The Club is delighted to announce the Award Winners for this year’s MotorFest:
AWARDS WINNERS:
BEST MOTORCYCLE – NO 30 – ALAN MOLYNEUX – 1990 SUZUKI-BAKER RACE
BEST UP TO 1939 – N0 67 -GARETH PRITCHARD – 1932 FORD MODEL B
BEST POST WAR UP TO 1966 – NO 69 GEOFFREY ARROWSMITH – 1949 TRIUMPHS 2000 ROADSTER
BEST 1966 TO 1999 – N0 6 – PHILIP AUSTIN – 1973 JAGUAR E-TYPE V12
POST 1990 – N0 24 – ADAM BURROWS – 1992 PEUGEOT 205 GTI
BEST MILLENIUM – NO 27 – NICK OWEN – 1998 CHEVROLET CORVETTE C5
BEST MG – NO 50 – DAVID FILDES – 1960 MGA ROADSTER
BEST MINI – N0 103 – JOHN DICKENSON – 1999 MINI COOPER SPORT
BEST IN SHOW – NO 64 – DAVID WHITE – 1910 FORD MODEL T CONVERTIBLE
Best in Show Award Winner – David White, with Rod Keay – Centre (Director/Presenter – Liverpool Live Radio) and Mike Ashcroft -Left (Event Secretary – Ormskirk Motorfest/Aintree Circuit Club)
SPECIAL INVITATION – 70TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION – 1955 RAC BRITISH GRAND PRIX – SAT 9TH AUGUST 2025 – SPECIAL GUESTS – BTCC STARS – JASON PLATO AND DAN ROWBOTTOM
ALL TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD.
Hello Folks – PRIVATE INVITATION – 70th Anniversary Celebration – 1955 RAC BRITISH GRAND PRIX – SATURDAY 9TH AUGUST – AINTREE RACECOURSE. OPEN TO MEMBERS, NON-MEMBERS AND YOUR GUESTS.
Event Schedule
4:00 PM – Welcome & Registration – refreshments served in the Princess Royal Suite
6:00 PM – Race Car Parades on the historic grand prix circuit (grandstand section)
7:00 PM – Aintree Circuit Drive Experience
8:00 PM – Dinner in the Princess Royal Suite
Highlights
Historic GP circuit runs in classic and contemporary cars
Evening dinner with guest drivers and motorsport personalities
Proudly presented by Aintree Circuit Club and supported by Cataclean.
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT – ORMSKIRK MOTORFEST RETURNS FOR 2025 – Sunday 24th August.
The Club is delighted to announce the return of our Ormskirk Motorfest to its traditional home in Ormskirk Town Centre.
We will have vehicle display paddocks back in Moor St and Aughton St next to the Clock Tower and in Coronation Park.
The event will be free for the public to attend and will be open from 11am until 4pm.
Vehicles may join an optional open road parade run under general traffic conditions following the legacy motorfest parade route around Ormskirk Town Centre
COMPETITOR ANNOUNCEMENT. Regulations and Entries now available for Cataclean Southport Speed Sprint Revival 2025 – Sat 13th September.
After long negotiations with Sefton Council, we are delighted to announce that we will be returning to Southport with our unique closed road Speed Sprint on Saturday 13th September.
Southport Speed Sprint Revival: Early Bird Entry Reminder
Dear Competitor,
EARLY BIRD ENTRY REMINDER – SOUTHPORT SPEED SPRINT REVIVAL – SATURDAY 14TH SEPTEMBER – CLOSES 11TH AUG.
Just a polite reminder to get your early bird entry in for the Sprint…quite a nice saving for those on tight budgets!
If you aren’t aware, we have doubled the length of the course to just over 1 mile by running in both directions along Marine drive, with new start and finish locations closer to the Victoria Park paddock!
We are also now working in partnership with Classic Car Weekly, whose Editor, David Simister, is a native of Southport and a very good friend of ours, to raise funds at our Southport Events for the families of the Southport Atrocity, that has shocked us all.
