A pretty interesting article on piston heads. I personally think its a great idea being able to do this again. It would breath life back in to communities and being people together.

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default....aign=newsletter

Hill climbing is a wicked little event, cheap motorsport too

Ace

I do hope people can setup their cars to sustain pothole smashes

Need of a fat tyre Jack

I've filled out a document and emailed it back, I've always wanted this to happen.


Hopefully they'll do it on the one road where a pothole doesn't exist...

Is there one duncan? Haven't seen one of those in a long time!

Surely with potholes it just a normal off road rally

Changed that for you

Hmmm... I think I'll be sending off an email in support.

There's 11 questions to respond to, but apparently questions 1-5 are the most important ones. I've quoted them below so people can view the info in one place. If you are going to respond there are some answers you can copy and paste into your email on page 4 here: http://www.msauk.org/uploadedfiles/newsletter/ClosedRoads.pdf

Respond by email to: msc@culture.gsi.gov.uk (by 5:00pm, 10th April 2014)

Result!

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/motorsport/closed-road-motorsport-approval-for-britain/36077

Be interesting to see who takes adavantage of the change in the law.

My local club has already considered closing a road to do autotests as they're struggling to find venues on private land.

Apparently it would have cost £600 to close a road ?? but they decided it was too much. It would have been about £30 extra on the entry fee which actually isn't too bad, as only a small bit of road would be needed for autotest.

Not sure how locals will react to this kind of thing though, I can't imagine everyone would be happy about having a road closed so some old Micras can drive around cones doing handbrake turns for a day
Same for hillclimbs, sprints and rallies too I imagine, as people aren't used to it.