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HRDC at the Castle Combe Autumn Classic 2019

10/19/2019

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​On Friday 4th October, the largest OUMF team ever to journey to a race meeting set off. With two races at Castle Combe in the Riley 1.5 racer at the last HRDC races of the year, and a bodyshell to pick up from nearby, there was lots of excitement and anticipation from new and old members alike; what a weekend this was about to be! The Riley had been set up on Phillips Tyres superb laser alignment rig earlier in the day, and was ready to go. But first we had to get there…


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The Goodwood Revival 2019 - St. Mary's Trophy

10/3/2019

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​It was an early (-ish) Wednesday morning as the OUMF student race team pulled away from our shed in Oxford and set off for Chichester, with rising excitement. The team had been spending every spare moment there in the previous 4 weeks following the arrival of the unexpected 11th hour invitation from the Goodwood Revival selection committee to race the 1959 Riley 1.5 in the two part St Mary’s Trophy race. 


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Ypres Historic Rally 2019

8/12/2019

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The Oxford Universities Motorsport Foundation race team has further cemented its reputation as the top student team in historic motor racing and rallying by another giant killing triumph in Belgium in June in their well-known grey Riley 1.5. ​This year saw its 8th successive run in the Ypres Rally – one of the hardest and most prestigious annual stage rallies in Europe, with a global audience. 

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OUMF Student Team Invited to St. Mary's Trophy at the Goodwood Revival

8/11/2019

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The OUMF team are set to make history as the first student team to be invited to race in the St. Mary's Trophy at this year's Goodwood Revival.

After nearly 100 HRDC races, 50 trophies, two overall wins and an exciting Goodwood debut in the Jack Sears Trophy last year, the team received the call that the OUMF Riley 1.5 will take its place on the grid amongst the best historic saloon cars in the world. 

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Abingdon CAR-nival Stage Rally 2019

6/14/2019

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​All the hard work in preparing the OUMF Riley 1.5 over the previous few days paid off in spades on this very popular annual stage rally. The event is limited to 100 entries, and has no historic class, so our 1950's designed car was up against many professional teams and modern rally cars - like EVO's, M3's, Escort Mk2, Impreza's, Davrians, Gti's, etc - competing in 5 different National rally championships. 

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'Historics on the Hill' - The first all HRDC Race Meeting and OUMF's second outright victory!

6/12/2019

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​The OUMF team arrived with the Riley 1.5 racer for its first ever visit to Lydden Hill circuit in Kent, at lunchtime on the Sunday. Soon afterwards, James Martin and Aidan Challis joined us and we were set up in the paddock and the car was ready for an afternoon of free practice before the real races on the Monday, courtesy of Julius Thurgood who had mounted this landmark all-HRDC race meeting. 

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The Donington Historic Festival 2019

5/9/2019

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​After a very successful opening to our HRDC season at Silverstone, it was soon time to head back to the track for one of our most important events of the year, the Donington Historic Festival, for no less than three, 45-minute races – the most track time the Riley has ever faced at a single meeting.


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OMC 'April Fools' 12 Car Rally - 12th April 2019

4/29/2019

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On this rally, OUMF were represented by three crews: Oli Grantham and Isaac Jarmarkier in the Fiat Cinquecento; Luke Cozier and Rob Dawson in the BMW, and Ding, Andy Doyle and myself in the TOYO Golf.

We converged on the HQ and completed all the pre-rally checks on cars and equipment in good time, and we were ready to go to Brackley for the start of the rally…but Andy was running late. In the end, with Oli and Isaac requiring their maps to be marked by the organiser before the start, they and the BMW had to set off for Brackley, leaving the Golf waiting for it’s co-driver.

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HRDC Silverstone 2019 - 'Twin Wins' to start the season!

4/24/2019

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Ready to go for the 2019 season!
​A successful Goodwood test day, thanks to Julius Thurgood and Duncan Pittaway, and meticulous attention to detail during the week leading up to Silverstone meant that when we arrived at the circuit on Saturday evening, the Riley car was pretty much ready to go - and we could concentrate on securing an OUMF pit garage

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‘Right said Fred’ 12 Car Rally - 8th Feburary

2/14/2019

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​It was a cold and windy night in Wendlebury, a village deep in the rural heart of Oxfordshire, when two OUMF rally crews splashed up the main street. The solid twelve hours of rain leading up to the event had left the ground undesirably wet and caused a number of large puddles to form on the road. Fortunately, the Sign-in and Drivers Briefing were held inside The Lion pub. Perfect for picking up a pre-race snack and drink; an extremely crucial step to success. As were the three whole packets of Jaffa Cakes that we picked up during a fuel stop while we headed to the rally. We arrived at the pub at around quarter to seven, as we had to get our OS road maps attended to by the organiser, and were welcomed by friendly remarks from fellow competitors – many aimed at Ding about actually being on time for once.

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