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| AMOC has always had popular races, now the new company seems set to take these races further in 2012 and beyond |
Aston Martin club racing is set to
flourish next year, now that AMOC, the Aston Martin Owners’ Club,
has taken the major decision to run all its racing events under a
new, independent company – Aston Martin Club Racing Ltd. And to
ensure that the club’s racing goes from strength to strength, the
new company (AMCR Ltd) has in turn appointed Duncan Wiltshire of
Historic Promotions Ltd to promote and administer the racing
programme.
Wiltshire is the man behind both
historic race organisation Motor Racing Legends (which runs four
prestigious race series, plus the historic support race at the Le
Mans 24 Hours) and the Donington Historic Festival. And Wiltshire now
has big ambitions for AMCR’s racing programme:
“It’s the perfect time to
reinvigorate AMOC’s club racing, when the 2013 centenary of Aston
Martin is just over the horizon. AMOC has a fabulous racing heritage
and we want to make sure that 2012 sees the club’s racing programme
start to regain the energy, vitality and packed grids it richly
deserves – and which have perhaps lapsed in recent years. Racing
will, of course, be centred around Aston Martins, combined with the
vital support of other invited clubs and grids.”
The full AMCR race calendar is
currently being confirmed, but Aston Martin Club Racing is planning
race events at Silverstone on April 29th; Oulton Park in
Mid-May; Brands Hatch on June 4th or 5th;
Donington on July 28th and Snetterton on October 6th
– with everything from the Aston Martin GT4 Challenge, through
pre-66 cars and right back to the pre-War era. AMCR will continue to
run the long-established and highly respected St. John Horsfall
Meeting – plus one of the longest-running championships in the UK,
the Intermarque, with the popular team format which pits Aston
Martin against Jaguar, Morgan, Porsche, Ferrari, Sunbeam, Healey and
the rest of the world.
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