Dukeries Motor Club scoops Motorsport UK’s Club of the Year Award 2021 for second time
The region’s biggest motorsport club has scooped an award from its governing body, reports Paul Horton.
Dukeries Motor Club were announced as winners of Motorsport UK’s Club of the Year Award 2021 at the annual ceremony in London.
Awarded in recognition of their outreach programme to inspire the next generation of motor-racing enthusiasts and their recovery from the impact of the global pandemic, club members attended the annual Motorsport UK’s Night of Champions at the Royal Automobile Club.
Club chairman Paul Rees said: “We are very excited to have achieved this recognition twice in a relatively short period of time.
“This is very much the culmination of the hard work put in by members of the club over the last two very difficult years and will spur us on to new challenges in the future.
“We have some exciting things planned for 2022 which will definitely need the support of the club and its members and we all should be proud of the success of the club and the bright future for us all.”
It was the second time the Nottinghamshire-based club had won the annual award, 18 years on from its 2003 success.
The win comes after the club’s 62nd consecutive Dukeries Rally at Donington Park on December 5, 2021.
The Dukeries Rally is renowned for its days in Clumber Park, Clipstone Forest and the Sherwood Pines Complex before moving to its new home of Donington Park in 2015.
Chairman Rees said the long-standing club would continue to expand and already had a solid calendar of events planned this year.
Two club nights are organised every month, with the second event hosting an activity, from supporting members through the Motorsport UK Marshal Accreditation process or inviting Clubman Motorsport to give a presentation on safety equipment and the new requirements for Fire Extinguishers in Rally Cars.
In addition to the Donington Rally in March, the Flying Fortress Stages in June and the Dukeries Rally at the end of the year, the motor club is also planning its first ever Targa Rally in July by collaborating with another club that has more experience in organising Targa Rallies.
