Roadsports in the 750MC - My Motorsport

Anyone wanting to break into motorsport in the UK will no doubt have looked into the 750 Motor Club. The 750MC is synonymous with British club racing, and has been since its inception in 1939.

In 2025 they ran 31 separate formulae, covering everything from single-make series in the Toyota MR2 Championship and 116 Sprint (among others), through to Historics, Radicals, and even a sim championship.

Kevin Taylor-Beeby competes in their Roadsports category, which is “a mini-endurance championship for sports and saloon cars”. Races are 45-minutes long, with a mandatory pit stop - a chance to swap drivers for those sharing the costs, and a leveller for those taking it on single-handedly.

He, along with his co-driver Adam Headley, compete in a Mazda2. The little hatchback isn’t your average race car for sure, but being a low-cost way into motorsport is something the 750MC prides itself on. With road-going cars available for less than £2,000 and race part packages for less than £3,000, you’re not looking at a massive outlay to get on track. The team Kevin races for, 2RacingUK, even has a race-ready car for £7,500.

Suddenly the Mazda2 seems like a perfect race car. A race car with low power but high affordability is infinitely better than a fast car you can’t afford, and it’s the price that helped Kevin get into it, saying “Between travel expenses, car hire, and race entry between two drivers, we looked at around £480 per round split 50/50 with my co-driver.”.

Of course it’s easier to keep costs lower with more drivers on track, and this means that in Roadsport there’s four classes - ranging from Class D (145bhp/tone) to Class A (300bhp/tonne) - on track at one time.

“I’d say the four classes within the series make it even more hectic than something like Le Mans - you can be in a Mazda2 pushing like hell and have TCR cars and GT4s coming by.”.

This would definitely make a race more interesting but, given that the longest circuit the series raced at in 2025 was Silverstone’s GP circuit at 3.6 miles, while the shortest - Silverstone’s International circuit - comes in at just 1.851 miles, hectic seems correct. With 36 entrants on the <2 mile stretch of tarmac, it’s going to be busy.

For all intents and purposes then, Roadsports at the 750MC seems a great way to get racing - cheaper cars with plenty of spares, ways for multiple drivers to share the cost, and some good track time. Kevin raises another good point though - that for racing in general, this form is almost a comparative bargain, “It’s surprisingly cheaper [compared to] going from rental karts to owner karts.”.

Getting into car racing is the dream of almost anyone who’s ever sat in a rental kart, and while owner karting seems a next logical step, it’s certainly getting more expensive. 

Club100 - the UK’s highest-tier rental karting series - has a few options, with entry into a regional championship running nearly £2,000, while SP60 rounds cost £335 each, with a £57 one-off registration fee. That’s £2,737 for the eight rounds before you’ve even considered any travel (there’s over 315 miles between the two furthest-apart tracks of Clay Pigeon and Ellough Park).

“Of course [doing car racing] you can spend more than owner karts, but if you just want to enter [the lower two] specs and do all the spannering yourself, you’re not looking at it being stupidly expensive like a lot of people think. The paddock is also so much more inviting than people expect.”.

With Roadsports looking like such a good option for cost-effective car racing, what’s next for Kevin? Well, he’s continuing in the series but in a Ford Fiesta ST for 2026. You can find out more about his journey on his Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ktb.msport/