Bourne Motor Racing Club

Julian Bronson Historic Racing
2024-11-14 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | Lincolnshire
Our speaker at our meeting is Julian Bronson.
Julian started his motorsport career in 1966 with a five pound Hillman Minx competing in figure of eight and grass track racing. He soon progressed through to rallying with a wide variety of competitive cars right up to present day.
In 1988 he decided to go into historic motor sport, built the Riley Blue Streak Special, one of the most successful cars in the VSCC (Vintage Sports Car Club). It still holds records on some of the UK Hill Climbs for Pre-War Sports Cars and remains in his ownership.
Julian and his great friend Mac Hulbert, became joint custodians of the famous ex Raymond Mays ERA R4D and also jointly owned the HWM Jaguar VPA9.
His talk will explore his exploits in BRDC Sports Car Class events and at the Monaco Historic Grand Prix, winning four times receiving the honour of life time membership of the prestigious Automobile Club de Monaco.
Julian has also been a regular entrant at Goodwood Revival campaigning his beloved 1960 Scarab-Offenhauser F1 with three wins to his credit.
A career highpoint was being asked to drive a 1958 Ferrari Testarossa at the Sanoma Raceway in California.
So we can look forward to another highly entertaining night at the Corn Exchange, don’t miss it.

James Toseland Tickets
2024-12-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
We regret to advise you that all seats for this event have now been booked.

Our guest is James Toseland, a former two-times World Superbike champion, rock star and TV presenter.
He has included a visit to Bourne on his current UK tour “An Evening with James Toseland”, giving our audience the opportunity to gain an insight into his career as a racer, rock star , TV commentator and pundit.
Toseland won the 2004 and 2007 WorldSBK titles with Ducati and Honda respectively and claimed 16 victories and 57 podiums over the course of nine seasons. He also spent two seasons competing in MotoGP with Tech 3 Yamaha.
James retired from racing in 2011 in the wake of a series of injuries sustained on his return to the World Superbike series with Yamaha and BMW.
In 2020 he became the team manager for the Czech based Wepol Racing Yamaha team with their rider Danny Webb.
In recent years James as been a commentator and pundit on the Superbike championship with Eurosport/Discovery.
An accomplished keyboard player and vocalist he pursued his music career forming his band Toseland. His first album was released in 2104 which received outstanding reviews.The band have toured all over the UK and Europe, besides their own headline shows they have appeared along with guest sets including Status Quo, Aerosmith, Deep Purple
The event will include discussion on his motorbike racing career spanning multiple titles, live acoustic performances of his classic songs, and a question and answers session.
Members should make their reservations as soon as possible as we expect that there will be considerable interest from the general public once the event has been publicised and we are limited by the seating capacity of The Corn Exchange. Booking your seat via the button below will send you an email confirming your reservation. You will need to present this at the door, together with your current BMRC membership card to gain free access.
Subject to available space, reservations will also be accepted from non members of the club. Guest admission, with a reservation, at this meeting will be £15, payable at the door (Cash only please).

Peter Digby Chairman British Racing Drivers Club
2025-01-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
Peter has been a director of the BRDC board since 2021 and is a former chairman of the Motorsport Industry Association. He recently negotiated and secured a 10 year extension to host the Formula One British Grand Prix at Silverstone.
He previously was at the helm of transmission maker Xtrac who build transmissions for a large share of the global motorsport market.

Steve Soper Sports & Touring Car Racing Driver
2025-02-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
Steve has raced in major sports and touring car races, at the very forefront of these highly competitive sectors of motorsport.
His major successes include winning multiple British Saloon Car & Touring Car Championship races. In Sports Cars the 24 Hours at Le Mans and Nurburgring winning in 1987, also at Spa in 1992 & 1995.
Steve’s incredible career encompasses a long association with BMW and fast Fords.

