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The British Automobile Racing Club can confirm that it will run a total of seven marshal training days prior to the start of the 2024 motorsport season.

Croft, Pembrey and Thruxton will host the aforementioned training days across the months of January, February and March next year.

Every event organised and run by the BARC needs marshals and all marshals, whatever they are doing, are contributing to the success and smooth running of the meeting.

With training provided to cover a wide range of topics such as fire safety to pit lane operation and teamwork; marshal training covers a wide variety of key attributes in preparing those that are heading trackside for the forthcoming season.

2024 BARC MARSHAL TRAINING DATES

Saturday 20th January – Thruxton [Speed Training, relocated from Gurston Down]

Sunday 21st January – Thruxton [New Marshals]

Saturday 10th February – Croft

Sunday 18th February – Pembrey

Sunday 3rd March – Harewood [Speed Training]

Saturday 9th March – Thruxton

Sunday 10th March – Thruxton

The Training Day booking form will be communicated shortly.

Want to find out more about marshalling with the BARC? Head to https://www.barc.net/marshals/!

The British Automobile Racing Club has partnered with The Lifestyle Card to offer members access to 5,000+ discounts, locally, nationally & online.

We are gifting all BARC members a FREE Lifestyle membership as a “thank you” from the British Automobile Racing Club. The Lifestyle Card is a multi-award-winning loyalty card with discounts covering all aspects of your lifestyle.

Once you’re on the Lifestyle Card website, you simply need to click ‘Claim Your Membership’, proceed to checkout and complete your ‘Billing Details’ (no bank details required); it will state £0.00 at checkout. There’s no need to download an app, save the website as a bookmark to any mobile device for quick and easy on-the-go access.

It’s effortless to access offers and discounts. Show your digital card to the participating businesses to receive your discount. Once logged into your account, you can view hidden promo codes and links for online deals and offers.

The Lifestyle Card provides members instant access to over 5,000 discounts across all aspects of their lifestyle. With thousands of deals covering local, independent, national, and online businesses, plenty of opportunities exist to save money.

The BARC Lifestyle card not only offers members the ability to access great savings, it promotes & supports businesses of all sizes and encourages people to put money back into their local community.

So, to save money on shopping, days out and experiences, trades, pet services, professional services, gyms, eating out, health & wellbeing, golf, hair & beauty, theme parks & attractions and luxury brands, sign up for your FREE BARC lifestyle card HERE!

It’s poised to be another full-throttle couple of days for the British Automobile Racing Club this weekend (august 12/13) with events taking place at Knockhill and Donington Park – and they’re both available to watch live online.

Below is all the information you’ll need to know to keep up-to-date with all the action that is being broadcast live:

KNOCKHILL

The battle for supremacy in the Kwik Fit British Touring Car Championship is set to ramp up this weekend as the UK’s premier motorsport series travels north of the border to Knockhill.

Three headline BTCC races will be complimented by a bumper support bill which includes the Legends Cars Elite Cup with JLM, ROKiT F4 British Championship, Porsche Carrera Cup GB and Vertu Motors MINI CHALLENGE JCW.

Saturday 12th August // 15:00 – WATCH HERE

Sunday 13th August // 11:15 – 18:15 – WATCH HERE

DONINGTON PARK

At Donington Park, the British Truck Racing Championship hits the halfway point in the season at headlines Convoy in the Park; one of the biggest truck festivals that is held in the UK every year.

Staging five colossal contests, the BTRC will be joined by the International Truck Prix, Pickup Truck Racing Championship, Kumho BMW Championship, CNC Heads Sports/Saloon Car Championship and Lancaster Insurance MGOC Championship.

Saturday 12th August // 12:20 – WATCH HERE

Sunday 13th August // 09:50 – WATCH HERE

To find out more information about this weekend’s race meetings, CLICK HERE.

Episode 4 of the British Automobile Racing Club’s new-for-2023 podcast, BARC’ing Mad, is now live and available to listen to.

In partnership with BP Fleet Solutions UK, the fortnightly podcast – which is hosted by Alan Hyde and Ian Waterhouse – is packed with full-throttle news, reviews and unmissable interviews.

The series’ fourth episode sees the hosts discuss the latest news and results from around the BARC with Event Manager David Wheadon before speaking to British Touring Car Championship fan favourite Jade Edwards ahead of the series’ annual visit to Croft this coming weekend (July 29/30).

Also joining Alan and Ian on the podcast is legendary former Ferrari and Williams Formula 1 engineer Rob Smedley, who discusses his journey through the motorsport ranks, the current landscape of Formula 1 and much more.

BARC’ing Mad is available to listen to across all popular podcast platforms including Apple Podcasts and Spotify.