Legends Cars are about to commence their tenth season of racing here in the UK at Oulton Park on Saturday 9th April.

This is our 8th time at the Cheshire circuit and the second season on the trot that the year’s opening round has been held here.  Legends racing sees a few subtle changes this season – the first being a new format which has been devised to accommodate more registrations.  Briefly the changes mean that there will be more Legends action as there will be at least four races per meeting (three heats each with two thirds of the entry and then the finals). 

We welcome two newcomers to Legends at Oulton Park – the first is Iain Holden who lives in Lancashire and is joining the Firth Steels Motorsport team.  Next up is former MG Owners Club Champion Nick Evans (Herts).  Several other drivers are graduating from the Scottish Championship into the UK National competition.  Leading these entries is reigning Scottish Champion Derek Pierce (East Kilbride).  Next up is Dave Newsham (Inverness) who was the top scorer at our Winter weekend last season and also won the final in our last National round i! n 2005.  Hexham’s Chris Grieve is the current Knockhill lap record holder and a multiple race winner.  Malcolm Clark (Newcastle) has two race wins to his credit whilst his nephew Dan has several podium finishes to his.  Also making the move into the National Championship is Inverness based racer Jeff Stewart.

Several drivers on the entry list have already enjoyed success at Oulton and could perhaps be touted as favourites for early season honours.  Previous race winners include – Ian Sturt (Ashtead) won the first ever Legends race at Oulton on 7th August 1999 – his second career win. Derek Pierce meanwhile won the opening race of last season. Peter Morton (Cleckheaton) and last year’s champ Oli Poyser (Gloucester) have won twice there, the latter winning his on his 100th Legends start last season, the former also having recorded three fastest laps.  The most prolific Oulton race winner of the current crop however is the returning ex double champion John ‘Jon’ Higgins (Chester) who has won three races there (and three fastest laps).  Both Peter and John were overall round winners on their last visits to the circuit with John holding the Island circuit lap record at 1.41.676 (83.63mph).

At the time of writing around thirty entries are expected for the opening round with the third heat on the day also being the 400th National Legends race held in the UK.