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Silverstone Start This Easter Weekend For Exciting New Legends Cars Season
More than six months since the fast and furious Legends Cars Championship concluded a superb 2025 season, the immensely popular 5/8 scale pocket rockets are back and ready to do it all again with the new season getting underway this Easter weekend, 4th/5th April, at Silverstone National. Six fantastic Legends Cars races are in store at the Northamptonshire track as part of a busy MSVR weekend, and heading the entry will be the returning and defending Champion Tyler Read (Weedon) who is looking to become only the eighth driver [...]
JLM Liquid Tools And Vital Equipment Expand Legends Cars Support With New Prizes
Legends Cars Championship partners JLM Liquid Tools and Vital Equipment have increased their support of the all-action category, as well as the high-profile inter-series Legends Cars Elite Cup, for 2026 with each company providing significant prize bundles at every round of the coming season. Kalimex Ltd, which is owned by long-time Legends Cars competitor Mike Schlup and is the UK importer for JLM Liquid Tools, has confirmed it will support the new ‘Team of the Day’ award at each of the 13 rounds to be contested. The prize package [...]
Champion Read Heads List Of First 10 Confirmed 2026 Legends Racers
Tyler Read (Weedon) will embark on a much-anticipated defence of his Legends Cars Championship and Elite Cup titles when the 2026 season begins in early April, with the first 10 drivers for the new campaign officially confirmed today. Heading a list of familiar entries for the eagerly awaited new Legends Cars season, Read returns with the No.1 plate on his popular bright red ‘Lighting McRead’ livery – a nod to the Lighting McQueen character in Disney Pixar film franchise Cars – and will be aiming to mount a successful [...]
Legends Cars UK Founder Cooper To Retire – Passing Baton To New Owner Gibson
Phil Cooper, founder of the immensely popular Legends Cars Championship, has announced an emotional retirement from motorsport – with two-time Legends Cars Champion Will Gibson taking full ownership and control of the category. Confirming the news at last night’s Legends Cars Championship Awards, at the Hilton East Midlands Airport, Cooper announced the coming season will be something of a ‘farewell tour’ for him as he passes the baton and works alongside new series owner Gibson during the 13-round campaign. Gibson, of course, took over the role of Commercial Director [...]
New Prize Package Announced For 2026 Legends Cars Championship
Legends Cars Championship organisers are pleased to announce a significant £12,000 prize package for the eagerly awaited 2026 season, with key prizes up for grabs for the overall top three finishers in the outright title battle as well as the top three drivers from the Masters Cup division. Following the confirmation of two-time Legends Cars Champion Will Gibson’s involvement in the running of the series with long-time Legends Cars promoter Phil Cooper, which was announced at the conclusion of the 2025 campaign, the delivery of a structured prize pot [...]
Significant Change For Legends Cars As Belcher Departs Commercial Director Role
Following 15 years as a key part of the management structure for the Legends Cars Championship, former British Touring Car Championship racer Simon Belcher has announced he is stepping down from his role as Commercial Director in order to focus on his own international race programme. As a past Legends Cars racer himself, and BTCC competitor, Belcher – who presently races in the Jet Ski World Series – took over the commercial side of Legends Cars racing in the UK in 2010 to enable championship founder and owner Phil [...]