achieve this goal. In the past year we’ ve also created a Young Volunteers and Officials Sub-committee, that is run by two Motorsport UK staff members – Rachel Gascoigne and Sam Walker – who are respectively a Steward and a Clerk, and through this group they are generating fresh ideas for how to welcome more young people into the sport. Any ideas that you have on that front are more than welcome.

Most of you are now familiar with the StreetCar campaign, and I am proud that we have over 70 clubs that have been awarded the status of an official StreetCar club. There are hundreds of people registering their interests on the website, and multiple stories of new people joining clubs and taking their first steps into motorsport. Last summer Motorsport UK ran its first StreetCar festival at Bicester Motion, and from this we learned some important lessons. The first being that we should embed StreetCar into larger events where it can better attract newcomers from the crowds of people attending, and second, that the StreetCar festival should go‘ on the road’, and so this year there are three events spread across England, Wales and Scotland. I hope that for 2026 Northern Ireland will join the festival community as well.

The first Festival was held as part of one of Prescott’ s hill climbs, where StreetCar took over the upper car park for an AutoSOLO, the hill and woods adjacent to the track were transformed into a Production Car Trial, and to kick off the day we held a Touring Assembly. It was great chatting to people who had come along as spectators and were seeing StreetCar for the first time, and they realised that they could potentially take part rather than just watch. I would like to thank the whole team at Prescott for making us so welcome, and also the Stroud and District Motor Club for the Car Trial, the Sixty & Worcestershire Motor Club for the AutoSOLO and hosting the club stand, the Wolverhampton and South Staffordshire Car Club for the Autotest, and the Venture Bound Members Motoring Club for the Touring Assembly.

The StreetCar Festival attended Prescott Hill Climb on the first leg of its UK tour

Rob Jones and his immaculate Ford Escort

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