Residents Information
Resident Liaison Teams will be communicating with residents throughout 2023 and on request, please email us
Residents Update December 18th 2022 - The rally organisation team is currently working on the 2023 and are hand delivering a Happy Christmas newsletter to all residents living on stages this week. If you do not recieve a newseletter please use the Resident News Letter link below or join our residents emailing list. The link is at the bottom of the page If you have any questions or would like to volunteer please email 3shiresstages@cheltmc.com
Newsletter delivered week of December 18th 2022
Charity requests for 2023 are now open via charity requests page
"Meet Us" Sessions for 2023 to be confirmed New “Meet Us” sessions are being arranged over then next few months. Please come along discuss the rally routes, resident access times and any other aspect of the rally you wish to raise, as we would like to meet you all. If queries cannot be answered on the day, it will be passed to the Senior Officials to personally respond.
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If you would like to arrange a "Meet Us" event then please contact the rally at 3shiresstages@cheltmc.com
The initial "Meet Us" meeting dates we have arranged are as follows:
TBC
Bromesberrow residents can contact the Bromesberrow estate office or come along to one of the other sessions.
All future “Meet Us” dates will be published on this website and also on the Cheltenham Motor Club Facebook page.
Rally and Club Officials
For each “Meet Us”, a number of the senior officials from the rally and Cheltenham Motor Club will be available, so please do come and introduce yourselves to:
Clerks - Dan Lister, Keith Richings and Pete Henness
Event Director – Kevin Smith
Safety Officer - Pete Self, Rod Coleman, Alan Corns
Secretary of Meeting/Asst. Clerk of Course – Elaine Ward
Other motorsport organisers and volunteers - names will be confirmed for specific "Meet Us".
Over the next few months, residents will receive more letters and additional information.
We look forward to meeting everyone and responding to queries
Residents News Letters
Residents News December 2022
3 Shires Stages Closed Road Rally – September 17, 2023
Dear Resident,
The 3 Shires Stages Rally would like to wish all its residents a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thank you for your ongoing support
Thank you everyone for your understanding and support over the decision to postpone and subsequently cancel the 3 Shires Stages Rally on September 18th 2022, following the death of Queen Elizabeth ll. This was a difficult decision to make as the rally was ready to run but, in the circumstances, it was the correct decision with the national mourning period.
Preparations for 2023 Rally are underway
Cheltenham Motor Club has now begun to organise the 3 Shires Stages Closed Road Rally for September 17th 2023. The first stage of the process is a Motorsport UK Consultation which will run from January to March 2023 when all the county, parish, ward, and district councils will be contacted by Motorsport UK with details of the rally.
Residents have the opportunity to feed into their local councils during this period or directly with rally volunteers to discuss individual queries directly with residents would like to contact us initially on this email 3shiresstages@cheltmc.com.
The 3 Shires Stages rally and the governing body for motorsport in this country, Motorsport UK place great emphasis on the views and opinions of residents and businesses who live and work on the rally stages.
Residents are invited to join the Resident Liaison Teams
Following the greater engagement with residents in 2022, the rally volunteers would welcome any residents onto the Residents Liaison Team who would like to be involved at the beginning canvassing opinion, communicating up to date information with other residents on or close to the rally route, nearby to where you live.
If you would like to be part of the Resident Liaison Team and find out more about the role please email 3shiresstages@cheltmc.com and a member of organisation team will be in touch, please don’t forget to include where you live, your email address and a contact telephone number please.
“Meet Us” Dates for 2023
Following the success of the “Meet Us” sessions in the individual rally stages and also in Ledbury Town centre, the rally will be identifying future dates and venues. If you would like to arrange a session on a particular date for your community, please send us email and we will do our best to arrange it.
This allows everyone to meet the organisers and motorsport officials to discuss the rally routes, resident access times and any other aspect of the rally you wish to raise, as we would like to meet you all. If queries cannot be answered on the day, it will be passed to the Senior Motorsport Officials to personally respond.
Get Closer and become a Marshal in 2023
We love your energy for the rally and would like to invite residents to have the opportunity of becoming a member of the “orange army” in 2023. This year you will have the opportunity to attend a local marshal’s training session which will qualify you to be an accredited Motorsport UK rally marshal. Alternatively, the training, can be completed anytime on line via the Motorsport UK training web site www.motorsportuk.org/volunteers/marshals/
The rally is happy to support residents through these processes. All new marshals will be buddied up with an experienced rally marshal on the day, to support and guide them.
If you are interested, then please let us know by contacting marshal.team@cheltmc.com
Being a Motorsport UK registered marshal means you can also marshal on other UK rallies
Charity Requests for 2023
Requests are now open for community based projects, please submit via www.cheltmc.com/3-shires-stages-rally/charity-donations/ and complete the form.
If you have any questions or comments, please email us on 3shiresstages@cheltmc.com
The 2023 3 Shires Stages Rally is in partnership with EMCOS, Cirencester Car Club, Craven Motor Club, Owen Motoring Club, Devizes and District Motor Club
Issued by Event & Club Director on behalf of Cheltenham Motor Club, Kevin C Smith on 14th December 2022
Frequently Asked Questions
This is the section of road that is closed to the public for the competitors to compete on. At the start of the stage competitors are given their “start time” at the end of the stage they are given their “stage finish” time. At the end of the competition the time are added up and the ones with quickest time are the winners.
The event will be run by experienced and licenced motorsport organisers under the rules and regulations of the sport’s governing body Motorsport UK.
The road will be closed between 6 am and 8 pm but the rally will facilitate access at times during the day. If the stages can be cleared down and road is safe to return to public, it may be open earlier, then 8 pm time. Always check with the resident liaison officer before travelling on the road.
Prior to the rally all the stages are risk assessed for safety by experienced rally organisers and the appropriate protection is built into the safety plan. If you have any specific concerns you would like to discuss, please contact us on 3shiresstages@cheltmc.com and one of the clerks of the course will contact you.
During the rally, the first point of call for all residents is the stage resident liaison officer whose details will be available in the resident’s handbook prior to the event.
During road closure the rally will schedule times during the day when residents can access their properties.
The rally has a dedicated safety network in place which will consist of a marshal near to residents’ properties, a radio car and a direct contact phone number to the stage resident Liaison officer to request access. Residents will be asked to travel in the direction of the rally stage during the day to ensure their safety.
The rally will engage its own emergency and medical crews (doctors, medics, paramedics etc) behind all incidents whether this is rally or resident related incident. In 2021 a resident was taken seriously ill during the rally and the rally medical team took the decision to transport the patient to hospital to limit the delay for treatment.
The rally sees local residents as the main safety concern
If you would like to find out more about the Hills Ford 3 Shires Stages Rally, membership of the Cheltenham Motor Club or any of our events, please complete the enquiry form below, and one of our friendly team will contact you.