MiniSpares Rally Team go “Back to school“ at Reepham High inNorfolk

Peter Horsburgh and Mark Banham from Kings Lynn and District Motor Club took their rally cars to Reepham High school to assist Richard Egger from “Go Motorsport” in his talk to pupils on how to get involved in motorsport and outline the career opportunities in the Motorsport industry which employs over 50,000 people in the UK.

Over 50 students from the school in the age range 14 to 18, volunteered to attend the presentation and view the cars to find out more about what is available and how they can participate in motor club activities from as young as 12 to 14. Motorsport only survives due to the large number of volunteers who do the vital tasks of marshalling on all types of event from small gymkhanas to large scale stage rallies and circuit races.

The students were shown the differences between normal road cars and fully prepared rally cars in terms of safety equipment, special seats and seat belts ,roll cages ,fire extinguishers and navigation lights, clocks and tripmeters. The MiniSpares Mini Cooper S was attracting a lot of interest with its full stage rally set-up.

Some students were already taking part in for example Land Rover trials, others will be going home and saying “ Dad you have got to get the RS 2000 out the garage and use it - I can navigate for you !”

Hopefully in the next months we will have a few responding and joining the club to get involved in our activities.

For more information see article in Eastern Daily Press.

Importation rules regarding vehicles are very specific: Only those over 25 years in age may be brought in to the USA without compilance to Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS).