Simon's Blog

After July's return to selling at events post-covid, August brought a return to just spectating for the fun of it. Thanks to a last minute ticket (many thanks Roy, Elinor & Clive!) I found myself wandering among the leafy Prescott paddock under cloudless...

A little later than hoped, the Blog is back after a few technical issues. It was also a case of being back in our natural habitat...a bookstall at a motor sport event, despite the media's obsession that it would be so hot that weekend we'd all die!

FIRST POSTED 17th May 2022. One of the numerous series now getting full live-streaming on-line. The ELMS offers blisteringly fast, close racing in three classes with a few ex F1 drivers on the grid and a host of emerging talent.

FIRST POSTED May 2nd 2022. Continuing our occasional theme of snatching defeat from the jaws of victory (well... a good result, anyway!) we present the story of the 2022 Lands End Trial as probably the best example yet...sadly!

FIRST POSTED February 18th 2022. Finally reaching the top of possibly the most famous trials hill of them all, at the second attempt and 90 years after Simon's Grandmother reached the summit on the pillion of a motorcycle!