Tour Britannia - no longer?

[CKY]

I embarked on a search of curiosity to find out whether the HSCC's 'Tour Britannia' was still being run, however was unable to find anything to confirm this.

For those unaware, the event was an awesome combination of circuit/closed-venue events interspersed with road sections, very much in the spirit of the 'Avon Tour of Britain' from the '70s. Does anyone know why the events stopped being run? They always seemed well-supported when I was reading reports on the modern equivalents 10 years ago or so, plus since then there has been legislative change to (in theory) make it easier for people to organise motorsport events on closed public roads.

Failing the above, I presume the only equivalent events would be Tour Auto, Targa Tasmania etc.?

[andy97]

Tour Britannia stopped a few years ago, I think. I can’t remember when but I am guessing about 5 years ago, certainly a couple of years Pre Covid.
I can only assume that the costs of venue hire and all the associated costs of running the event were too much and entry fees didn’t cover it.
I know that they used to have a mix of races and stages but I always thought that an event every 2 years in the seasons between the R.A.C rally might work if it didn’t bother with the races and concentrated on a combination of some form of long distance navigation, targa style stages and hillclimbs/ sprints/ stages at the cheaper venues such as Curborough, Blyton, Loton Park, 3 Sisters etc etc.

ETA- just done some Googling and I think that 2015 might have been the last one.

Edited by andy97 on Tuesday 14th November 19:12

[CKY]

Cheers Andy, yeah thought as much - bit of a shame as the event attracted a great variety of cars (on the 2 occasions I was able to spectate at least) and the calibre of driving was high. As you say though if the numbers didn't work then not a lot that can be done

[velocemitch]

andy97 said:

Tour Britannia stopped a few years ago, I think. I can’t remember when but I am guessing about 5 years ago, certainly a couple of years Pre Covid.
I can only assume that the costs of venue hire and all the associated costs of running the event were too much and entry fees didn’t cover it.
I know that they used to have a mix of races and stages but I always thought that an event every 2 years in the seasons between the R.A.C rally might work if it didn’t bother with the races and concentrated on a combination of some form of long distance navigation, targa style stages and hillclimbs/ sprints/ stages at the cheaper venues such as Curborough, Blyton, Loton Park, 3 Sisters etc etc.

ETA- just done some Googling and I think that 2015 might have been the last one.

Edited by andy97 on Tuesday 14th November 19:12

There isn’t that much difference between what you describe and Rally of the Tests.

[RSTurboPaul]

The Flying Scotsman vintage rally might be something worth looking into if one fancies some long distance driving with some short test sections.

[velocemitch]

RSTurboPaul said:

The Flying Scotsman vintage rally might be something worth looking into if one fancies some long distance driving with some short test sections.

Yep. Trouble is the Car is likely to cost a pretty penny.
LeJog, however............

[CKY]

velocemitch said:

There isn’t that much difference between what you describe and Rally of the Tests.

Cheers for the recommendations chaps, will do some looking in to the above and The Flying Scotsman/LeJog!