How to Enter an Aintree Sprint
Entries are open for our 2025 Aintree Sprints!
You don’t have to be in a championship to take part. See our Event Calendar for a list of clubs whose members are invited to our events.
Unfortunately, due to the ever increasing cost of staging events and the significant lack of competitors since the pandemic, every Aintree sprint since 2019 has failed to break even financially. We have relectantly decided to run just two Aintree sprints in 2025 (May and September). In place of the June sprint, we shall run a third test/track day as we try to reduce our losses. We hope this will enable us to preserve the use of the historic Aintree venue for motorsport.
To keep motorsport alive at Aintree, we need your support more than ever. Use it or lose it!
Enter and Pay online with our secure online service:
By entering, you agree to comply with Motorsport UK’s National Competition Rules and the 2025 Supplementary Regulations for the event.
You should read the Supplementary Regulations first to determine which class you are entering and what you need to do to your car.
The entry fee is great value at £133 per event and just £130 for LMC members – 2024’s entry fees are held for another year. Each entry fee includes the latest Motorsport UK per capita fee of £33. Not an LMC member? You can still claim the member’s discount by joining the Club no; it’s fantastic value at only £12 a year, or £30 for three years.
Join here:- Membership – Join Us, then return to this page and click the link below to enter the event(s).
We include the full range of North & Midlands Classes at our events, as detailed in our event regulations. The clarifications will help you to work out what you can (and can’t) do to your road car and still stay in class. Basically, if the MSUK National Competition Rules says a modification is ok, then it is. If it doesn’t mention it, then you can’t do it.
To find out why we use these classes, see our History of the North & Midlands Classes and Clarifications.
Save money and join LMC
If you enter any three LMC events (sprints, hillclimbs or trackdays), your total discount almost pays for your membership. Enter a Test/Trackday as well and you are in profit. And membership entitles you to join our popular Speed Championship that takes in up to 24 events at 9 of the most popular Sprint and Hillclimb venues in the North and Midlands and even crosses the borders into Scotland and North Wales.
Notes:
Camping before events
A limited amount of camping is available on Friday evenings for competitors with motorhomes and campervans that have onboard facilities. There are no power or water hook-up services, and toilets are not available overnight. Tents are not allowed.
You should arrive by 8:45 pm at the latest as the venue gates will be locked at 9.00 pm and will not re-open until 6.30 on Saturday morning. There is no access or exit for vehicles or pedestrians between those times.
To book a space, contact the entries secretary to ensure the available spaces have not already been taken up.
Not competed in a sprint before? The following will defiinitely help:-
What kit do I need and what do I need to do to my car?
We always recommend visiting a sprint or hillclimb event first and ask competitors loads of questions. Drivers are a friendly bunch and love to talk about their cars and will freely give advice to a potential new competitor.
Firstly, to enter a sprint or hillclimb (the rules are same in both disciplines and several competitors take part in both) you’ll need a Motorsport UK RS Inter-Club competition licence, and you’ll need to join motor club that’s been invited to the event. The Barbon events are run by Liverpool MC and Kirkby Lonsdale MC; membership of either will allow you to compete in most sprints or hillclimbs in the north-west, and several further afield. If you have a totally standard road legal car first registered after 1/1/2000 that’s less than 2 litre and not turbo’d, then you might be able to enter the Intro Class on an MSUK Clubsport licence, but you’ll need to check the rules carefully.
Click on the event Supplementary Regulations above. They should be read in conjunction with Motorsport UK’s National Competition Rules for Sprints & Hillclimbs.
You’ll need to mark the towing points front & rear, and fit towing eyes in them. Modern road cars are supplied with one as standard and you can buy another eye quite cheaply. No need to use paint, TOW stickers are readily available online or you could just use insulating tape of a contrasting colour to make an arrow. You’ll need to wrap some yellow tape around the main earth cable to the battery. And you’ll need to show which way to turn the key to turn off the ignition too. You’ll need to make a timing beam splitter and fasten it to the front of the car. Most people use a piece of black aluminium and attach it using a numberplate bolt, or a bracket fastened behind the numberplate. The dimensions are critical, so look at MSUK’s NCRs.
You’ll need a helmet of the right standard (the scrutineers will need to examine it and affix an approval sticker on the dayfor a small fee). Driving anything other than a standard road car you’ll need FIA approved overalls and (in some classes) gloves too. In most post 2000 standard road cars, you don’t need full FIA overalls, but they will need to be flame retardant.
Finally, you’ll need to make a timing beam splitter and fasten it to the front of the car. Most people use a piece of black aluminium and on a road car they attach it using a numberplate bolt, or a bracket fastened behind the numberplate.
This is a very much simplified overview of what’s required. The following guides will definitely help answer your questions before your first event:
https://www.hillclimbandsprint.co.uk/allabout.asp
https://tinsanmotorsport.co.uk/taking-your-daily-car-to-a-speed-event/
Invited Championships:
See our Club Calendar page for the latest list of championships invited to our sprints & hillclimbs.
Click to enter:-
Once you have completed your details for your first event of the season, our entry system allows you to simply copy your details across to enter further LMC events without having to key in everything again.
Need to do some testing? Then don’t miss our Aintree Test/Track Days which are ideal for testing cars – and drivers. We have exclusive sessions for Single-seaters too! For details, select our track day tab above.
Sprint entries are open. Just select the appropriate event here:-
Aintree Spring Sprint – 31st May 2025
We regret there won’t be a June sprint in 2025 as we try to restrict the losses on our Aintree speed events.
Aintree Autumn Sprint – 6th September 2025
Note, we don’t accept entries by post. If you struggle to enter online, ask a friend or colleague to help you, or contact the LMC entries secretary for advice. See the event regulations for contact details.
We use the ultra-secure Stripe payment service which allows you to use your normal credit or debit card without extra charge. LMC does not have access to your card details.
Data Protection:
We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information to administer your entry, including providing a public Entry List and sending you emails in connection with your entry. Some of your information will be passed on to the timekeepers, scrutineers and others involved in organising the event. See our Privacy and Safeguarding Policies Here.
If you are competing in several speed events in addition to Aintree, you could be eligible for an award by joining the Liverpool Motor Club Speed Championship – the Best in the North West!
Our events are also qualifying rounds of the ANWCC Speed Championship and the SD34 Sprint & Hillclimb Championship. Why not enter all three – the same events tend to be qualifying rounds of all three championships so you’ll stand an even greater chance of winning an award.
Live timings are available during the Aintree events from www.Resultsman.info
Insurance whilst competing
Your existing car insurance policy will not cover you whilst competing so unless you take out specialist cover, you will be on track entirely at your own risk. We don’t recommend any particular company but drivers tell us that they have been pleased with the service provided by the following:-
MarshSport Motorsport Insurance
MarshSport is also the appointed insurance broker to Motorsport UK.
Tel: 0113 394 2250 – (please mention Liverpool Motor Club when calling)
REIS Motorsport Insurance <– Click to visit their website
Moris Motorsport Insurance – Click to visit their website
0203 427 5960
North West Air Ambulance
We are supporting the North West Air Ambulance Charity again this year. They don’t receive any funding from the Government or the NHS and rely on your donations. We hope you will support them too by adding a donation of £1 or more to your online entry. Since we started supporting NWAA in 2014, our drivers have donated over £8,000 to the Charity. Let’s see what we can do this year!
One day you may need their help, right now they need yours.
Charity No. 1075641 www.nwaa.net