Chelmsford Motor Club is pleased to announce an Endurance Rally for 1400cc petrol and 2000cc diesel cars built to the new Endurance Rally formula. Adopting the format of the famous 1970s BTRDA championship ‘Britvic Rally’, the event will start and finish in Chelmsford.

The 350-mile route will include many of the ‘Britvic Rally’ stage venues in Essex and Suffolk on Saturday afternoon. There will be an evening supper halt in Thetford followed by a Norfolk-based night rally comprising forest, fenland and airfield ‘stages’ separated by ‘selectives’ on public whites - some of the smoother tracks used on Chelmsford Motor Club’s Preston Rally and East Anglian Classic.
Much of the afternoon route will be repeated in the early hours of Sunday morning as the route returns to Chelmsford for a breakfast awards presentation.
Chelmsford Motor Club is famed for its high-quality and popular events organised by experienced competitors. The Midsummer Enduro will be no exception. The organising team is drawn from both the Preston and East Anglian Classic and the club’s results service using Liege timers and chips (as used on the recent ‘Lombard Revival’) is one of the best in the country.

Entries will be limited to 75 cars. The entry fee will be around £200, depending on forestry allocations and venue-hire costs. Regulations and entry forms will be published on the club web-site on 1st March 2005.

“A famous concept is revived with the new formula for standard-production 1400cc cars – or two-litre diesels – non-turbocharged and with standard transmissions and brakes,” said Paul Barrett the clerk of the course. “We are pleased to be the first English club to adopt the new formula. Those who have never driven an “all-nighter” will be pleased to know that being the longest day of the year, it’s daylight from around 4am. But those with good memories or a sense of nostalgia will recognise that the Chelmsford Motor Club team is aiming at putting on a good, long, hard-day’s-night - a concept older hands who remember the Britvic days will recognise. It will be a real endurance event!”
The event has the support of the Endurance Rally Association