Entries now open for the Segrave 100 Southport Celebrations – 14 -16th March 2026
WELCOME TO THE SEGRAVE 100 WORLD LAND SPEED RECORD CELEBRATIONS – SOUTHPORT – 14TH – 16TH MARCH 2026
Lieutenant Colonel Stephen Segrave, great‑nephew of Sir Henry Segrave, and Gina Campbell, daughter of Donald Campbell and granddaughter of Sir Malcolm Campbell, pictured at Ainsdale in 2016 with the Sunbeam Tiger WLSR car.
Credit: Michael Ashcroft
Supported by Cataclean
Brought to you by Aintree Circuit Club
I am delighted to invite you to join us again at Southport, for the 100th anniversary of Sir Henry Segrave setting a new world land speed record on Ainsdale Sands – 16th March 1926.
This was the last occasion when a world land speed record was achieved by a circuit racing car and the smallest engine capacity car to do so, with just a 4 litre V12 supercharged engine – the Sunbeam Tiger (nee Ladybird)
I am further delighted to advise that thanks to the patronage of the family of VJ Mallya, the Sunbeam will be back at Southport and Ainsdale for the 100th anniversary!
You are invited to join us for three events from the 14th (Saturday) to the 16th (Monday) of March as follows:
Saturday 14th March – The Segrave 100th Anniversary Charity Dinner 2026 – Waterfront Hotel, Southport.
Tickets are £95/head for a 4-course gourmet meal and £750 for a table of 8 guests.
Guest of Honour: The High Sheriff Of Merseyside, Mr Billy Hui.
Details: The Segrave 100th Anniversary Dinner | SouthportC&S
Sunday 15th March – The Segrave 100 Concours – King’s Gardens, Promenade, Southport.
Entry Fee only £25 per car. Class Awards. Free if you are attending the dinner and the Segrave 100 at Ainsdale.
This was the location for the finish of the famous 1903 Southport Speed Trials, one of the first organised speed trials in Great Britain, where after the Official Runs, drivers attempted record breaking runs.
The Speed Trials attracted some of the biggest names in early British motor racing, including S. F. Edge in his Napier, J. E. Hutton in a powerful Panhard, G. Higginbottom in a Mercedes, A. Rawlinson in a Paris–Madrid Darracq, and the pioneering Dorothy Levitt, the first female racing driver, in her 12 hp Gladiator, winning her class.
To enter your car: The Segrave 100 – Concours d’Elegance – Sunday 15th March – King’s Gardens, Promenade, Southport. OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM | Ormskirk MotorFest
Monday 16th March – The Segrave 100 World Land Speed Record Celebration – Ainsdale Beach, Promenade, Ainsdale, Southport.
Entry Fee £100 per vehicle (concession of £90 if the attending the Segrave 100 Anniversary Dinner)
- A non-competitive display and parade event, that will consist of 6 classes, for period defined road and racing cars.
- Only cars manufacturer/registered up to and including 1950 will be accepted as entries.
- Priority entries will be given to pre-war cars.
- Beach Parade Runs will take place between 1030 and 1230, over the original measured mile speed course.
- The Sunbeam Tiger WLSR Car and other period Grand Prix and Racing Cars will undertake their parade runs from 1130 to 1230.
- You are invited to use the Official Entry Form below to enter your vehicle.
- Free admission to the General Public to enjoy the celebration and the spectacle of the event.
ALL PARTICIPATING VEHICLES MUST PRE-REGISTER, TO COMPLY WITH MOTORSPORT UK REGULATIONS.
We will not be able to accept any entries on the day. Only pre-registered cars and official vehicles will be permitted access to the beach parade run zone
To enter your car: The Segrave 100 – Ainsdale Beach – Monday 16 March 2026 – OFFICIAL ENTRY FORM | Ormskirk MotorFest
Packages: The Segrave 100 Dinner plus optional Concours plus Segrave 100 WLSR Celebration: £185
Payment for all events is by Bank Transfer to Aintree Circuit Club Community Account.
We look forward to seeing you all back in Southport, to join us for this momentous weekend of Classic and Speed celebrations.
Cataclean Southport Speed Sprint Revival 2026- Sat 28th March – early bird entries now open.
Early Bird Entry forms are now live. Supplementary Regulations can also be downloaded from the event entry page.
(Picture Credit Andrew Brown: Billy Hui, High Sheriff of Merseyside taking a parade run in Hamish Roscoe’s Triumph TR3 – 2025 Cataclean Southport Speed Sprint Revival)
Please click on the following link to enter your car – please be aware you will need any Motorsport UK RS InterClub or higher-grade licence to compete (e.g. Race National) unless you are a junior competitor or competing in an intro class of car.
Looking forward to seeing you at Southport.
Michael Ashcroft – Event Secretary.
Ormskirk MotorFest 2025 – Awards Winners
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
- Period race cars on display & memorabilia
- Anniversary presentation & celebration
To book your place: www.ormskirkmotorfest.com/aintree1955
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
To enter your vehicle, please click here
COMPETITOR ANNOUNCEMENT. Regulations and Entries now available for Cataclean Southport Speed Sprint Revival 2026 – Sat 28th March.
After 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 28th March.
Event Regulations may be downloaded from here
To enter your competition vehicle, please click here
We are now open for entries, which start from £155 for early bird entries.
Early bird entries close 21st February and we finally close for entries 21st March
Dates announced for 2025: Southport Classic and Speed will be held on the 13th of September.
Please make a note in your event calendar for next year’s Southport Classic and Speed.
Please keep a watch on our dedicated website for further details:
www.southportclassicandspeed.com
We are also delighted to announce that Cataclean will continue to support our events in 2025
Southport Speed Sprint Revival 14 Sept 2024
OFFICIAL RESULTS
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 here to enter your car. Click here to 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.
Details: The President’s Dinner | SouthportC&S (southportclassicandspeed.com)
£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.
__________________________________www.waterfronthotelsouthport.co.uk__________________________
Looking forward to seeing you again in Southport.
Neville Hay Obituary
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.
Nevilles Funeral arrangements are as follows:
Wyre Forest Crematorium, Kidderminster, DY13 8DE 2.30pm
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
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