2026 Tamar Trial
The Arkley-MG in action on Legacy Hill (Photo: Vince Feeney) Last year’s Tamar Trial won the ACTC Trial of the Year Award and for 2026 the Launceston & North Cornwall Motor Club sought to improve the event even further. For years, there’s been growing criticism that trials are becoming more focussed on giving the top flight competitors a severe challenge. That’s fine except some of us have been finding a few observed sections too extreme. In some events, anything less than a Class 8 special is unlikely to see the top of a hill and that puts people off. Some sections have been car breakers. From left to right, Jon Moores' CMR Special, Simon Oates' Liege, Paul Watson's Dutton, Nick Symons Singer Chamois and Ryan Tonkin's Class 4 Beetle. This year’s Tamar Trial took steps to address this. It still targeted the national contenders with hills of appropriate difficulty while giving the rest of us the chance to clear a section but still feel we’d been challenged ...