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SPRINTING TO SUCCESS

It’s an age-old question asked by event organisers: how to get more people involved in motorsport? One logical group to target as potential future competitors is trackday drivers – after all, these are people who are already showing an interest in cars and visiting a circuit. In 2013, the Knockhill Motor Sports Club recognised this and has aimed to reduce the gap between trackdays and racing north of the border via its Super Lap Scotland series.

“The realisation came to us that the popularity of trackdays is huge but from trackdays to racing is a ginormous step for so many people,” says KMSC chairman Stuart Gray. “They love driving fast, they love going on track but the first step in motorsport was then full-blown racing and, for that reason, it was a

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