Click hereto enter your car. Click hereto download SR’s with Class Details (we run standard MSUK and North and Midland Speed classes)
We would also like to invite you to join us in the evening for our President’s Dinner, which is also our 70th Anniversary Dinner, at the Waterfront Hotel, Southport.
Special Guest of Honour will be the Mayor of Sefton, Cllr June Burns. We shall also be raising funds at the dinner for Southport.
£62.50 per person or £465 for your Table of Eight Guests Please email: dinner@aintree.org.uk to book your places or tables. ACC will invoice bookings payable by Bank Transfer. Special Room Rate for Guests: Please book your rooms directly with the Hotel and quote ACC Dinner: 01704 516220
Quote Discount Code: EVENTBB for 20% off best rates. Your visit to the Waterfront will include free complimentary secure underground parking with direct lift access to reception and your rooms.
Neville Hay’s Obituary and Funeral Details as follows:
Neville Hay was born in Kidderminster Worcestershire on 12th November 1938. He was educated at King Charles 1st Grammar School Kidderminster and as a young man always listed his interests as girls, cars, and the Theatre in that order!
Neville worked briefly as an Actor and then joined the Motor Trade for some years. His theatrical interests
continued and this was where he met his future wife Dorothy in 1957. They married over 60 years ago on September 10th, 1960, and have three grown up children Richard Stephanie and John and six grandchildren
In 1960 he joined a Timber Merchants and Importers, a specialist Joinery Manufacturing business, of which he became Chairman and Chief Executive until he sold the business in 1975.
He started commentating on Motor Sport for fun, as cars and Motor Sport have always been present in his life.
As a small boy in the forties, his love of History and Motor Sport history in particular started and continued throughout his life.
The direct involvement in motor sport commentary began fifty years ago, and expanded in to writing as early as the sixties, covering road tests and Motor Shows throughout Europe.
His theatrical and his own motor racing ambitions became sacrificed however in order to hold down three different means of making living in the sixties and early seventies of which Motor Sport became a dominant part.
By the mid-sixties his Motor Sport commentaries began to centre around Film Commentary, Public Address and Broadcasting and by the mid-seventies this was a full time occupation.
The Film, TV and Broadcasting activities required writing scripts of course and by now he was a member of the Guild of Motoring Writers whilst also working as a freelance Commentator for BBC Radio. Worldwide TV
Commentaries followed including Channel 7 Australia, Screensport, Eurosport, Sky ITV and Channel Four.
In 1981 Neville and Dorothy Hay founded the successful television production company Hay Fisher Productions.
They were joined in the business by their elder son, Richard, who became a director in 1985.
In 1993 Neville was delighted to be invited by the Directors of the BRDC to become an Associate Member
The Hays sold their interest in the business to son Richard in 1994, Their younger son John who is a Partner in a Suffolk Solicitors practice, has also been involved, regularly assisting in what is now his brother’s organisation as a skilled and experienced cameraman
Neville continued commentating regularly until 1997, while producing TV Films on Motor Racing history became a major activity throughout the Nineties.
He has a large private library of Motor Sport books and Archive Film and Neville and his wife produced, wrote and directed well over a hundred Archive programmes.
The writing side of his activities expanded in the late nineties and was encouraged by his friend, Ed McDonough, and Charles Harbord, founder of the Magazine “Cars for the Connoisseur,” who invited him to write a regular column.
Neville and Dorothy Hay moved to the Isle of Man in 1997 and over the last twelve years Neville has concentrated on writing They now live in semi-retirement close to the sea with, as Neville puts it, ‘as much garden as my wife can manage’.
His Biography of Prince Birabongse of Thailand and the British Racing
Driver Tony Rolt were published in 2009.
He continued to commentate for TV, Radio and Circuits at the events he enjoys such as Le Mans, the Goodwood Historic Meetings, the Silverstone Classic and the Ormskirk Motorfest.
He has devoted more time to his other interests including good food, wine and cooking. Alongside writing he is an avid reader and his broad tastes in music and the theatre reflect a lifelong interest in both.
