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April 26th Aintree Test/Track Day – marshals needed!

April 7th, 2025 • By: Chairman • Aintree, Barbon, Events, News, trackdays

The 26th April Track Day is full and bookings have closed.

It’s the nearest thing you’ll see to full circuit car racing right here on Merseyside!
Amongst the wide selection of cars entered for this Saturday’s Aintree Test/Track Day are a McLaren M1a (see photo), a TVR Tuscan (photo), a full race Morgan sports car, an F1 Lola Haas and, of course, a whole range of saloon and sports cars.

Spectators are welcome. Adult admission is just £5 (accompanied under 16s get in free). Gates open at 7am, the action starts on track at around 9:15am and continues until around 4:30pm, with just a 45-minute break for lunch.
Parking is free, and spectators have free access to view the cars resting in the paddock between runs.
The golf centre cafe in the paddock serves hot and cold drinks & food all day from 7:30am.

And we are still looking for marshals to help our loyal team of regulars… previous experience not essential, see the marshals’ tab via the LMC website link above for more info and to volunteer.
We give each marshal £15 towards their lunch and travel costs, you’re guaranteed a 45min lunch break too.

 

Group 1 (Novice/Quick) FULL

Group 2 (Intermediate/Quicker) FULL

Group 3 (Expert/Quicker still) FULL

Group 4 (Single Seaters/Racing cars)

This is a fantastic opportunity to test at the start of the season particularly if you have a single-seater or sports racing car. And it’s a fraction of the cost of testing at Oulton Park!

We run sessions of 10 minutes each, so you’ll be on track every 50 mins which is great for making and testing adjustments.

For more info, just click on the track days tab.

 

Updated 23/4/2025
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At Last! We’ve opened registrations for the 2025 LMC Speed Championship!

March 25th, 2025 • By: Chairman • Aintree, Barbon, Bulletins, Events, Hillclimb, News, regs, sprint

We’ve finally received the permit for our 2025 LMC Speed Championship, so we have opened registrations. Will you join us?

For more info and to register, click here:- www.speedchampionship.com

 

Page updated 25/3/2025
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Entries are open for our Aintree Sprints and Barbon Hillclimbs

March 10th, 2025 • By: Chairman • Aintree, Barbon, Bulletins, Events, Hillclimb, News, regs, sprint

We’re now accepting entries for our Aintree Sprints and Barbon Hillclimbs

For information about the Aintree Sprints, go to:our Aintree Sprints page
For the Barbon Hillclimbs, go to our Barbon Hillclimbs page

Sadly, the Aintree Sprints are not attracting sufficient competitors to cover the cost of running them. So we are only running two sprints in 2025 in the hope that we gain more competitors for each one to help cover the costs.

We need your entry to help keep motorsport alive at Aintree.

We hope you will join us in 2025.  The message is simple, use it or lose it!

 

2025 ENTRY FEES
The cost of running our sprints has risen dramatically in recent years. Of your £133 entry fee, £33 goes straight to MSUK, so we retain just £100 from each competitor towards running the event. It now costs us nearly £14,000 to stage a sprint at Aintree after you include circuit hire, medical cover MSUK event fees etc. And we have to pay for track repairs too!

Divide those expenses by the entry fee, and you will see that we need well over 120 competitors to break even. Last year we averaged just 89 competitors at each sprint, so no wonder we ran at a loss in 2024.

We know that everyone is finding it difficult to balancing their finances. Liverpool Motor Club is run entirely by volunteers and does not benefit from any external funding. But we shall hold our entry fees at 2024’s level for another year in the hope we can attract more competitors.

Please spread the word that to keep running motorsport events at Aintree and Barbon we need every competitor we can find. As we’ve said above ….. Use it or lose it!

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Updated 10/3/2025
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Volunteer Competition Secretary STILL Needed – can you help?

January 23rd, 2025 • By: Chairman • Aintree, Barbon, Events, Hillclimb, News, sprint

Situation Vacant – Competition Secretary

We are still looking for a volunteer to take on the role of Competition Secretary.

The role isn’t particularly time-consuming but is vital to ensure we attract sufficient competitors to make our events financially viable. Most of the early season work for 2025 is already done, so why not give something back to your sport by helping your club for the rest of the year?

The role involves:

  • Contacting other championships, inviting them to include our sprints and hillclimbs as qualifying rounds of their championships (4 events)
  • Contacting other clubs to invite their members to take part in our sprints & hillclimbs (4 events)
  • Obtaining copies of the MSUK permits from those championships that have accepted our invitations
  • Emailing our event results to participating championships (4 events)
  • Updating the LMC Committee monthly with progress

The volunteer is not required to attend events and everything can be done remotely, almost entirely by email.

David Drucker, the retiring Championship Secretary, is happy to guide the new volunteer throughout the first year.

The volunteer is not obliged to attend Committee meetings either, though we would welcome them to become a committee member if they were interested in getting further involved with running the Club.

For further information (without obligation) or to volunteer, please contact David Drucker or LMC Chairman, John Harden via our Contact Us page.

updated 23/1/2025
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Well done – you’ve raised over £8,000 for North West Air Ambulance charity!

January 6th, 2025 • By: Chairman • Aintree, Events, News, sprint, trackdays, Uncategorized

Thank You!

By adding a donation to your entry fee for our events at Aintree, plus the raffle held at our annual awards ‘do’ in November, we have passed on to the North West Air Ambulance Charity the magnificent sum of £8,000 over the past few years. (We send the full amount of your donations, the Club covers all payment charges.)

The charity is funded entirely by donations and doesn’t receive any financial support from the government or local authorities. It is extremely grateful to have received your donations.

Here’s a note of thanks from the Charity regional fundraiser:-

December 2024
Dear John and everyone at Liverpool Motor Club,

I wanted to personally thank you and everyone at the Liverpool Motor Club for your incredible ongoing support. With your latest fundraising efforts for 2024 (£1,225), you’ve helped raise an astounding total of £8,175 for your local air ambulance. This generosity allows us to continue flying to save lives across the North West region, 365 days a year.
Because of you all, the North West Air Ambulance Charity is able to fly the most advanced medical crew and equipment to people when and where they need it the most. In 2023, we responded to 406 incidents in Merseyside alone. We bring the hospital to the patient and can provide surgical interventions, blood transfusions, and deliver lifesaving procedures at the roadside to increase the chance of survival and make a lifesaving difference.

Many people in the North West would not be here today without the North West Air Ambulance Charity, and we are only here because of people like you. We receive no government or NHS funding to carry out the vital life-saving work that we do, and we must raise over £18m to operate and attend the 3,000 incidents we are called to each year.
On behalf of our crew, and the patients whose lives you’ve helped save — thank you. Your support is truly invaluable.
Best wishes,
Rhianna McDermott
Regional Fundraiser

If you are interested in finding out more about the work we do across the North West and how your money is making a difference, please visit www.nwairambulance.org.uk or follow us on social media.

updated 06/01/2025
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