August Gymkhana

August Gymkhana.
When: Wednesday 9th August.
Where: Terrington St Clement.

Results:

o/aCompTotalT1
R1
T1
R2
T2
R1
T2
R2
T3
R1
T3
R2
T4
R1
T4
R2
T5
R1
T5
R2
T6
R1
T6
R2
T7
R1
T7
R2
Total
1Vini Cruz6194344232237403938404050427373604
Penalties55515
2John Peterson6314444232340394444485542407779631
Penalties0
3Paul Haylock6575046252542414543444345418681657
Penalties0
4Joe Glover730505625254141585259514843WD78627
Penalties598103
5Jonathan Stimpson7314849262755465853676145437583726
Penalties55
6Eagan Glover7504848302341406260535451468485725
Penalties101525

CLASSIC CAR RALLY

We have recently posted a full report on our 45th Annual Classic Car Rally which took place on Sunday 2 July.

Click here to view

We presented our cheque to NARS for £1000 – proceeds from this year’s event – in August.

Our provisional date for the 2024 event is Sunday 7 July.

Information will be released before Easter 2024. If you wish to receive details and are not already on our mailing list, please contact Adrian Cunnington.

May Gymkhana

First Gymkhana of the year.
When: Wednesday 3rd May.
Where: Chapel Barn, Eastmoor, PE33 9QA, Ref 143 / 727023

Results:

o/aCompTot
1Rob / Will439
2Edward / Paul445
3Paul / Edward466
4Nick / Kayos477

Thank you to Nick, Dave & June for organising, Steve for the venue and Andy, Dave & Dave for marshalling.

April Clubnight

When: Wednesday 19th April 2023.
Organiser: David Bell.

CarClassDriverNavigatoro/aClassMins:Secs
1EPaul
Smalley
Matthew
Smalley
111:26
2EJohn
Peterson
David
Smalley
332:00
3EHarvey
Steele
Martin
Pitt
221:32
4ENeil
Peterson
Will
Brown
668:54
5EJune
Pollard
Ian
Pollard
7714:04
6EBen
Cutting
Steve
Cumbers
443:17
7EMick
Beauchamp
Mark
Banham
557:06
Thank you to: Runcton Holme Social Club for the venue
and the marshals:
A1 Ian & Gill Doble
A2 Dave Saint, Howard Joynt & Nij Cook
A3 Andy Conrgreve & Dave Sooley
A4 Duncan Russell
B1 Derke Webb & Chris Hawkins
B2 Richard Stanley
B3 Dave Bowman & Jody Wilson
B4 Dave Pollard
C1 Ian & Gill Doble
C2 Dave Saint, Howard Joynt & Nij Cook

EAST ANGLIAN INTER-CLUB QUIZ

Ten teams from across the region took up the cudgels for a revival of the East Anglian Inter-Club Quiz hosted by West Suffolk MC at Horringer on 31 March.

The event formed part of Motorsport Month East put together under the auspices of the Association of Eastern Motor Clubs.

King’s Lynn put in a couple of teams: the ‘President’s Team’, KLDMC1, comprised Paul & Helen Haylock, Ed Bennett and Ed Haylock whilst the ‘Chairman’s Team’ KLDMC2 had Vice-Chairman Dave Ottoway, Duncan & Marian Russell and Adrian Cunnington doing battle on our behalf. By the way, our Chairman was on holiday!!

Tackling a variety of subjects ranging from motoring to general knowledge and sport to history, across a couple of hours of intense but mostly-jovial quizzing, Chelmsford Motor Club came out on top, shading the honours by two points from our very own King’s Lynn MC 2, with Cambridge Car Club another couple of points back in third. It turned out to be a very tight contest with just 8 points covering the top eight teams.

Full results: 1st Chelmsford MC 64 points; 2nd King’s Lynn MC2 62; 3rd Cambridge CC 60; 4th= Sporting CC of Norfolk 59; 4th= West Suffolk MC2 59; 6th King’s Lynn MC1 57; 7th= Green Belt MC 56; 7th= Eastern Counties MC2 56; 9th Eastern Counties MC1 52; 10th West Suffolk MC1 50.

