Lunch at BRDC Silverstone
2025-08-09 | Silverstone Racing Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 8TN, United Kingdom
Our President, Warwick Banks is hosting a lunch at the BRDC suite, Silverstone on Saturday 9 August.
On track that day is the Bentley Drivers Club Summer event featuring racing with these classic English cars.
The costs of the two course lunch will be £40 per person and this includes admission to the circuit, parking and use of the BRDC suite during the day.
Please register your interest by emailing tracknotes@bournemotorracingclub.co.uk.

Andrew Osbourne Solo Atlantic Rower
2025-08-14 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
In 2023 Andrew Osborne rowed 3000 miles solo across the Atlantic totally unsupported, to raise funds for cardiac risk in the young. Row for Amy, his daughter who died aged 24, is a charity to get young people tested or undiagnosed heat conditions. Fascination account of endurance and how to persevere under pressure.

Italian Evening
2025-09-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
We will be showing the acclaimed documentary “Vincenzo Lancia and the Birth of Modern Motoring”.

We also plan to have a display of Italian cars in the car park. More details and how to book your entry to follow.

This meeting will be a ticketed event with free admission for BMRC members and £10 for guests.

Lancia typified the spirit of the age. At the turn of the 20th century, the motor car fired the imagination like few other inventions.
He was 18, son of an entrepreneur, and living in Turin, a buzzing city reinventing itself as a capital of industry.
In the right place at the right time, he seized his opportunity, first as a test driver for the nascent Fiat and then as their daredevil racing driver, helming mighty machines to the delight of crowds on both sides of the Atlantic.
was a young man with grand designs and in 1906, the famous racer established his own motor company. Not to build racing cars, but to make cars of a certain quality and drivability uncommon at the time.
With his small team of talented engineers, against a backdrop of world war and political upheaval, Lancia embraced unorthodox thinking, listened to his customers and contemplated the ‘total’ car.

Within just 16 years, his quiet revolution was complete, with the creation of the Lancia Lambda, a vehicle so innovative and advanced, it set the agenda for the modern motor car.
A feat he achieved again 15 years later, with the Aprilia, a year before his premature death.
Today Lancia is celebrated worldwide as one of the great Italian marques and for its legendary rally conquests over the last 25 years of the previous millennium.
However, few remember its founding father and how he paved the road to the future.

Richard Jenkins
2025-10-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
An evening with Richard Jenkins, Award winning Motorsports writer
Our speaker is Richard Jenkins: Richard is an award-winning author and motor racing historian who writes for oldracingcars.com and is known for well-researched books such as Richie Ginther: Motor Racing’s Free Thinker, Mike Spence: Out Of The Shadows and Tyrrell: The Story Of The Tyrrell Racing Organisation.
His first book, Richie Ginther, won both the RAC Motoring Book Of The Year Award and the Guild of Motoring Writers Award. For his presentation, Richard will give a talk on the lives of Richie Ginther and Mike Spence, with particular emphasis on their time at BRM.

Ian Titchmarsh and Peter McFadyen
2025-11-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
For our November meeting, we look forward to an illustrated talk from the formidable double-act of Ian Titchmarsh and Peter McFadyen.
Ian commentated on his first race in the mid-70’s and was a journalist and motorsports fan for many years before that. Having been principal commentator at Silverstone from 1983 to 2015 and covered races at virtually every other UK circuit, he’s a familiar and knowledgeable voice to anyone who has attended race meetings during the last half-century. In his other endeavours, he’s been part of the Radio Le Mans team, a Director of the BRDC and Lead Judge in the Racing category at the 2024 RAC Historic Awards.
Peter has been photographing motorsport since the 1960’s and his work has appeared in many books, including the leading motorsports annual ‘Autocourse.’ For many years, he contributed pictures and race reports from Oulton Park, Aintree, Donington and other UK circuits; to ‘Autosport’ and ‘Motorsport (formerly Motoring) News.’ He has published two books on racing at Oulton Park and has raced his Lotus Elan in the Classic Sports Car Club’s ‘Swinging Sixties’ series. He remains an active member of the Lotus Drivers Club.

Les Thacker and Paul Tarsey
2025-12-04 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
The speakers this evening will be Les Thacker from BP Fuels Motorsport and Paul Tarsey, Le Mans commentator.

Note This meeting is a week earlier than usual.
Les Thacker
On leaving the army in 1963, Les was recruited by Shell-Mex & BP and began a career in the oil industry; initially in the Sales & Marketing Division and later reinstating BP to the motorsports scene. As BP’s Motorsports Manager, he helped establish the careers of Derek Warwick, Martin Brundle, Johnny Dumfries and others.
Throughout his career, Les remained a camera-carrying enthusiast at heart. The privileged access, afforded by his position, gave him marvellous opportunities to amass a huge motorsports photography archive. A selection of these images, with commentary by Paul Tarsey, will form the basis of our entertainment on Thursday 4th December.
Paul Tarsey
Coming from a family with strong motorsports connections, it was inevitable that Paul would become involved in the sport. Realising that he didn’t quite have the talent of his boyhood hero, Stirling Moss, a career behind the microphone beckoned.
Paul’s first event, as commentator, was the 1984 Willhire 24hr race at Snetterton. He progressed from this to specialising in 24hr events, including Le Mans, Daytona and Paul Ricard.
In addition to his commentary work, Paul founded and runs the Historic Racing News website.

John Barker
2026-01-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom

Seb Perez - Rally Driver
2026-02-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom

Nene Valley Railway
2026-03-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom

Peking to Paris in a steam car - Chris Rolph
2026-04-09 20:00 - 22:00

TBA
2026-05-14 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-08-13 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-09-10 20:00 - 22:00, 2026-11-12 20:00 - 22:00

The history of Aintree racing circuit
2026-06-11 20:00 - 22:00

Social Evening
2026-07-09 19:00 - 21:00

Lawrence Bleasdale - Mintex
2026-10-08 20:00 - 22:00

TBA - One week earlier than usual
2026-12-03 20:00 - 22:00
