Accrington Marshals were out again supporting the new Questmead Stages at Wigan 3 Sisters circuit on 3rd March running 3 time controls on 11 stages for Warrington & District Motor Club.
Next event is the Legend Fires North West Stages on 22nd/23rd March.
Thank you to everyone for renewing their membership for 2019- your continued support is very much appreciated.
The Accrington Motor Sports Club Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 15 March 2019 at Accrington Cricket Club, Thorneyholme Road, Accrington. BB5 6BD.
The programme for the evening is as follows:
All members/prospective members welcome – why not bring along a friend ?
The meeting will be a joint meeting with the U17MC(NW) and Boundless by CSMA.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Our very own Steve Johnson featured on Radio Lancashire with Dez Desai last Thursday evening to promote the club and grassroots motorsport-if you missed it you can catch-up on the iPlayer.
Accrington MSC Member and 2017 Marshal Champion Amanda Baron put all her marshalling skills to good use when she helped a badly injured motorist on the M53 this week.
Amanda found the driver unconscious and fitting after his vehicle collided with the barrier at speed and crashed into another vehicle. In an article for the MSA Extra magazine Amanda describes how she used her First on Scene and emergency first aid training to help the injured driver before the ambulance and fire brigade arrived on scene.
Well done Amanda-you should be very proud of your achievement.
The U17MC(NW) is running a First Marshal on Scene training course at Blackburn Services (M65, J4) on Saturday 1st December 2018. You can register now using the following link : http://thats-motorsport.com/training/
3rd event for Accrington member Adrian.
Accrington MSC member Adrian is new to AutoSOLO competition and writes about his experience in an article for the latest edition of Spotlight Magazine.
Balancing work commitments with a lifelong passion for motor sport Adrian writes about winning his first event and becoming hooked on grassroots motor sport.
You can read the full article at http://sd34msg.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Sept-18-Spotlight-compressed.pdf . (pages 36/37)
Do you think Prodrive will miss this one?
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Graham Maxwell on Sunday 18th March 2018 after a short illness. Graham had been diagnosed with Cancer just eight weeks prior to his death.
He gave so much of his time and himself to supporting local motor sport clubs at grass roots level as an organiser and marshal. In 1997 he won the Knutsfords Scatter championship in a 4×4 Sierra as Navigator and was the driving force in setting up the Tour of Cheshire.
Graham enjoyed to compete in autotests and autosolos. In recent years he was a regular Clerk of Course on the CSMA Lymm events. In the last 18 months he organised factory tours for club members; to Prodrive, M –Sport, Bentley and Brigg Automotive Company as well as running a six car stand at the Footman James Classic Car Show last September.
Our thoughts go out to his wife Rita and all the family at this sad time.
Our event on 18th February attracted an entry from Accrington member Ian Seabrook who travelled all the way from deepest Wales, in his prized 2CV Dolly, to join us at Blackburn.
Ian has produced a video of his exploits https://youtu.be/jw3eaQfQv3g and a blog about what an Autotest is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RhYIZd5R3HY.
Grab a cup of tea, sit down and enjoy.
If you have any picture you’d like to share, please get in touch.
Thank you to everyone for renewing their membership for 2018. Your continued support is very much appreciated.
The Accrington Motor Sports Club Annual General Meeting will be held on Friday 23 March 2018 at Accrington Cricket Club, Thorneyholme Road, Accrington.
The programme for the evening is as follows:
7pm open committee meeting.
7.30pm AGM start
8.30pm pie and peas supper – meat and potato or cheese and onion, followed by an open forum/social event.
All members/prospective members welcome – why not bring along a friend ?
The meeting will be a joint meeting with the Under17MC (NW) and Boundless by CSMA.
We look forward to seeing you there.
Accrington Marshals receive their awards.
Accrington marshals celebrated their success at the ANWCC Awards.
4 marshals from Accrington took top 10 places in the 2017 ANWCC marshals championship.
Amanda Jane Baron took 1st place and received a decanter and trophy. Tracey Smith was runner-up.
Alexander Baron took top junior award and finished in the top 10. He received his prize at our February event at Blackburn.
There are just a few places left for our next event on Sunday 18th February. Supplementary Regulations are available for our Nat B AutoSOLO & Clubmans AutoSOLO, Autotest and Production Car Autotest to take place at Blackburn Services Services, J4 M65 on Sunday 18th February 2018. The regs and entry forms can be downloaded at www.sd34msg.org.uk (event regs section) and at www.anwcc.org.
The events are rounds of the ANWCC and SD34 championships. We look forward to receiving your entry.
