The National Court is the UK Disciplinary, Investigatory and Appeal Court as required by the Statutes of the FIA and the International Sporting Code. The Court is independent of Motorsport UK and administered by an external lawyer and the judges are drawn from a panel of experienced motorsport lawyers and suitably qualified motorsport professionals

Sitting on 24th May 2026 Mark Heywood( Chair), Richard Norbury, Peter Roberts

Case No. J2025 / 31 DISCIPLINARY PANEL – SIMON JONES

Present before the Court:

• Mr Nick Bamber appeared on behalf of Motorsport UK

• Mr Simon Jones appeared via video link

1. Mr Jones was summonsed before this Disciplinary Panel on 21st May 2026, to answer the following six allegations of breaches of the National Competition Rules and for consideration of further penalty.

a. NCR Ch. 2 App. 1 Art. 1.3 – dishonest acts or proceedings in connection with any Competition or Event or motor sport generally; and / or, b. NCR Ch. 2 App. 1 Art. 1.4 – the making of false declarations for the purposes of participation in Events Permitted by Motorsport UK( ASN); and / or, c. NCR Ch. 2 App. 1 Art. 1.5 – acting prejudicially to the interests of Motorsport UK( ASN), the FIA and / or motorsport generally; and / or, d. NCR Ch. 2 App. 2 Art. 6 – bringing motorsport into disrepute. e. NCR Ch. 13 App. 9 Art. 2.1 – A Competitor must hold a current valid RTA licence appropriate to their vehicle on an Event. f. NCR Ch. 13 App. 9 Art. 3.1 – Drivers must be at least 17 years old and hold a full RTA Licence for all Rallies.

2. Mr Jones admitted all the breaches as they related to the Rali Bro Teifi Targa Road Rally in June 2025. The summons had included allegations relating to the Rali Bro Presili Rally in April 2025 and the Towy Valley Lanes Road Rally in May 2025, but in light of Mr Jones’ admissions and some uncertainty in the evidence relating to those earlier rallies, Motorsport UK did not pursue the earlier matter.

3. The chronology of events is as follows. On 18th June 2025, Mr Jones appeared before Aberystwyth magistrates’ court and pleaded guilty to a number of road traffic offences. As part of his sentence, he was disqualified from driving for two years.

4. The National Competition Rules provide that where the holder of a competition licence is disqualified from driving under the Road Traffic Acts, their competition licence is automatically suspended from the date of disqualification. On 27th June 2025, Motorsport UK wrote to Mr Jones to confirm that suspension, and also to make him aware that he was under investigation for his participation in the Rali Bro Teifi Targa Road Rally on 22nd June 2025, notwithstanding his being disqualified from driving and his competition licence being suspended five days earlier.

5. Mr Jones had signed on as the driver of car number 4 in the rally. By signing the declaration that he had had the opportunity to read and would abide by the National Competition Rules he falsely declared that he was eligible to compete. He also signed the event’ s Road Traffic Act insurance declaration, falsely stating thereby that he and his vehicle were insured and that his insurance policy would cover him and his vehicle while driving on the public highway during the rally which, as a disqualified driver it would not. The seriousness of the potential consequences speak for themselves.

6. On 5th December 2025, Mr Jones was arrested for further road traffic offences including driving while disqualified, dangerous driving and driving without insurance. Mr Jones pleaded guilty to these offences before the magistrates’ court on 3rd January 2026 and on 3rd February 2026 he was disqualified from driving for a further 3 years in addition to other penalties.

7. Motorsport UK reasonably described Mr Jones’ conduct as flagrant offending of the most serious nature and invited us to consider whether exclusion, permanently forbidding the subject of the Order from all participation in any Event under the NCR or the Code was appropriate for his admitted conduct.

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