Welcome to the St Neots Autograss Club. We are primarily a social club, with a bias towards Autograss Racing. The club is organised on a totally voluntary basis, with a lot of members putting in a great deal of their own time and effort to promote Autograss Racing to a professional standard in this area. The club needs all your help to survive and flourish and will in turn attempt to satisfy you with a source of enjoyment and entertainment for all the family.

 

1. In order to continue our success, and to help everyone to work together, we have had to impose a few rules:
2. Drivers are expected to assist in setting up facilities on days preceding race days.
3. A free gate pass for the race meeting will be issued to each person who has attended the pre-meeting track erection.
4. A St Neots Club Open race will be held at each race meeting, counting towards a season long championship. Only St Neots club members who have attended the pre-meeting track erection are eligible to take part in this race.
5. On race days all club members who sign on to race will surrender their licences until the end of the meeting, when the track and fascilities have been dismantled and packed away. A fine of £10 will be imposed on drivers who wish to take their licence early, or collect it at a later date. The clearing up only takes 20 minutes if everyone helps out.
6. All members are expected to participate in the running of the meeting. We are now compiling rotas for marshalling, startline and other jobs so that we can spread the workload. This means that you will only be required to do a job for a short while on race days.
7. Consistent failure by any member to contribute to the running of the club and race days may result in membership being questioned or withdrawn.

ALL ST NEOTS MEMBERS MUST BE SIGNED ON BEFORE 9.30 AM ON RACE DAYS

We are sorry these rules have to be implemented, but they do help with the smooth running of the club.

Carol Robins (Secretary)

MPORTANT NOTICE FOR MEMBERS

The committee has clarified the following arrangements for track erection days:

On SATURDAYS before one-day meetings you MUST be signed on by 3.30 pm to be counted as having attended the work party, and to be allowed to compete in the St Neots club open race on the Sunday. The official start time for Saturday work parties is 12.00 noon, but work will normally commence around 10.00 am

On FRIDAY 4 JULY, before the 2-day meeting, you must be signed on by 8.30 pm, although we hope as many members as possible will be present from 2 pm onwards.

Club Diary 2008

Club meetings are held at the RAF Club, Huntingdon Street, St Neots, starting at 8 pm. All members and their guests are welcome at these meetings to socialise and have input into the running of the club and the sport of Autograss Racing.

 

New members needing directions to the venue should contact any committee member. The committee would welcome any suggestions of social activities that could be added to the club nights.

 

St Neots Autograss Club

 

The St Neots Autograss Club organises six race meetings each year (usually including one two-day meeting) on its home track, beside the A1 trunk road at Riverside Farm, Wyboston, Bedfordshire. This track, which has been the home of the St Neots club since July 1986, is also the venue for the East Anglian League Open meeting which in 2008, as in 1996, 1998 and 2003 and 2005, forms a round of the British Autograss Series. This event was voted the best BAS round of 2005. Wyboston was also the venue for the 2005 Ladies' and Juniors' National Championships, which was hosted by the East Anglian League for the third time. The club runs its own season-long points championships for its members in addition to the East Anglian League Championship, which usually comprises twelve rounds held at St Neots and its sister club, Cambridge Autograss Club.

 

The St Neots club also holds regular social get-togethers at the "RAF Club", Huntingdon Street, St Neots, to which all existing and prospective future members are welcome.

 

CLUB CONTACTS

 

For information about club membership and activities, please contact Dave or Carol Robins

 

Phone 01234 708064

E-mail bpgrassing@btopenworld.com

 

COMMITTEE 2008

 

CHAIRMAN

Dave Robins

 

VICE CHAIRMAN

Nick Campbell

 

SECRETARY

Carol Robins

 

TREASURER

Carol Robins

 

CHIEF MARSHAL

Spencer Warburton

 

CHIEF SCRUTINEER

Mark Empson

 

SAFETY OFFICER

Mick New

 

DRIVERS’ REPRESENTATIVE

Julia Hobson

 

ASSISTANT CHIEF SCRUTINEERS

Dave Digby

Dave George

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Colin Browning

Sam Campbell

Gary Clapham

Mark Hill

Sharon New

Jeffrey Parish

Karel Ponder

Dave Purchase

Daniel Robins

Ian Robins

John Savage

Rose Savage

Mark Smith

Frank Sole

Arron Warburton

Dani Warburton

 

 

St Neots Autograss Club would like to thank the following, without whom we could not continue to run our race meetings:

 

Mr and Mrs Docherty, for the use of the field

 

British Red Cross, Bedfordshire Branch, for first aid and paramedic services

 

Bedfordshire Recovery and MA Motors, for breakdown services

 

Bob Robins, the President of St Neots Autograss Club, sadly passed away on Sunday 11 March 2007.

 

Bob wasn't quite a founder member of the St Neots club - we believe he started racing in 1972, when the club had already been in existence for a year - but it's fair to say he had more influence than anyone on the growth of Autograss in East Anglia, with the Robins family name becoming almost synonymous with the St Neots club. For many years Bob served as St Neots Chairman, until in 1991 he accepted the title of President and handed the chair over to his son David. Bob continued to serve the club well as one of its hardest working members, and carried out the starter's job right up to the end of the 2006 season.

 

Bob was a regular Class 2 racer for a long time, and continued racing until well into his 70s. In recent years he'd been very proud of the progress made by his grandson Daniel, who took over Bob's time-honoured SN43 number.

 

He was also a brilliant "old school" mechanic, who solved many a local racer's problems - and fortunately handed his skills down to David and Michael.

 

The first Bob Robins Memorial Race meeting was held at Wyboston in July 2007. The two-day meeting featured, on the Saturday, a unique “retro” race format  and raised a total of £2,000 for charity, divided between the British Heart Foundation and Cancer Research UK.

 

St Neots Autograss Club sends its sincere sympathies to Peggy, David, Michael and all the family.

 

IN MEMORY OF

 

BOB ROBINS