Peter Riches Ex Team Lotus, BTCC & British F1 GP Chief Scrutineer
2025-03-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
Our guest is Peter Riches, the holder of the HRH Prince Michael of Kent Award of Merit, the highest Motorsport UK honour given in recognition of his service to motorsport.
His tenure associated with the British Grand Prix covers 45 years of which 35 years was as the Chief Scrutineer of the event.
His involvement in the sport dates back to the 1970’s with Lotus in the management of their engineering and technical development with the Car Division and the Formula 1 team.
From the 1980’s his long career as a Scrutineer and FIA Technical Delegate encompassed Formula Ford, Formula 3, Touring Cars on an National and International level and of course Formula 1 at Silverstone.
He remains actively involved in Motorsport and has just returned from Asia and Australia.
A unique opportunity to hear of his considerable knowledge and experiences.

Richard Cross British Tractor Pulling Association
2025-04-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
The BTPA organises the spectacle of the best in high-powered tractor pulling events across the UK. A spectacular and often unpredictable sport with 11 different classes up to 10,000hp+!!
Richard Cross the clubs Vice Chairman has an extensive experience in competing and promoting the sport. His day job is a director of an agricultural dealership with 30 years in the farm machinery industry,

Guy Loveridge Chair Northern Guild Motor Writers & Goodwood Commentator
2025-05-08 20:00 - 22:00 | Lincolnshire
Guy has been involved with events in motorsport for over 30years, including racing all around the UK having held a competition licence since 1993.
A former chairman of the Guild of Motoring Writers (2014-16), and currently Chair of the Northern Guild of Motor Writers. Guy published his first motoring book in 2000 and has written over a dozen since then.
He’s also received the Guild’s Peugeot Motorsport Cup in 2015, and the Malcolm Jeel Award from the Society of Automotive Historians in Britain in 2019.
Guy also finds the time to commentate at motoring and motor racing events all over the country, including Goodwood Revival and is currently organiser of The Holme Moss Centenary events. He also presents television and radio programmes, and has appeared on Wheeler Dealers.

BRM Heritage Evening Celebrating The Life of Richard ‘Dick’ Salmon
2025-06-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
Celebrating The Life of Richard ‘Dick’ Salmon (1925-2025)
Former BRM Formula 1 Mechanic.
Born in Irnham, the son of the village postmaster and his wife, who ran the village shop, Dick grew up with a fascination for things mechanical and left school at 14 to work in local garages.
Keen to serve his country, he joined the Home Guard at age 16 and received his army call-up in 1944. Service in various parts of the Middle East broadened his mind considerably, and like many others of his generation, he wasn’t too keen on the prospect of an ordinary office or factory job following his ‘demob’ in 1947.
Initially, Dick returned to working in a local garage, but in 1950, a friend’s tip-off about an opportunity at BRM, led to his being one of the first people employed by Raymond Mays.
Dick immediately showed great initiative and was soon promoted to a Mechanic’s role in the Racing Team. There followed 15 years of travelling the world, working with and for many of the greatest drivers of the era. The pinnacle of Dick’s career was undoubtedly serving as Graham Hill’s mechanic in 1962, the year of BRM’s World Championship triumph.
With family responsibilities pressing, Dick stepped back from the Formula 1 team in 1965 and later took up the offer of a job with Lotus, testing production cars. By the early 80’s, Dick had become a partner in a successful car restoration business, based in Billingborough.
Finally, at the stage in his life where pipe and slippers would beckon most men, Dick turned his ever-active mind to writing; producing two excellent books, relating the intertwined stories of his own life and the rise and fall of BRM.

Summer Social Event
2025-07-10 19:00 - 21:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
In July we will be running our annual Summer Social event.
A chance to meet up and chat with other members.
If you have an “interesting” vehicle, whether modern or vintage, bring it along to the display.
The bar will be open and a finger buffet available during the evening.

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 | 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 | Lincolnshire

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 | Lincolnshire

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

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

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

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