As someone who is restoring a 998cc Davrian Imp as a road-legal racer, I want somewhere to race against other small-engined cars, for fun but with a chance of doing well.  I basically have a 3 year plan to bring about a race series for 1-litre sports and saloon cars.  I've never organised a race meeting, let alone a series, and I'm not naive enough to think that it'll be easy, but rather than setting up a series and then casting around for interested people to take part (which seems the normal way to do it), I'm reversing the process.  If over the first two years we can demonstrate that we have 20 or more really committed drivers (who knows, maybe 30, 40, 50, or more.....) then we can take that interest to the existing motor sports organisations as a viable series for someone to promote.  The plan is as follows:


Year 1 (2009) - launch the society, generate interest, get publicity, develop this website.

Year 2 (2010) - continue to generate interest, start talking to motor sport clubs about the possibility of some 1-litre racing.

Year 3 (2011) - hopefully get a group of 20 or more pre-1980, sub 1-litre cars onto a grid, including my newly restored Davrian, if I ever finish it!!

If like me you have an old sports or saloon car with a small engine which you want to race, you may be put off by the cost of racing and the limited opportunities to race a smaller engine car with any chance of overall race victories.  Many race series have a class system which caters for smaller cars but these normally involve racing against many larger, more powerful, faster vehicles.  Certain smaller volume, more specialised cars (my Davrian included), struggle to fit into the regulations for many series and in some cases are legislated against due to their legendary capabilities.  The days of dedicated races for 1000cc saloons and small capacity sports cars seem to be long gone.  Let's try to bring it back.

Regulations for the series (updated December 2009):

Following much discussion and consultation with members, the draft regs are available by clicking here.

Note that we have three sub-classes, including class C which exists to allow engines between 1000-1100cc to run.  The regs have been designed to allow maximum participation, especially from those who already run racing cars in other series but who would love to race against similar small capacity cars, which was the original aim of the HTS