Vol 2, issue 12, spring 2014 Lloyd’s MotorANNUAL Club MAGAZINE Max & Tom Chilton The best year of their lives Lloyd’s Motor Club Founded 1951 3 Experience Service Evolution Lloyd’s Motor Club or Revolution? Flexibility One Lime Street London EC3M 7HA www.LloydsMotorClub.com he roots of the Lloyd’s in dispute resolution Motor Club have always Patron been in motor sport, for the insurance industry John Nelson, chairman of Lloyd’s going back over half a century Tto 1951, when one of the club’s founding Chairman members was works Connaught F1 and • Consult directly with senior partners Roger Earl Aston Martin team driver Eric Thompson. Tel: 07774 120 614 • Nearly 50 years first-hand knowledge of Yet the Lloyd’s connection with motor Jonathan Suckling or Dennis Wilkins [email protected] Lloyd’s and London market insurance issues sport goes way back before Eric, back to pre-war Brooklands with World Landspeed Record holder Sir Malcolm Campbell. • Sensible, transparent fee structure 020 7816 2660 Editor [email protected] Jonathan Suckling Fast forward to today and those links are still maintained with Max Chilton and [email protected] Tel: 0207 816 2660 Honorary VIP Member Wing Commander Andy Green, so club members are still [email protected] racing at the very highest levels but there remains a missing piece to the jigsaw. www.wilkinsbeaumontsuckling.co.uk Secretary Decades ago the club used to organise competitive events for members with Brian Hunt their own cars but nowadays that is no longer viable. All that is about to change, Gallery 4, 12 Leadenhall Street, London EC3V 1LP Tel: 07971 663 190 as for 2014 the club is proud to announce that it has established an association [email protected] with the Historic Racing Drivers’ Club (HRDC), the idea being that the HRDC will Wilkins Beaumont Suckling is a trading name of Wilkins Beaumont Suckling Limited. Company Registered in England & Wales. Company Reg. No. 6460559. Registered office: Tower 42, 25 Old Broad Street, London EC2N 1HN. represent a direct link with motor racing for members of the LMC. The Company is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. SRA No. 484829. The Solicitors Code of Conduct governs this practice and it can be found at www.sra.org.uk. WBS is a Registered Trade Mark. Treasurer Derrick Rowe Founder of the HRDC is Julius Thurgood, a longstanding friend of the LMC and a Tel: 0752 504 2300 consultant to Goodwood. One of the problems with Historic motor sport is that [email protected] it can appear inaccessible unless you have an expensive old or classic racing car. Julius intends to change that perception with the HRDC Academy Series, so if you Membership Secretary Bob Bradbury are thinking about starting motor racing in a modern formula like Caterhams, you Tel: 0207 696 8516 would be wise to think again and consider the HRDC Academy very seriously. You [email protected] can read all about it in this issue. Who knows, play your cards right and in a few years’ time you might find yourself on the grid at the Goodwood Revival? Webmaster Graham Faggetter If your ambitions do not include driving, the HRDC also welcomes spectators at all [email protected] of their events. Keep an eye on the HRDC calendar and look out for their hospitality area in the paddock – they will be pleased to see you and the competitors will be LMC Committee glad to show you around their cars. All cars competing in HRDC races this year will TESTED BEYOND Paul Latimer wear a Lloyd’s Motor Club decal, so they will be easy to identify. Charlie Miller ENDURANCE Martin Robinson In addition to the HRDC races, a full calendar of LMC events is planned for this Max Taylor year, including track days at Goodwood, celebrity lunches, forums in the Lloyd’s Born in the air, defi ned in the cockpit, Clive Willis library presented by motor manufacturers and more. Numbers for all these events Austin Wren are limited, so please watch the club’s website for more information. assembled in England. Bremont mechanical (See LMC website for contact details) chronometers are made by professionals to exacting standards... for the rest of us. Honorary VIP Members Sir Stirling Moss Wing Commander Andrew Green Squadron Leader Nigel Rose Captain Eric Brown RN Jonathan Suckling (JaS) CITY OF LONDON BOUTIQUE 12 Royal Exchange, EC3V 3LQ All material published remains ALT1-C/CR the copyright of the person credited, MAYFAIR BOUTIQUE (where that has been possible). This issue is kindly 29 South Audley St, W1K 2PE No part of this magazine may be reproduced or transmitted in any form sponsored by or by any means, without prior written permission of the copyright owner. Bremont.com Cover Image © Russell Batchelor File::Bremont_ALT1-C_LloysMotorClub_A5Landscape Size: A5 Landscape Op: Ollie Date: 16 January 2014 5:16 PM Publication: