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The Original raison d'être of the Splendid Whizzer Association. What's on, where it is and what it was like last year. Note that appearance on this list is no guarantee that an event is not cancelled or indeed happening on that date. It's up to you to check with the event organisers before setting out. Contact numbers or web addresses are shown wherever possible.As ever, we'll be adding events and updating as much as possible throughout the year. At present the list looks like this: 2006: JANUARY: 1st January. New Years Day Car Clubs Meet, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Good fun with an eclectic mix of machinery all of which has just turned up to shake off the Christmas torpor - arrive in a nice car and they'll try and park you alongside appropriate neighbours. No stalls or special events, just a chance to rub shoulders with like-minded souls. 12 January. Torchlight Tour & Supper (Pre-booking required) Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 14 January VSCC Film Night & Dinner (Open to public, pre-booking essential) Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. www.vscc.co.uk or www.brooklandsmuseum.com 15 January VSCC New Year Driving Tests, Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey. www.vscc.co.uk or www.brooklandsmuseum.com Always fun, with the usual unique VSCC atmosphere. 15 January Cambridge Car Club Roger Holmes Memorial Production Car Trial http://homepage.ntlworld.com/clive.grounds/pct.html 20th-22nd January WRC Round 1 Monte Carlo. 25 January. Torchlight Tour & Supper (Pre-booking required) Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com FEBRUARY: 12 February. All Jaguar Spares Day. Farnham Maltings 15 February. Torchlight Tour & Supper (Pre-booking required) Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 24th/25th/26th February Historic Motorsport Show, Stoneleigh http://www.historicmotorsportshow.com/ Reasonably good show but a 20% price hike to £18 this year PLUS the £4 car parking charge make it daylight robbery. We were not amused.. 25th February. VSCC Pomeroy Trophy. Silverstone MARCH: 5 March. Goodwood Breakfast Club. Classic Sports Cars 8 March. Torchlight Tour & Supper (Pre-booking required) Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 12 March. Bentley Drivers Club Driving Tests. Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 18-19th March. London Classic Car & Bike Show. Alexandra Palace. Including Auction of the Gerry Marshall Motoring Library by Loveridge Auctioneers www.automobiliaauctions.co.uk 19 March. Morris Austin Day. Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com March 24-27, 2006, WRC Spain 26th March. Spring Restoration Show & Autojumble. Stoneleigh 26 March. Mini Festival. Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 29 March. Charity Track Day, Goodwood Motor Circuit, Chris Darwin is back with some more track days with a bias towards the wood, chrome and leather-equipped vehicle rather than moderns. That said, theres's a wide variety of stuff going round. Spectating is free. email c.darwin@virgin.net APRIL: 1 April. MG Xtreme Xpower rally rides , Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Xpensive but Xcellent (oh stop it..) 2 April. Goodwood Breakfast Club. Italian Sports Cars 6-9 April. Techno Classica, Essen. April 7-9, 2006, WRC France 8 April. VSCC Spring Start race meeting , Silverstone. www.vscc.co.uk 9 April. MG ERA (old and new). Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 14th April. ‘Wheels Day’. Rushmoor Arena. Aldershot , Hants. 16th - 17th April. Medway Festival of Steam & Transport, Chatham Historic Dockyard. http://www.chdt.org.uk A really enjoyable event, this one. Huge dockyard site is filled with Classic cars and bikes, plus steam rollers, traction engines and the dockside railway shunters (all in steam and running) plus buses, lorries, stationary engines, exhibits and sideshows etc. The Dockyard museum site itself, plus the Submarine, historic ships etc are also fully open so there's almost too much to do. 18 April . Charity Track Day, Goodwood Motor Circuit, Another Chris Darwin track day with a good spread of classic cars. Spectating is free. email c.darwin@virgin.net 23 April. Triumph 2000/2500/2.5 Register (Static) Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 28-30 April, 2006, WRC Argentina 29 April. Auto
Italia Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey
Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web
site www.brooklandsmuseum.com nice
car... preety car... MAY: 1 May . Emergency services "May Day" Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com If you know what a 'Simon Snorkel' is, you'll want to be here. 1st May. JDC Jaguar Track Day.. Goodwood 1st May Aero/Autojumble & Classic Vehicle Rally & Fly-in. Popham Airfield, near Micheldever, Hants. http://www.popham-airfield.co.uk. Gets bigger and better each year. 7 May. Goodwood Breakfast Club. Pre-War Sports Cars 7 May. MGCC Race meeting, Donington 7th May, “Best of British” car club day Duxford http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/server/show/conEvent.1087 13 May . Brooklands
"Noise Night" (Demos of vintage motorcycles,
barbecue, Jazz band etc.) Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932
857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web
site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 14 May. Mille Miglia, Italy 14 May MG Car Club Regency Run.Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 18-21 May WRC Italy 20 May MGCC Race meeting, Snetterton 20-21st May Beaulieu Spring Autoumble. 20-21 May Monaco Historic GP weekend, Monaco 21 May. VSCC Shuttleworth & Nuffield Trophies race meeting, Cadwell Park. www.vscc.co.uk 21 May . Association of Friends Of Brooklands Museum Car Concours day. Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 27th May. Enfield Pageant of Motoring 28 May . Mopar
Muscle Day (Dodges, Chryslers etc) Brooklands, Weybridge,
Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web
site www.brooklandsmuseum.com More
"Dukes of Hazzard" than the usual tweedy Brooklands atmosphere but
there's nothing wrong with that. We loved it last year. JUNE: 1-5th June. Jersey Festival of Motoring 3rd June. Classic & Sports Car Action Day. Castle Combe. (Provisional!) 3-4th June Biggin Hill International Air Show 3 June . VSCC Harewood hillclimb meeting , Harewood, Yorkshire. www.vscc.co.uk 4 June Goodwood Breakfast Club. Supercars 4 June. Test Day, Le Mans. www.lemans.org Find out who's going to be quick in a couple of weeks. 10 June. VSCC Boulogne & Hawthorn Trophies race meeting, Oulton Park. www.vscc.co.uk 11th June. British Grand Prix. Silverstone 25th June . Brooklands 'Fun Extravaganza', Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Don't know what this is but it's likely to be the usual mixture of vehicles and activities with the emphasis on children. 17th June Gurston Down Hill Climb 17 -18th June. Le Mans 24 Hours. www.lemans.org A multi-day festival of sleep deprivation, barbecues and motor vehicles. - oh, and there's a motor race in there too. If you've never been, see the features page for a taste.. 25th June . Brooklands
Society Reunion, Brooklands,
Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web
site www.brooklandsmuseum.com JULY: 1st July. Brands Hatch Superprix 1 July. MG Xtreme Xpower rally rides , Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Whizz around the banking in a full rally car. - And no, you don't get to drive! 2 July. VSCC Shelsley Walsh hillclimb meeting , Shelsley Walsh, Near Worcester. www.vscc.co.uk 2 July Goodwood Breakfast Club. Classic British Cars 7-9th July. Goodwood Festival of Speed. Goodwood House, near Chichester, Sussex. Expensive and crowded but still the best overall motor sport festival with an unrivalled variety of rare and exciting things to see. 7-9th July. Le Mans Classic weekend . Le Mans (which is in France). Very good meeting but you pobably want to be connected with a competitor to get the most out of it. Interesting that it clashes with Goodwood. 9 July. British Sports Car day , Brooklands Museum,Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Wire wheels, tweed jackets, oil leaks, you know the form. 15th July Classic Car Show. The Grange Centre, Great Bookham. Wha? 16th July Classic Hillclimb meeting. Shelsley Walsh. www.shelsley-walsh.co.uk/2006.htm 23rd July . Aero Auto Jumble, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com mmmm...titanium widgets.... 23 July. VSCC Bob Gerard Memorial Trophy meeting , Mallory Park, Hinkley, Cheshire. www.vscc.co.uk 23 July. Aero Auto Jumble , Brooklands Museum,Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Not sure if this means Aero and Auto jumble but it mst do, mustn't it? Anyway it's all useful. -I've got an aircraft boost gauge on my MG. 22-23rd July or following weekend?? Classic Prescott. Celebration of Coopers. 