The victorious team from Chelmsford Motor Club receive their prizes for winning the 2023 Inter-Club Quiz hosted by West Suffolk MC

March Clubnight

When: Wednesday 1st March 2023.
Organisers: Dave, June & Ian Pollard.

CarClassDriverNavigatoro/aClassFailsMins
1EPaul
Smalley
Matthew
Smalley
1=1=0
2EJohn
Peterson
David
Smalley
1=1=0
3EEd
Haylock
Paul
Haylock
5511
4EBen
Cutting
Steve
Cumbers
4410
5ENeil
Peterson
Will
Brown
8856
6EMick
Beauchamp
Mark
Banham
6612
7ERob
Kitchen
Jonathon
Stimpson
3318
8EHarvey
Steele
Martin
Pitt
77220
9IMartin
Freeman
Mike
Salmon
9112
10NJohn
Pollard
Hilary
Pollard
10160
11BMarc
Sheffield
Richard
Felton
RETIRED
Thank you to: Dave, June & Ian Pollard for organising
Shouldham Bowls Club for the venue
and the marshals:
D. Pollard, J. Pollard, I Pollard, S. Pollard, J. Wilson, S. Tilburn, D. Bowman, D. Bell, A. Congreve, D. Sooley, D. Russell, A. Cunnington, K. Woodwood, R. Stanley

70th ANNIVERSARY Dinner

KLDMC celebrated our 70th Anniversary on Saturday 25th February 2023.

We were privileged to have been invited and hosted by the Mayor of Kings Lynn, the very charitable Councillor Lesley Bambridge, to hold the event at the prestigious Kings Lynn Town Hall, a venue that has an incredibly diverse history of use ranging from Public House, Police HQ, Court and Gaol!

Club President Paul Haylock thanked everyone involved for making the evening possible and hoped to see the Club continue to flourish as it enters its eight decade. It will continue to be involved with a wide variety of activities from club nights; navigational, targa and stage rallies; autotests/gymkhanas and an increasing number of classsic car events.

Joining us as guest speaker was Phil Mills, 2003 WRC World Champion with Petter Solberg, and present owner of world class rally car preparation and build business, Viking Motorsport. Phil braved questions on the night from 100 or so members and guests who attended, recalling a career which saw him compete in international rallies over 17 seasons, multiple seasons of national championship stage and road events and a total of 155 road rallies.

Exceptional food was provided by the award winning Shefs and it was great to be able to chat and reminisce with firends old and new on the past 70 years of Kings Lynn and District Motor Club’s rich history.

Thank you to everyone who attened for your support and special thanks to all who were involved in the organising team under the leadership of Paul, Ed & Helen Haylock, Steve Tilburn and Duncan Russell.

Photos to follow.

START THE YEAR QUIZ

Thanks to all who joined us on 18 January for our clubnight ‘start the year’ quiz.

Organised by Duncan & Marian Russell and Adrian & Caroline Cunnington, teams were asked to answer 7 rounds of questions ranging from motorsport, music, KLDMC, general knowledge and some tricky car identification teasers.

We had our fair share of Norfolk-based questions featuring subjects such as Jack Sears, Martin Brundle, Robbie Williams and the Broadland Northway (Google it!)

We had over 20 participants in total which was great to see with the team of Mark, David, Will and Kirsten in the immodest, but aptly-titled, ‘Eventual Winners’ Team just shading it from team Haylock’s ‘A team’

Results 

  1.  Eventual Winners  54
  2.  A Team 53
  3.  The Chippies 40.5
  4.  Big Balls Motorsport 35.5
  5.  KAYOS  34.5

Thanks also to the ladies at Runcton Holme Social Club for their support providing bar facilities for the evening.

First Aid / CPR Training Session

On Monday 17th October there will be a free emergency first aid / CPR training session provided by Pete from NARS 19.00 for a 19.15 start at Runcton Holme Social Club, School Road, Runcton Holme, PE33 0AQ. Map143/622089

This is open to all KLDMC members but we would like some idea of numbers in advance so please send an email to paul.smalley@kier.co.uk to confirm your attendance.

The session should last 30 to 45 minutes and will be followed by the presentation of a cheque for £1,000 to NARS – this being the proceeds from the 44th KLDMC Classis Rally.

A certificate of attendance will be given at the end of the course.