NEWS and POSTS
Get it Sideways Stages Rally 2020
Hi All,
We will be holding our first rally meeting tomorrow night (Monday 6th Jan) 20:00 at the club.
If you want to get involved please try to make it.
Dave G
http://cheltmc.com/get-it-sideways-stages-rally/
Dave Cooper Winter Series Round 3 – Friday 17th January 2020
Hi All,
Round 3 of the Dave Cooper Winter Series will be held on Friday 17th January 2020 using Maps 163 and 162 and is approximately 49 miles in length. This round is being hosted by Cirencester Car Club and run by Martin Saunders and Dave Gregory
Sign on will be at the Cheltenham Clubhouse from 18.30, and there will be a 10 minute drive out to the Start. The finish will be at a pub approximately 20 minutes from Cheltenham where light refreshments will be provided.
Please register your interest on the provisional entry list here – http://cheltmc.com/12-car/
IMPORTANT
New Motorsport UK rules for 2020 require that both the Driver and Navigator have a minimum of RS Clubman competition licences to compete in this event. These are obtainable free of charge from Motorsport UK here –
https://www.motorsportuk.org/get-started/2020-rs-clubman-licence/
Please apply as soon as possible, you will get an acknowledgement of your application via email which we will accept on the night so bring along a printout. We are not planning on taking applications on the night so please do it now.
We are also looking for Marshals on the night so if you can help please let me know.
We hope to see you on the 17th
Dave
Christmas Cracker 2019 – RESULTS
All
Many thanks to all who took part in the last nights annual Christmas Cracker Treasure Hunt, especially those who travelled from Durlsey, Ledbury and California! I hope you all had fun and enjoyed the route and even some of the devious clues and anagrams. Every question was answered by at least one Team, so the route must have been about right, I can assure you there was no fog last week when we set the route out.
You did well finding the treasures, but I’m not sure how some of your Jokes scored 4 out of 5, Neil’s standards are low..!!!
Special thanks to Rich C for helping organise the route, clues, results and drinking beer with me whilst you were all out enjoying yourselves, a tough job.
Congratulations Dave & Emily, scoring the same points as Chris & Fran, but beating them by 130,000 on the Tie Break question.
The Tie Break question was “According to www.ukpopulations.com what is the estimated population of Cheltenham in 2019. Have a guess yourself then check the link above
Hope to see you all soon, Quiz of the Year tonight at the Club and the 12-Car series resumes on Fri 17th Jan
Cheers
Jon S & Rich C
PS – “What did Santa do when he went speed dating”
“He pulled a cracker”
4 out of 5 ?
Christmas Cracker Driving Treasure Hunt
Christmas Cracker Driving Treasure Hunt
Friday 27th December
7:00pm
Start & finish at the Club, approx 25 to 30 mile easy to follow route – No maps required
Bring a torch
Prizes for all.
Dave Cooper Winter Series 2019/2020 – Round 2 results Friday 15th November
Thanks to the marshals on another cold and damp night; in no particular order they were: Glynis Langford, Dave Gregory and Rich Clayton, Paul Batting & Elaine Ward. Special thanks to Jeremy Cooper for his help with the route and putting the boards out, along with his partner Nicole manning controls.
Due to flooding we had a last-minute change to the route between TC4 and TC5 which would have gone via Roel Gate and through the Lower Harford Ford. Re-writing the Novice card was simple but the Expert card, which had the Ford as a ‘via’ changed to ‘avoid’ and SH176 changed from avoid to via meant that there was then a shorter route that missed the code-boards through Naunton. These boards have been deleted from expert results. A code-board in Cutsdean had been removed by a resident.
First overall, Rich Smith and David Evans had a fine run and dropped just 2 minutes into TC4 whilst Dave and Emily Evans were 4 minutes late into the same control, arriving just behind Rich and Dave as the minute rolled over.
Craig Owen and Tim Bell, from Ross-on-Wye, missed the board at Didbrook and another on the final triangle on the herringbone through Shipton Gorge. Jeff and Josh Wheeler missed the boards at Notgrove and the Shipton triangle. Newcomers Adam and Holly Lister did well to get all the time controls without a pre-marked map, albeit missing five code-boards. Kev Smith retired at TC5 following an argument with a bank that damaged the radiator.
Bob Blackstock & Jeremy Cooper
RS competition licence and permit fees for 2020
All
RIP: Alun “Lofty” Thompson – Lofty Recovery
Sad news: Relayed from an announcement on the Forresters Car Club page…
“For anyone who hasn’t heard We have lost Alun “Lofty” Thompson. Our thoughts are with the family and friends.”
For those who are unfamiliar with his considerable contribution to Motorsport, Alun, known as Lofty Revovery, has been there to rescue many stricken rallyists over the years. Many Cheltenham Motor Club, Cirecnester Car Club & EMCOS members will remember seeing Lofty recovery at all the Down Ampney & Wyedean rallies. He was also very often spotted out at classic car events.
The family have now made the arrangements for Alun’s funeral. It is on Wednesday 27th November 2019, 3pm at Langstone Crematorium.
The family ask that bright colours are worn to celebrate his life but if you wish to black that’s fine.
RIP Lofty
Dave Cooper Winter Series 2020 – Round 1
12 Car Nav-Ex – Friday 18th October 2019
Summer Series Round 5 – Results
Thanks to you all for coming out to the autotest last night, and what a turn out, I hope enjoyed it.
Thanks to the marshals Glynis & Paul.
The results are as below:
Rich S
Dave Cooper
Cheltenham Motor Club
It is very sad to announce the passing of Cheltenham Motor Club’s President, Dave Cooper.
Our condolences go out to his wife Kathy, sons Jeremy, Jonathan and Grandchildren.
Dave first became a member of CMC in 1971 and from the beginning played a big part in club activities. He was always organising and competing on motoring events far and wide, was an excellent rally navigator and sometime driver in his self-built ‘Gecko’. He became a senior steward for the national motor sports organisation Motorsport UK, was on CMC’s management committee for many years and became President in 2001. He was ever knowledgeable and helpful to new members and will be sadly missed by CMC’s committee and many others.
For those that knew him well and often saw him wearing shorts, even on the coolest of days, he suggested that you might also like to wear shorts if attending his funeral and celebration of his life, details below.
Cambray Baptist Church
Thursday 3rd October 2:30pm
Three Shires Stages – Midlands Air Ambulance Charity
Cheltenham Motor Club, organisers of the 7th September ‘Hills Ford Three Shires Stages Rally’, are pleased to report that we have donated £1000 to the Midland Air Ambulance on behalf of Eastnor Castle in respect of use of their facilities.
We have also donated £300 to the Midland Air Ambulance on behalf of Andrew Ruck and Charlotte Ashworth at Brockmore Farm who supplied bales for our event.
https://www.facebook.com/MidlandsAirAmbulance/
Newsletter Archives:
Here are a couple of direct links to give you an idea:-
Click here to access the other newsletters that have already been uploaded
We have extensive paper archives dating back almost 100 years, including information regarding events, regs, results, photos, newspaper cuttings, newsletters etc. We intend someday to upload onto the web, but it is a very laborious task. If you happen to have anything from our history, we would be happy to put it on the system. If possible send it to us as a PDF file, then it’s dead easy to upload. Also if anyone, with plenty of time on their hands, would like a nice little project to upload the information (even if it’s only a little bit)?