training
The annual British Motorsport Trust training grant application process closed at the end of September, and we are now awaiting the outcome of the funding decision from the BMT. As said before, keep a look out for the dates that training is being undertaken in your area, but if you are unsure when it is happening or what is being delivered please contact your Regional Training Coordinator in the first instance.
The grading scheme offered by Motorsport UK gives you the opportunity to advance/ specialise in your given disciplines over a defined period. It also allows you to try out other disciplines by completing the ‘General’ or common modules so why not try something different in what is commonly known as the closed season (although the Rally / Cross Country disciplines do keep going throughout the winter and early spring months). Both the BMMC and the BRMC websites are linked to each other, so go take a look and see what is happening in the next few months.
IT and Correspondence
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Just click on the ‘resubscribe’ button, fill in the form https://www.marshals.co.uk/bmmc-emails
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