28th - 30July Silverstone Historic festival . Northants. 30th July . Brooklands at Home (provisional), Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com AUGUST: 1-5th August Great British Beer Festival. Earls Court 5-6th August . VSCC Prescott hillclimb meeting , Prescott, near Cheltenham, Glos. www.vscc.co.uk http://www.bugatti-trust.co.uk/bugatti-events/index.shtml The VSCC event of the year. Picnics, Castrol 'R' and incredibly rare cars. 6 August. Goodwood Breakfast Club. German Sports Cars 12 August. Hot Rod Hay Ride , Brooklands Museum,Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 12-13 August. Bonneville Speed Trials , Bonneville Salt Flats, near Wendover Utah USA. Head west out of Salt Lake City and take the only road which leads onto the big white flat bit. You can't miss it. 11-13 August, WRC Germany 27th August . Wings & Wheels at Dunsfold Park, Dunsfold. In association with Brooklands Museum. Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 18-20 August, WRC Finland ("Thousand Lakes") 18-20 August, Monterey Historic Festival Laguna Seca, California. Superb weekend of racing at a unique circuit. 20 August. VSCC Light section Driving Tests , Brooklands Museum,Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 27- 28 August Hampshire
Pageant of Motoring, Broadlands Romsey Hants. Classic cars
- veteran vehicles - commercial classics and buses - military vehicles
- SEPTEMBER: 1st-3rd September . Goodwood Circuit Revival meeting . Goodwood Motor Circuit, near Chichester, Sussex. Expensive and crowded like the Festival of speed but still very good. Too many sideshows can distract you. Don't neglect the racing which is superb to watch as everyone seems to be on eleven tenths! 1-3 September, WRC Japan 9th September. Brighton Speed Trials 9-10th September. International Autojumble. Beaulieu, Hants. The big UK event which brings the summer season to a close. Evocative smell of grass, rusty metal and frying onions 10 September . Italian Day , Brooklands Museum,Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Always fun with lots of beautiful and many rare cars as well as the Diablos etc. for the 10 year olds 10-22nd September. Angouleme Circuits Des Ramparts 17 September . Brooklands Re-Lived , Brooklands Museum,Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 21-22nd VSCC Track Day. Donington 21-24th September. Klausenrennen Hill Climb 23rd September SeeRed. Donington 24 September Totally MG, Epsom (at the racecourse I presume?) 23/24 September . Aston Martin Weekend, Brooklands Museum,Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com I'll be there. Call me Lord Brett Sinclair... 22-24 September, WRC Cyprus 23-24 September. VSCC See Red race meeting, Donington Park, Derbyshire. www.vscc.co.uk * 23-24th September . VSCC Loton Park hillclimb meeting, near Alberbury, Shropshire. www.vscc.co.uk * Hmmm.. two VSCC events on the same day. - Could be, but better check their web site nearer the date to check this isn't a mistake! 30 September. MG Xtreme Xpower rally rides , Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Whizz around the banking in a full rally car. - And no, you don't get to drive! 30 September MGCC race meeting, Brands Hatch. Kent. OCTOBER: 1 October. Goodwood Breakfast Club. Americana 1 October. Austin Healeys at Brooklands , Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com 4-7 October. Hershey Autojumble . USA. HUGE! Makes Beaulieu look like a church jumble sale. 8 October. Brooklands Morgan day, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Includes runs up the Test Hill. 13-15 October, WRC Turkey 21st October, VSCC Autumn Sprint, Goodwood 27-29 October, WRC Australia 27-29 October, National Classic Motor Show, NEC Birmingham NOVEMBER: 3-5th November. Classic Car Show. NEC 5th November. London to Brighton Veteran Car Run 8 November. Military Vehicles Day, Brooklands, Weybridge, Surrey Tel: 01932 857381 Email: events@brooklandsmuseum.com web site www.brooklandsmuseum.com Whizz around the banking in a full rally car. - And no, you don't get to drive! 10-12 November WRC New Zealand DECEMBER: 1-3December WRC Great Britain Our Rally Correspondent writes: YES! YES!! YES!!! DEEEEEE-CEMBER!!!! YES!!! IN THE COLD!!! AND THE WET!!!! AND THE WE-E-THER!!!! YEEE-HAH!!! 31st December. International Classic Car & British Motorcycle Restoration Show. Donington HOME---EVENTS---GARAGE---L.S.R.---GALLERY---FEATURES---SPARES---LINKS---CONTACT |
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