motor sport yamaha

motor sport yamaha

At this point I should explain the setup of the Championship itself. Created originally in the United States in the early 90's to combat the spiralling cost of motorsports, a Legends car is a 1250cc Yamaha racing-bike engine and gearbox bolted into a 5/8 scale replica of 1930's style Ford, Chevy and Dodge coupes and sedans. Imported into the United Kingdom a few years later and adapted from their original oval specification to run on the more prevalent road-course circuits of Europe, a very popular British series was built up and following a lot of interest in the cars whenever the British Championship made visits to Scotland, a Scottish Championship to run over roughly ten rounds in the Spring and Summer months at Knockhill was created. Run since 2000 when six entrants took to the track, by 2006 it regularly saw upwards of twenty-five entrants at each round, the fields mostly made up of wealthy businessmen with money to spend on thrills and young drivers fresh from the karting scene and looking to make their way up in motorsport circles. All of this combined to make the SMRC Scottish Legends Championship one of the top levels of Scottish Motorsport. A big fan of the series, I'd hoped one day I might get a chance to have a go at racing one of them, but I had neither the racing background or the money to do so - it looked like a life as a spectator was the best I could hope for.