THE POMEROY TROPHY: A VERY BRITISH MOTORSPORT ADVENTURE

You know it’s going to be a different sort of a day when you drive into a pit garage at Silverstone and a lady hands you two wooden suitcases. Welcome to the Vintage Sports-Car Club’s Pomeroy Trophy.

First run in 1952, the Pomeroy is designed to find the ultimate touring car, based on a number of tests. One is the ability to carry two “VSCC-sized suitcases”, which is the first test of the day.

The event is always full and attracts cars and drivers from all over: some treat it very seriously, some as a test session, some as their only competition of the year and there is a sub-culture of finding the most random car possible, like Charles Maers who spent around 1300 quid on a Fiat 126P or Henry Lees whose Volvo 240 Estate added… variety. And quite possibly shelter for the Fiat when the rain came.

In addition to the suitcase test, there are speed, braking and agility tests in the morning and then