The Hays have always loved animals, particularly dogs, and have two King Charles Spaniels, Vince and Harry who play a large part in their lives.
One close friend has been heard to opine that given the choice,
he would come back as one of their dogs!
Neville started commentating for ACC at the Aintree Festival of Motorsport, in 2004, when we celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the Grand Prix Circuit over a 3-day event held in late November.
Neville had VIP treatment, staying at the same Hotel as Sir Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks and his great friend, Roy Salvadori and attending the two Black Tie Gala Dinners we held on the Friday and Saturday evenings.
He was also a regular visitor to Liverpool for treatment at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital.
Neville then joined us for our Club Relaunch in 2009 and then became our Event Commentator for the Ormskirk Motorfest from 2011 to 2019, flying over from the Isle of Man and staying in his favourite Premier Inn at Scarisbrick, often accompanied by his wife, Dorothy, who would join us for our traditional “Motorfest Eve” Dinner in Ormskirk.
Neville would generally only commit to Motorfest a few weeks before the event because, to quote…”I never thought I would last this long!”
May his memory be preserved in the hundreds of motor racing films and documentaries he has produced, his motor racing commentaries and the pleasure we had from his jovial and enlightening company over the years.
The Club offers it’s condolences to Neville’s wife Dorothy and his children, Richard, John and Stephanie.
Wake to beheld at The Crown and Sandys Hotel, Main Road, Ombersley, WR9 0EW
Photo: Neville on the grid of the first Ormskirk Motorfest in 2011
OCEAN SPEED REVIVAL SOUTHPORT 2024 EDITION NOW OPEN FOR EARLY BIRD ENTRIES – SAT 14TH SEPTEMBER
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We are now accepting entries for the OCEAN SPEED REVIVAL SOUTHPORT 2024 EDITION.
This will take place on Saturday 14th September 2024 and use the same section of Southport’s Marine Drive as the 2023 Edition.
We are delighted to announce we doubling the length of the course to 1 Mile/1650m!
Please download the Event Supplementary Regulations from here
Please read and understand these SR’s for event details, particularly the Classes that you may enter.
To enter your car, please click here This will take you to our Online Entry System (with another link for the SR’s).
Invited Clubs/Associations:
Association of North-Western Car Clubs (Championship Qualifying Round) S.D.34 M.S.G.(Championship Qualifying Round) Aston Martin Owners Club Benjafields Racing Club Bentley Drivers Club (all regions) British Racing Drivers Club B.A.R.C. (all regions) B.R.S.C.C. (all regions) Bristol Owners Club Bristol Owners and Drivers Association (Championship Qualifying Round) Ferrari Owners Club Hillclimb and Sprint Association Jaguar Drivers Club Jaguar Enthusiasts Club Lancashire Automobile Club Liverpool Motor Club Longton and District Motor Club (Championship Qualifying Round) M.G. Car Club (all regions) (Championship Qualifying Round) Midland Automobile Club Morgan Sports Car Club
TVR Car Club Veteran Car Club of Great Britain Vintage Sports Car Club (Championship Qualifying Round)
Payment is by Bank Transfer or Cheque.
The event is a round of the ANWCC Sprint and Hillclimb Championship
Dates announced for 2024 Southport Classic and Speed/Revival.
The Club is delighted to announce that dates have been agreed with Victoria Park and Sefton Council for the 2024 Southport Classic and Speed and Ocean Southport Sprint Revival.
The Sprint Revival will take place on Saturday 14th September.
The eventwill feature a significantly extended speed course, with relocated start/finish with the Paddock remaining in Victoria Park.
The proposed changes are subject to Motorsport UK Approval and Track Licence.
Classic and Speed will take place the following day, Sunday 15th September and will follow the established show format in Victoria Park followed by the Grande Parade along Lord Street and The Promenade.
Entries are now open for Classic and Speed 2024. To enter your vehicle, click here.
If you have a PRE-WAR Car (Registered prior to Sep 1939), we have a concessionary entry. To enter your vehicle, click here.
Our monthly meetings take place at The Nordico Lounge, Moor Street, Ormskirk.
