BRSCC & MISSION MOTORSPORT PRESENT RACE OF REMEMBERANCE 2025
Mission Motorsport and the British Racing & Sports Car Club (BRSCC) are proud to present the Race of Remembrance for 2025 – continuing a unique tradition that blends motorsport with meaningful support for the Armed Forces community.
Now a firm fixture on the UK racing calendar, Race of Remembrance is a special 12-hour endurance event held at Anglesey Circuit in Wales on the coast of the Irish Sea, centred around a poignant Remembrance Sunday service in the pitlane. More than just a race, the event raises crucial funds to support service leavers, veterans, and their families through Mission Motorsport’s life-changing programmes, allowing them to rehabilitate and retrain into the automotive and motorsport industries.
Set to take place this weekend, the format will follow tradition: the race begins Saturday afternoon, pauses overnight, restarts Sunday morning, and breaks again for the all–important Remembrance Sunday service in pitlane before completing the remainder of the 12 hours.
Alongside the main event, mainstays of the weekend will be back including Saturday’s special ROR ClubSport Trophy support race, Supercar Saturday which provides on-track experiences for veterans, service leavers, their families and marshals to enjoy, and the jovial Biathlon of Foolishness prior to the start of the main event. All of the above bring a fun and light-hearted vibe in support of a serious cause.
Thanks to growing support, the event continues to generate vital funding – with every penny raised beyond fixed costs going directly to Mission Motorsport. The BRSCC is once again honoured and privileged to play its part in organising and managing the event and looks forward to another packed grid and a memorable weekend.
Let’s look down the entry list to see who to watch out for, and once again it’s a packed out entry with more than 50 teams descending on Wales this weekend for what has been aptly described by some as the “club racer’s Le Mans”. Naturally, the top class of Class D will boast the favourites to win the race outright, with contenders likely to be the Fraser Nash entered Audi TT, DKS Motorsport’s Caterham 7, two entries from former winners Rob Boston Racing with a pair of Lotus Elises, with a third Elise from ES Motorsports too. Plus, regulars Brake Dancer Racing also bring their battle-tested Mazda RX-8 into the foray as well.
Class C is looking like its most competitive for several years with a bulk of entries ready to do battle over 12 hours. The BMWs of Patron Racing and Takona Racing Division are expected to be up there towards the front, as will the Racegraft BMW 1 Series and paddock favourites Flying Haggis Racing in their Honda Civic. Also watch out for Tequila Racing too, another regular ROR team in their Mazda MX-5, along with the Mk3s from Paul Sheard Racing.
In Class B, there’s an Italian squad in Merlu Motorsport in their Mazda MX-5, while another fan favourite in Puretrack Racing has returned with their Renault Clio once again set to be adorned with a military inspired livery for ROR once more. Brake Dancer Racing’s quintet of drivers will also pilot their Mazda MX-5 in this event too, while TrackScotland’s MINI is back too, as is a firm favourite in the paddock. The DC Lomas Racing FIAT Panda captured many hearts in 2024, despite an accident in the final moments curtailing their race short, but it’s certainly going to be another car many look out for.
The other two classes are again dedicated to popular club level endurance series – the BMW 116 Trophy and the C1 Endurance Series, both of which are going to enjoy their own internal race within a race. In the C1 ranks regular front running teams Silverlake and WRC Developments will almost certainly be ready to stake their claim, but a dark horse will certainly be Sunbelt Rentals whose driver line-up features a certain Jake Hill, 2024 BTCC champion. You can also watch for Flying Felix Racing, Ugga Dugga Racing, Radiation Racing and TrackScotland among others.
As for the BMW 116 class, there’s a trio of Matabooboo Racing entries, a pair from Anthony Seddon Racing, military representation courtesy of Army Sports Car Racing, RAF Motorsport, Royal Navy Motorsport and Royal Engineers Motorsport, and a pair of cars from YGDRASIL too. This class always tends to be one of the most competitive, so be sure to watch out for it.
This weekend marks the final outing of the year for the BRSCC’s popular ClubSport Trophy series, and what better way to round out 2025 than at Anglesey Circuit in Wales for the now annual support race to the incredible Race of Remembrance. It’s been well supported in previous iterations, and the 2025 edition is no different.
In the top class of Class A, there’s ClubSport regulars bidding for glory again like Phiroze Bilimoria’s VW Scirocco and the Lotus Exige of Lloyd and Neil Huggins, plus fellow VW racers Ben Walkingshaw and Rob Andrade, Matt Adams in his Puretrack Renault Megane, Graham Price in another Megane and other interesting entrants like the Mk1 Ford Focus RS of Matt Jones and Stuart Wright.
For Class B, a quartet of cars will do battle here – Will Abraham and Scott Jeffs’ MINI, the Honda Civic of Trevor Hancock and Brian Watson, Darren Jukes’ BMW Z4, and another Honda Civic in the hands of Rob Phillips and Angus Eddowes. Class C also has a rather compact entry of five cars too, including Ben Taylor’s Mazda MX-5 Mk4 and Garry Wardle’s MINI Challenge R56, but a very curious entry is Ian Cooper and Fraser Gillan in a Daewoo Nexia. Not quite a car you see racing very often!
Over in Class D, Michael Sanford & Andrew Gilligan pitch their Mazda MX-5 Mk3 against the MINI of Martin Smith & Julian Hamer, and Mark Jones in his Renault Clio, but it’s Class E where the real competition is with some of the lowest powered cars making up a large number of the field. They include Citroen C1s, BMW 116 Trophy cars, Daniel & Steven Cogswell’s Nissan Almera, a number of Mazda MX-5s and even Phil & Matt Adcock’s BMW Compact that’s been a previous class winner in ClubSport too. This will certainly be the healthiest and most competitive class battle on track.
Written by Scott Woodwiss
