How can it already be May? Time seems to be flying by at the moment and almost two months of the national motorsport season have been completed. And it’s great to be able to say that after two years of coronavirus-induced delays (at this point in 2020, the season commencing was still months away, while last year it was in its infancy). With the overwhelming majority of club categories having held at least one event, it makes now a good moment to reflect on the early trends seen so far in 2022.
While the pandemic may not be having such an impact on motorsport at the present time (although cases remain high in the UK), there have been other challenges for organisers to negotiate. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the continuing uncertainty in Eastern Europe have done nothing to help what was already a dramatically worsening cost of living crisis. Therefore, given the difficult economic climate, you would perhaps expect entries to be down a little from 2021’s generally high levels, as people up and down the country rein in non-essential spending. But the opposite seems true from the early data.
