When opened July 1950, Castle Combe Circuit helped kick-start post war motor racing and went on to become one of the UK’s most popular and successful motor racing tracks, hosting many memorable national and international race meetings. During the last 70 + 2 years many aspiring racing stars have competed on the Wiltshire tarmac including Sir Stirling Moss, … [Read more...]
World Rally Car Era celebrated at Rallyday
Since inaugurated in 2001, Castle Combe-based Rallyday has established itself as the ‘Go To’ event for rally fans in the UK. This year the organizers of Europe’s biggest one-day rally show were mindful of the sad passing of our inspirational and much-loved monarch, her majesty Queen Elizabeth II, and a minute’s silence and black armbands some of the … [Read more...]
Jim Bamber’s Castle Combe tour de force!
In truth, there can be few similarities betweenCafé & Bar Hat Castle Combe motor racing circuit and the awe-inspiring Sistine Chapel at the Vatican in Rome, except perhaps one extremely tenuous link. The ceilings of both these very different establishments have been frescoed by famous artists, albeit 500 years apart and using very different genre and … [Read more...]
Voice of motor racing falls silent
For 45-years David George was probably the west country’s best known motor racing commentator, synonymous with Castle Combe Circuit where for 22-years he served as number-two to Richard ‘Dickie’ Davies, in a treaty DG relished. Always strangely uneasy about being cast in a lead role, DG initially called the action from a garden shed perched precariously on … [Read more...]
Rallyday – such a great day!
Since inaugurated in 2001, Castle Combe-based Rallyday has established itself as the ‘Go to’ event for rally fans and it's bounced back last weekend. As a result, the organisers of Europe’s biggest one-day 2021 rally show were determined to show rally fans what they’d missed for the last two years. Undoubted star of the show was Hyundai Shell Mobis WRC … [Read more...]
Castle Combe Circuit postpones events but not testing
Castle Combe Circuit, Chippenham has postponed all large public events planned at the Wiltshire venue in June. These will be rescheduled if possible but individual private test days will be possible by arrangement to ensure there is no overcrowding and participants meet social distancing guidelines. It means a race meeting planned for 13 & 14 June will … [Read more...]
Castle Combe celebrates golden jubilee
Easter Monday saw Castle Combe Circuit hold its annual Howard’s Day race meeting, commemorating Welshman Howard Strawford who saved the Wiltshire circuit as a motor racing venue in the 1970s before going on to build it into one of the UK’s leading club racing circuits, writes Peter Hughes. The event also celebrated the 50thanniversary of the circuit’s own … [Read more...]
Classic motorbikes racing this weekend
Although it’s now in its 40th successful year, the Classic Racing Motorcycle Club makes its first visit to Castle Combe on 6-7 April with a two-day nostalgia treat as it recreates the classic racing motorcycle scenes of the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s. The weekend features plenty of competitive action, including the opening rounds of the 2019 ACU National … [Read more...]
Welsh student helps with MG3 hottest hatch
A young Welsh female student is taking a leading role in a landmark motor sport event for the famous MG brand. Angharad Davies, from Llantrisant (right), is an engineering student at Bath University and is spending a year's placement with MG in Longbridge helping develop its new racing hot hatch. Last week, the MG3 low-cost racer built by MG Car Club and … [Read more...]
Racing lines 2 August
Recently-formed charity, Airfields of Britain Conservation Trust, was set up to help recognise the invaluable importance airfields have played in the past by erecting memorial marker stones at various key sites around the country. And it’s the turn of Castle Combe Circuit to receive one of these prestigious markers in 2018, which is set to be unveiled at … [Read more...]
