The British Drag Racing Hall of Fame is a limited company & The British Drag Racing Hall of Fame Benevolent Fund is a registered charity.

Limited companies don’t form themselves and charities don’t register themselves just by magic. They require a degree of knowledge and expertise, and indeed of perseverance, to achieve fruition, and the creation of both these entities for us has been the work of one man.

Many of you will know Simon Groves, first as the pit reporter for Eurodragster.com, then as the website’s editor and proprietor, from which he retired this past winter. Nine years ago, it was our great good fortune at the Hall of Fame that Simon chose to join us in managing the organisation.

Having served in his professional life as an accountant in the City of London, Simon used his skills first to form the limited company for us, then to establish the Benevolent Fund and register it with the Charities Commission as an official charity. Further to that, he set up and handled all the accountancy requirements for both entities. His work on the Hall of Fame’s behalf has been inestimable and invaluable and we are indebted to him for his service.

Simon stepped away from his Hall of Fame responsibilities earlier this year to spend more time enjoying life with his wife, Ros, especially their musical lives together. Violins and Drag Racing aren’t the most obvious bedfellows, but Simon does have a variety of strings to his bow.

But we didn’t want to let him get away that easily, so we’ve decided to create a special award for him as a token of our gratitude and respect. We hope he will take this trophy home with him and display it with pride, so that every time he visits his smallest room, he’ll be reminded of us.