BRSCC LEADS NATIONAL CLUBS PUBLISHING POST-LOCKDOWN CALENDARS
The UK’S national racing clubs get their late-2020 schedules in place
By Graham Keilloh
The British Racing and Sports Car Club has released a race calendar for the rest of 2020 after the current coronavirus-related suspension ends, with other national clubs set to follow.
UK racing is currently suspended until June 30, and the BRSCC has unveiled a provisional 11-meeting calendar for the year’s remainder starting at Oulton Park on July 18.
BRSCC chairman Peter Daly told MN: “It’s something that we’ve been working on since the shutdown started nine weeks ago, we’ve been modelling different scenarios.” The BRSCC may make changes to the itinerary depending on major categories’ schedules, such as that of British Superbikes.
The British Automobile Racing Club intends to publish its calendar in early June. “That’s our plan at the moment,” CEO Ben Taylor said when asked by MN, “[BARC General Manager] Ian Watson’s working on that with championships and with venues.”
Motorsport Vision Racing and the Scottish Motor Racing Club aim to release their calendars as soon as possible, though do not yet have a firm timeframe for publication. MSVR’S motorsport events manager David Willey told MN: “We are working to the assumption that circuit racing will resume from July 1 and we are currently in discussions with all our championships and series regarding calendars for 2020. This is clearly a very complex process so I’m unable to put a timeframe on when this will be announced, but we’re keen to get going as soon as possible!”
SMRC’S business development manager Rory Bryant told MN: “The bigger championship calendars will dictate to an extent availability and so on. So we’ve not set a line in the sand for publishing a calendar but we will certainly do so as soon as we can.”
The 750 Motor Club and Castle Combe Racing Club aim to stick primarily with their originallyscheduled 2020 race dates for July onwards, though may arrange additional meetings.
CCRC chairman Ken Davies told MN: “The backbone of our restart plan is the calendar of races that remain [from the original 2020 timetable] when racing finally resumes, hopefully in July, and a number of these meetings will include doubleheader races for Castle Combe Racing Club championships. We’re also considering additional race days to compensate for those lost, but these will depend on the busy circuit’s availability.”
The 750MC aims to give all its categories at least four events and may add November rounds.