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Specifically [Schools] [Trials] [Autotests] [Sprints & Hillclimbs]

The Royal Automobile Club Motor Sports Association Limited (MSA): Motor Sports House, Riverside Park, Colnbrook, SL3 0HG

Tel: 01753 765000 Fax: +44 (0) 1753 682938

- for specific information or advice; or check the MSA website where there is a very useful 'Getting Started' section. There are also email addresses for particular disciplines; these are listed under their respective headings on the following pages.

Specialist - e.g. one-make - clubs can be found by contacting the MSA.

Books and Magazines: Motorsport News (was Motoring News) and Autosport have club motor sport sections, and carry reports of smaller events. Motor Sport is perhaps the longest-established and most traditional of all these publications.

Performance Driving Schools: There are a number of these around the country; the closest to Bristol is the Castle Combe Racing School, CHIPPENHAM, Wilts SN14 7EY. Telephone 01249 782929. Email and Website

The following schools are members of the Association of Hillclimb and Sprint Schools (AHASS) and are registered with the MSA. Passing a course at an AHASS school is equivalent to two upgrading signatures on the MSA Competition Licence.

Curborough Sprint Drivers School
23 Main Street
Costock
Loughborough Leicestershire		 Contact: Jim Robinson
Tel: 01509 852253 (w)
Fax: 01509 852729.
Gurston Down Hillclimb Drivers School
Lower Minchington Farmhouse,
BLANDFORD Dorset
DT11 8DH		 Contact: Jane Harratt
Tel: 01725 552832 (w+f)
Also, contact Simon Durling
Tel: 01732 883320.
Harewood Hillclimb Drivers School
c/o Simon Clark
Inchmarlo, Cattal
North Yorkshire
YO5 8EB		 Contact: Pat Kenyon
Tel: 01142 340478 (w+f)
or 01142 851114
Fax 01142 340478
Prescott Hillclimb Drivers School
Prescott Hill
Gotherington
Cheltenham Gloucestershire
GL52 4RD		 Contact: Mrs Sue Ward
Tel: 01242 673136
or 01242 679796
Fax: 01242 677001

For specific information on Trials:

 Email Trials at the MSA

British Trial & Rally Drivers Association (BTRDA)
Mike Stevens
Willow Cottage
Bradnocks Marsh Lane
Barston, Solihull
B92 0LH.		 Tel: 01217 054 695 (w)
or 01676 532 337 (h).
750 Motor Club
Robin Knight
Rose Farm, Upper Street
Oakley
Diss, Norfolk
IP21 4AX		 Tel 01379 741641
The Association of Classic Trials Clubs (ACTC)
Mr Adrian Tucker-Peake
6 Echells Close, Bromsgrove,
Worcester, B61 7EB		 Tel: 01527 878388 (h)

For specific information on Autotests:

 Autotests at the MSA

British Trial & Rally Drivers Association (BTRDA)
Mike Stevens
Willow Cottage
Bradnocks Marsh Lane
Barston, Solihull
B92 0LH.		 Tel: 01217 054 695 (w)
or 01676 532 337 (h)

For specific information on Sprints and Hillclimbs

 Speed Events at the MSA

The Hillclimb and Sprint Association (HSA)
Ben Boult
Spring Cottage
Gaydon Road
Bishops Itchington  Warwickshire
CV33 0QX

 

 Tel 0192 6612432 (h+f)

HSA Email
 
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