Brecon Motor Club will once again organise the 2026 Old Forge Garage Gremlin Historic Rally on the later date of Saturday August 15^t

The event is open to crews with Motorsport UK Interclub licences and the Clubman’s class is open to crews with a Motorsport UK Clubman’s licence. The event is a round of the HRCR Clubman’s Road Rally Championship. We were very honoured to receive the award for the best event in the 2025 championship and will be striving to organise an event of that standard once again. Our thanks go to Tim and Brian Dennis of Old Forge Garage for what must be one of the longest enduring sponsorship partnerships in rallying.

For 2026 we have reverted to a one-day format and we plan to carry out scrutiny and documentation on the Friday evening in the market town of Talgarth with a trailer park nearby which will also be in close proximity to the finish at the Old Railway Garden Centre in Three Cocks.

On the day of the rally, we plan to start the event near Brecon with a bacon butty and a cup of tea or coffee to prepare competitors for the day ahead. A mixture of tests and regularities will follow with plotting being kept at a sympathetic level! The roads we plan to use will be a mix of new and old with the traditional visits to the traffic free roads of the Epynt ranges. Lunch with a view is planned and a curry will be on offer at the garden centre on return. We hope that you can come and join us, it should be a great day out.

Fairfield Motor Co. Epynt Hillclimbs

14th & 15th June, 2025

In 2007 Martin Leonard and Stuart Cardell started the first Epynt Hillclimb supported at the time by Dennis Motorsport. 

The track used is the steepest in mainland United Kingdom and offers a great challenge to all that attempt it. The event has always been popular and attracts a wide range of machinery and drivers. The beauty of the hillclimb is that you can use virtually any car, from your road going every day transport through to highly modified specials. The event is now supported by the Fairfield Motor Company and enthusiastic proprietor, John Morgan, brings a pair of cars to compete in each year.

Regulations for the 2025 Fairfield Motor Company Epynt Hillclimb are now available.

Black Mountains Classic Tour

31st August, 2025

In 2015, club officers Chris Phillips and Martin Leonard embarked on adding another event to the calendar of Brecon MC.

The club already promoted a stage rally, road rally, hill climb and classic show alongside the popular navigational scatter series so the thought was to try something a bit different and slightly less stressful.

The objective was to entice members and others who owned classic non- competition cars to get them out of the garage and enjoy the wonderful Black Mountains area of the Brecon Beacons National Park.

The Historic Rally Car Register were already engaged in a Tour Series nationally and after a successful application the Black Mountains Tour formed a part of their series and it’s proved a successful liaison ever since. The more recent tours attracting more HRCR members than any others in the series.

The route planning has always been the more straightforward element being blessed with some of best drivers’ roads in the country but the difficulty is finding venues that can cater for 60 cars and 120 people who need to be well feed and watered during the course of the day - something that’s been achieved well over the years.

In general, the Black Mountains Tour commences at a breakfast venue with a driver briefing followed by three sections each approximately 40 miles in length interspersed with refreshment halts and culminating with a final meal for all finishers and a small souvenir of the event.

Entrants are issued with a tulip style road book and a rally plate and start at one-minute intervals in age related order. Whilst we like to see vehicles that were registered before 1991 other more modern classics are certainly very welcome at the organiser’s discretion.

So come on, get those classics out from the garage and give them a run alongside

like-minded people!

Brecon Motor Club Motor Show

January 24th 2026

In 1968 BMC held a Motor Show in the Market Hall, Brecon, present was Bill Bengry’s Mark 2 Cortina before it competed in the London to Sydney Marathon, along with Fords version of a Ferrari – the Ford GT40 – so named because it was only 40 inches high and Local rally stars with their Mini Coopers.

In 2024 Malcolm Rich found an archived press release posted in the local Brecon & Radnor Express dated 1921 of the club organising a Hill Climb up the Warren Road for Motor Cycles and a few cars. The Club is now recognised by MSUK as being over 100 years old and one of the oldest in UK.

This gave birth to and the theme for another Car Show held on the 25th January 2025 - the first since 1968 to be held in the Market Hall. Bill Bengry’s Mark 2 Cortina was again present along with one of the Mini Coopers.

The 100 years of Motorsport was so successful it has been decided to make it an annual event.