Shelsley Walsh has been holding meetings of this type for a number of years now, roughly once a month from February to October, carefully timed so as not to conflict with the other events held at the venue, where for the past couple of years, it has been necessary to pre-book a place.
That is certainly the case for the popular Breakfast Clubs held at the picturesque Shelsley Walsh site, home of the Midland Automobile Club and Britain’s oldest motor-sport venue with a history going back to 1904. There can be absolutely no doubt that the formula has found huge public appeal, and many of the larger and more established ones have found that they have had to introduce an element of formality, some choosing to focus on a specific and many now requiring pre-booking and limiting the number of cars that can attend, as an ever-increasing number of participants have caused space constraints and traffic issues at several of the venues. Even so, this means that each venue typically holds between six and nine of these events a year. Some, of course, take place more frequently than others, with the majority of them being held monthly, though more than a few of them don’t take place during the winter months. If you were to document all the Breakfast Club events, adding in those referred to sometimes as Cars and Coffee, which take place in the UK, it would be a very long list indeed, and one that would continue to grow as more and more of these gatherings spring up around the country.