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Our Next Meeting First race starts at Noon & last until between 5 & 6pm .... Featuring MICRO Bangers - Ministox - Stock Cars - Senior Minis - Supers - Junior Rookies
This year sees our 40th Anniversary of racing. Starting out as Westend Raceway in 1972, the Club was started as a charity event for Endmoor Sports Club, raising £600. The Westmoorland Gazette, dated 7th April 1972, reported 'A chance remark to the Rev H.L. Cane, Vicar of Preston Patrick, led to a stock car racing meeting on Easter Sunday'. It goes on to say 'was a scene of great activity in the pits as Mrs P Bainbridge and Mrs G Waite booked in the 70' drivers and their gaily painted cars......The cars limited to 2000cc were all fitted with roll bars full safety harness and permitted reinforcement to protect the drivers and radiators' ending up with 'The Ladies Race was won (in Ted Branson's Cortina) by Miss Butty Hayhurst. Second was Dot Barnes and third Ada Robinson'. It proved so popular that it started becoming more regular, and after a brief spell at a farm permanently located to our current site, on a gravel track which, at the time, was still within a working quarry.
Decades later we have usually well over 100 cars competing at each of our 18 race meetings in the season from all over the North West and sometimes further. We race on a purpose built Tarmaced quarter mile short oval, which means you can see all the action no matter where you stand. We are a members club, i.e. non profit making, and invite members of the public to come and watch the intense action on the track. There is no need to book in advance, just turn up on the day. We have limited Free Track Side Parking and a Disabled only area that has a great view of the track from outside or inside the car, both these areas are on a first come basis and cannot be reserved. Racing usually lasts until 5pm, sometimes longer, we have a Track Shop, Toilets and Burger Vans etc. Though no seating is provided, people bring fold away garden chairs, or just wander around the outside of the track and in the pits, watching cars being repaired and chatting to the drivers. Its a great place to bring a camera too and not expensive at all.
To visit us on Race Days, type in LA5 9NJ into your SAT/NAV For any spectator enquires feel free to contact Tony Porter on 07709 746 744
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The Chair & Publicity Officer : Tony 'SnOrK' Porter
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Vice Chair : Paul Postlethwaite
Secretary : Linda McDonald
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3rd June --- The Jubilee Extravaganza ... Van Bangers, done up for a Royal day out. Its open to anything from maybe a Corgi paintjob, or a Royal Mail van. 26th Aug --- The Caravan Meeting... Though the caravans usually look great, hows about pushing the boat out this year.. Again anything goes, within reason and good taste, we are a family event remember.. 23rd Sept --- The ROSE of LANCASHIRE has been made into a PRE 85, subject to numbers booked in. Contact Shaun & Jay if you are interested in Racing at this meeting. 17th JUNE --- A NON Mondeo Meeting now...
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