PICKING THE BEST OF MANY OPTIONS
As we always seek to reflect in Motorsport News, there is a wide and diverse landscape of motorsport categories in the UK. Therefore, with last year’s MN special annual Getting Started in Motorsport supplement focusing mainly on circuit racing, this time we give special focus to how you can get involved competing in the some of the many other competition options out there. First off our reporter Nick Garton looks at a few of the choices for starting out in rallying. There is no shortage of alternatives here, and Garton delves into rally schools and Formula 1000, plus one case of the increasingly common tale of an online star looking for steps in real-life competition.
Then our focus shifts to rallycross. As our rallycross editor Hal Ridge outlines on p22, this discipline has challenges all of its own for how new people can get time behind the wheel. But equally the options are growing, again not least in the virtual world.
After that, MN editor Matt James explores his favourite specialist subject of short oval racing with a step-by-step guide to how you can get your competition fix here.
And of course there is racing’s classic starting-out option of karting, yet even here there are a few things to think about before you get going. On p26 Stephen Lickorish explains these.
However we don’t entirely ignore car racing in this supplement, and indeed there are four junior circuit racing championships where youngsters can be out competing from as young as 14. I look at what each of them offer on p28.
While historic racing offers a landscape all of its own for newcomers, so our historics man Paul Lawrence on p31 outlines the available contests and the considerations.
And of course getting involved in motorsport isn’t necessarily about competing yourself. There are a variety of roles, and careers, in support and one growing in prominence is in PR and marketing. Prolific PR Emma Spearing therefore on p33 tells us what you need to do to pursue that.
We hope as ever what we have here is helpful for you getting started for real, and if you have queries or comments do not hesitate to get in touch at graham.keilloh@kelsey.co.uk.