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The catch-all racing club that proves nice guys don't finish last

The Classic Sports Car Club prides itself on stellar driving standards and wide-ranging series, which is why its popularity continues to boom

Matt Kew Mar 1, 2020, 2:37 PM

The Classic Sports Car Club set the gold standard within the national racing scene last year, achieving the highest average grid sizes of any organiser. In a packed market in which some championships could only muster three cars per race, for the CSCC to top 40 entries in its Tin Tops and Magnificent Sevens series on occasion is not to be sniffed at.

That aptly rounded out the previous decade, which will be remembered as a boom period for national motorsport. The monetary values of race cars soared and clubs hit record levels of interest - the CSCC posted an all-time high of 408 entries at Silverstone in 2018.

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Author Matt Kew

Matt Kew is Autosport’s F1 Editor, a role he has held since March 2022 following stints covering Formula E, Extreme E and the British Touring Car Championship.

Matt joined Autosport in 2018 to work predominantly on the magazine, but his relentless quoting of Alan Partridge meant office colleagues soon thought he would be better-suited to increased field work.

Needless to say, Matt had the last laugh when he won the Motorsport UK Young Journalist of the Year Award in 2019.

His interest in motorsport was sparked by regular trips to watch ASCAR crash around Rockingham’s banked oval.

Matt read politics and philosophy at the University of Sheffield - receiving first-class honours for his dissertation assessing the lack of female participation in top-tier motor racing.

He covered a wide variety of national race and rally meetings for Autosport as a freelancer before joining full-time. His best efforts to argue the merits of historic racing are undone by a questionable taste in music and James Bond actors.