Peter Riches Ex Team Lotus, BTCC & British F1 GP Chief Scrutineer
2025-03-13 20:00 - 22:00 (Europe/London) | 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
Rally driver and circuit racer. British Historic Rally Champion 2024 . Regularly competes in the famous Lancia Stratos around Europe. Also has had much success with Porsche on the stages and circuits.

Perez successfully competes as a professional rally driver with the Kick Energy Rally Team in his many cars Including a 2007Ford Focus WRC (Ex Marcus Grönholm), 1974 Lancia Stratos, Porsche 911s (2003 Rally Championship Winner), 1975 Porsche SCRS, 1975 Datsun 240Z (Safari Rally Car), 1984 Audi Quattro, 2005 Ford Focus WRC (Ex Markko Märtin) and a 2007 Mitsubishi Evo 9 (Peru Rally).

History Of The Nene Valley Railway
2026-03-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
Our speakers on March 12th will be David Hands and Keith Alexander from Nene Valley Railway. They will be talking about the history of the line, and some of the events that have happened there.

After 37 years as an accountant / Finance Director, David spent 6 years as a Tourist Officer in Oundle Tourist Information Centre before retiring completely to concentrate on his volunteering roles with Duxford Aviation Society, Oxfam and Nene Valley Railway. His main focus now is NVR where he is part of the Museum and Archive Group, the Education team and two project working parties, the Overton Goods Yard project and Wansford Old Station Building project.
He has a lifelong interest in all forms of transport and is a member of National Transport Trust, North Norfolk Railway and Australian Motor Heritage Foundation.

Following a career of 44 years as a Civil Servant, Keith retired in 2019. Although volunteering for the NVR in the Museum and Archive Group 3 years earlier, he became the Honorary Museum Curator in 2021. In 2024 Keith started additional service at the NVR in the Education Team as the team leader was due to step down. Keith then became Leader in late 2024. Further developments at NVR include Peterborough City Centre historical walks centering on Peterborough North station and the old Spital Shed, Crescent Bridge, Sheet stores near Asda, Railworld and old LNWR shed and finally the old Peterborough East site and associated buildings at Fletton Quays. This includes a final slideshow of many archive photographs showing the locations visited.
Keith is a National Trust member, enjoys pub quizzes and is a very keen woodworker.

Peking to Paris in a 1910 White steam car - Chris Rolph
2026-04-09 20:00 - 22:00 | Lincolnshire
In 2019 Chris Rolph and Mitch Gross drove a 1910 40hp White Model MM steam car from Beijing to Paris as part of the reenactment of the original event won by an Itala in 1907.
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They drove for 5 weeks, over 8000 miles through 12 countries and 7 time zones. They had the engine out three times and the boiler once and overcome a myriad of problems and obstacles along the way. This is the story of their epic journey.

More people have walked on the moon than have undertaken this odyssey.

Drive It Day
2026-04-26 10:00 - 17:00 | Sainsbury’s Car Park, Exeter Street, Bourne, Sainsbury's Car Park, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9NW, United Kingdom
This year the plan is to visit the Romany Museum at Spalding entry £8-50, with the
possibility of lunch at The Ship at Pinchbeck if enough people are interested, cost 2 course lunch £24-00 or 3 course for £30-00 per head. I need to know numbers by or on the next club night Thursday 9th April in order to reserve a large table. You can message me on 07752375750 or see me at the meeting.
On Drive it Day we will meet in Sainsburys car park, Exeter Street, Bourne at 10am, you will be given the route and we will aim to depart by 10-20am.
I look forward to seeing you then and thank you for supporting the FBHVC and the NSPCC.
Cheers Peter Dobson ( Chevy Pete )

Richard Parramint - Classic Team Lotus
2026-05-14 20:00 - 22:00 | Lincolnshire
Our speaker will be Richard Parramint from Classic Team Lotus.

So Lotus has been a big part of my life thus far, since 1963 in fact at the age of 10 my brother and I decided that Team Lotus would be our team. There is a saying ‘if you can make a hobby your job you won’t work a day in your life’…..not strictly true as you will hear in some of the stories.
Working at Hethel in the 60’s as seen through the eyes of a 16 year old (in fact the first leaver to join Lotus).
Having to ask Colin Chapman for a cheque!
Gatecrashing a private Team Lotus F1 test session.
Collecting Lotus Memorabilia…….what is the most cherished?
Driving Mrs. Chapman……
What Graham Hill told me about the Lotus 64 after a lap of Hethel.
Classic Team Lotus ‘holidays’.

Ferrari - Race to Immortality
2026-06-11 20:00 - 22:00 | Lincolnshire
The 1950’s – the iconic Scuderia Ferrari battle to stay on top in one of the deadliest decades in motor racing history.
Cars and drivers were pushed to their limits, and the competition for the world championship meant racing on a knife edge where one mistake could take a life.
At the centre of it all was Enzo Ferrari, a towering figure in motor racing who was driven to win at any cost.
Amidst the stiff competition within his Ferrari team, two of its British stars, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn, put friendship first and the championship second.
Ferrari: Race to Immortality tells the story of the loves and losses, triumphs and tragedy of Ferrari’s most celebrated drivers in an era where they lived la dolce vita during the week and it was win or die on any given Sunday.

Social Evening
2026-07-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Lincolnshire
This meeting marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of the club.

Ian Moreton - Multimatic Special Vehicle Operations Europe
2026-08-13 20:00 - 22:00 | Bourne Corn Exchange, 3 Abbey Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, PE10 9EF, United Kingdom
Ian has a wide experience of Motor Sport and the automotive industry.
He started as an Apprentice Motor Technician at Ford Main dealer, and has since worked for Peugeot Talbot Competitions Dept – Rally Team, Rothmans Rally Team/ Prodrive Banbury, MG Sport and Racing, Lola Cars, and most recently Multimatic.
His current responsibilities include European Logistics for Ford GT build, and he will talk more about the story of the Ford GT 1996 – 2016.

Lunch at BRDC Silverstone
2026-08-15 08:00 - 17:00 | Silverstone Racing Circuit, Towcester, Northamptonshire, NN12 8TN, United Kingdom
Our President, Warwick Banks, will be hosting a lunch for Club members and their guests in the British Racing Drivers Club Suite at Silverstone.
More details and booking arrangements will be in Tracknotes.

Overland to Vietnam on a Matchless
2026-09-10 20:00 - 22:00 | Lincolnshire

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

TBA
2026-11-12 20:00 - 22:00 | Lincolnshire

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