I’ve just published a new printout from the Trials Events Database, updated to include: a lot of updated information for events in the 1970s and 1980s; all the documents available for most trials in 2022 to date; and all the provisional dates for events in 2023. View/Read the printout.
Category: Trials
The Cotswold Clouds is 60!
The Cotswold Clouds Trial was first run on 18th March 1962, so the event is sixty years old this year. The trial did not run on five of those sixty years, so it’s not actually the sixtieth event, but sixty years since the first running is still an anniversary worth celebrating. The Cotswolds had, of…
The Experts Trial
The Experts Trial was organised by the Mid-Surrey Automobile Club from 1933 until 1938. It used seventeen different sections scattered around Exmoor, so not quite on the organising club’s doorstep. Exmoor has always been prime trialling country and the Mid-Surrey AC were not the only club to travel miles to use Exmoor sections. The Brighton…
The Guy Fawkes Trial
The Falcon Motor Club’s Guy Fawkes Trial was one of many trials first run in the late 1940s or early 1950s as motorsport was restarting after the Second World War. The Guy Fawkes started off as a “North Chilterns” road trial before moving to the Cotswolds, then back to the Chilterns, ending its “first life”…
The MCC Spring Trial
The MCC Spring Trial is, as Simon Woodall says below, “a little scrap of forgotten MCC history”. In October 2007 Simon Woodall sent me the Results for the 1980 event, with these comments: This is a little scrap of forgotten MCC history. The Spring Trial ran for two years, 1980 and 1981. The Clerk of…