FEATURE
George Buckley
Club : Southern Car Club Event : AutoSOLO
“ During my second year of college , a friend of mine mentioned F1 and I started to get into it . I asked my dad to take me to Silverstone for the British Grand Prix for my 18th birthday , but I was never really looking beyond that until another friend mentioned Rallying , so I started to look at that too .
“ I had a friend online who also had an interest in F1 , so we found some other people and increased our friendship group . They all liked endurance racing and so my interest expanded from there and in November 2023 , I went onto the Motorsport UK site and put my name in to be contacted by somebody in a Club .
“ The Southern Car Club called me a week or so later , I joined , and it just went from there . I became a Marshal in 2024 and went all over the place , then as I got more involved , I met a lot of people who had been involved in grassroots events . I said
I was interested and at the awards night , a bunch of us were put together as the new AutoSOLO group !
“ The Club prepared us really well . They ran a night at a pub where we all came along with the cars we were going to use and we did a mock scrutineering , with people there to answer our questions . There were also videos we could watch and a couple of WhatsApp groups that anyone in the Club can join , so we were able to get any information we needed .
“ I got an MX5 in May last year – not specifically to do AutoSOLOs , but just as a more fun car to have – and it happened to be a month or two before the AutoSOLO , so I ended up using that . In the most recent event I did , there was about 16 of them there ! It ’ s a great car for these events because of its nimbleness , its small body and the rear wheel drive . It ’ s just good fun .
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Revolution - March 2025