Longstone light car race

The Longstone Light Car Race will take place at Oulton Park in July...

The Vintage Sports-Car Club (VSCC) is re-establishing the Light car race on 10th of July at its Oulton Park race meeting. Perhaps appropriately, the title sponsor of the event is Longstone Classic Tyres – the home of vintage tyres. This year's 40-minute endurance race will be contested by an array of weird and wonderful light cars and cycle cars – the likes of which has not been seen this century. So, what's it all about?

In the early days of motoring, small capacity light-weight cars and cycle cars were the order of the day. Cotton and bobbin steering, air-cooled engines, with just one or two-cylinders powering cars whose transmission was often dealt with via belt or chain drive. To qualify as a Light car, vehicles must have been built before 1931 and have an engine capacity of less than 1500cc. They must also be standard and unmodified. The Longstone Light Car Race promises to be a spectacle not to be missed – find out more about attending via the VSCC website: vscc.co.uk