Banbury Control - Monte Carlo Rally Historique 2020

[threespires]

The Glasgow starters will be in Banbury Control on Thursday 30th January. There will be a large display of classics.

[A993LAD]

Cheers for the heads-up

Any idea where I can find the route south from banbury?

Edited by A993LAD on Sunday 26th January 21:53

[john2443]

https://acm.mc/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/3.-GLASG...

But at the moment there are only 2 cars starting from Glasgow as far as I can tell, so not really worth hanging about at the side of the road to watch them pass!

[A993LAD]

john2443 said:

https://acm.mc/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/3.-GLASG...

But at the moment there are only 2 cars starting from Glasgow as far as I can tell, so not really worth hanging about at the side of the road to watch them pass!

Oh dear only 2 is a surprise. I remember seeing quite a few heading down the A1 for this event a few years ago.

Any idea how many will be setting off from Banbury?

[Riley Blue]

There are two events, the MC Historique and the Classique, running concurrently. Here's the Classique entry:

https://acm.mc/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/liste-cl...

[Bob CD]

Taking place this week is the mainly Dutch-organised Winter Trial, which started from Prague at the weekend. So it's kind of busy in the classic rallying world at the moment. Re the Monte Carlo and Glasgow, I've been looking at some of the entries from the late fifties, early sixties, and there seemed to be maybe 50 or 60 starters from Glasgow. It was all a wonderful bit of fun, drive down to Monte in the snow. One year, they included Vanwall driver Tony Brooks in a London taxi! One story has it that he had to retire because he was getting all the publicity...

[RONV]

I bet this will be a control we were here in May last year we had a buffet put on for our Motor club by the trustees