Lloyds Motor Club Tel No Fonts Image Grammar Website T&Cs Rotation Spelling Logo Bleed Signed 4 5 We were delighted to be A Record Breaking Year able to feature John Surtees OBE as the guest speaker at the biennial Dinner conditions, with the Sprint starting off dry but with the later heats and the finals taking place in wet conditions, while the three-hour Endurance race started in the wet before the sun came out in the afternoon. A full report will appear shortly in the next edition of the LMC Review. The next Motor Forum was presented by McLaren on 19 September, with a capacity crowd filling the Old Library to hear Stuart Birrell, Chief Information Officer, providing a fascinating 45 minute insiders’ view of this illustrious company and its products. The following month saw another sell-out success, with the ‘Gentleman’ Jack Sears Lunch on 11 October at the City Club, another new venue for 2013; thanks to another tremendous set of raffle prizes, a donation of £1,000 was made to 11 EOD. Porsche Cars Great Britain Limited presented the final Motor Forum of the year on 4 November. Nick Wilson, Brand and Strategy Manager, presented a concise history to a packed Old Library audience, including the current model range and plans for the future direction of the brand. His colleague Alan Millsop highlighted the Porsche Experience Centre at Silverstone, with one lucky guest winning a day at the Centre in the traditional business card draw. Any yeAr feAturing An LMC Dinner is likely The year was rounded out by the annual military-themed Club Lunch on 6 December at Minster Exchange, with Air to be an exceptional one, and this was certainly true of Commodore Charles Clarke from 619 Squadron the guest of 2013, with record numbers of members and their guests also honour. The proceeds from the event, including the raffle, enabled the Club to donate £4,500 to the Upkeep Trust attending the Club’s broad selection of supporting events. for the long-term maintenance of the Bomber Command Memorial. hese ranged from the fiercely participative to £5,000 to the Henry Surtees Foundation; for a full report, see A brand-new Club event came hot on its heels, with the When combined with the donations to the Henry Surtees the more leisurely, with each event devised to the July 2013 edition of the LMC Review. Car Limits high performance driver training day at North Foundation, Race 2 Recovery and 11 EOD, this meant that Weald airfield on 5 July; this gave a select group of the Club was able to generate £12,500 for good causes in keep the membership entertained, informed Next on the calendar was the first of the year’s two visits to members the chance to improve their driving skills in a safe 2013 thanks to the generosity of its members, a statistic of and amused, while helping the Club to continue Goodwood for the Club’s ever-popular track days. Both the May but exhilarating environment, and will be repeated in 2014. which we can all be very proud. raising significant sums for a variety of charities. and November dates were once again blessed with fair weather TheT first event of the year was the Noble Automotive Forum on and were very popular with regulars and newcomers alike. After the success of the visit to Arras in 2012 the Club The LMC Diary for 2014 is already looking to be even busier than last year, with highlights including some very high- 4 February, which saw Robert Dubsky entertain the assembled organised a second driving tour to France, which took place The second Club Supper featured Peter Leake, one of the profile Lunch and Supper guests and a joint trip to Honfleur throng with the history of this iconic British marque in Lloyd’s over the weekend of 19 to 21 July. This year we visited the Club’s most popular guest speakers of recent years. This time with the Yacht Club and Wine Society. Plans are also afoot Old Library. This was closely followed by the first Club Supper Normandy D-Day landing beaches, the trip including hotel around, with the Le Mans 24 Hours just days away, Peter told for possible visits to the McLaren, Williams and Classic of the year in the Minster Exchange on 12 February, where accommodation in Bayeux and lunch at Caen museum. the story of Jaguar’s exploits at Le Mans in his usual ebullient Team Lotus F1 teams, the Porsche Experience Centre, members Tony and Gavin Pickering regaled the membership fashion. The event took place on the evening of 11 June at an Tony Whitehorn, President & CEO of Hyundai Motor UK, Beaulieu and the Fleet Air Arm Museum in Yeovilton - not with the story of their participation in the 2012 Le Mans Classic exciting new venue for the Club - the Classic Car Club’s premises presented the second Motor Forum on 25 July in the Old forgetting, of course, the traditional events including six in their Jaguar D-type.