Amongst the marques more famous races was victory in the Nelson Ledges 24-hour race in Ohio when, against a field including works teams from Honda and Mazda, a four-man team from Caterham (including both Jez Coates and Robert Nearn) won by seven laps (after 990 laps) in a modified Vauxhall HPC.
After dominating open class races for decades a one-make championship for Caterhams was begun in 1986 and won by Kelvin Foy.
In 2002, an R400 won its class (and came 11th overall out of 200 starters) at the 24 Hours Nürburgring race by 10 laps, ahead of competition that included Porsche and BMW racecars, leading, once again, to a ban on entry in subsequent years.
For £26,495 (2019 price), entrants get a modified Roadsport kit (a factory-built option is available for extra cost) with a sealed Ford Sigma engine and 5-speed gearbox.
Some minor modifications are permitted to the car, including fitting a rear anti-roll bar and sticky Avon ZZS tyres.
One of the rounds takes place at a European circuit with recent visits to Zolder, Zandvoort, Spa-Francorchamps and Nürburgring.
In its first two years it was a multi-discipline series with the rounds being made up of sprints, hillclimbs and circuit races, similar to the Caterham Scholarship format.
Off circuit the club works hard to promote a friendly / sociable paddock, with frequent formal and informal social events; on-circuit the focus is on fun, fair, close and competitive Caterham racing where the cars come back into the paddock under their own power and with all of the same parts still attached in the condition they went out in.
To make sure that happens CGRC have a Driving Standards Team (DST) in place to supplement the clerk at each race meeting.
The DST brief new members to the club, offering advice/guidance, but also have a range of sanctions available, including ultimately the suspension of racing membership.
[3] - previous racing members include Jon Barnes (British GT Champion and current Caterham test driver and 2002 Super Graduates runner up), current BTCC driver Oli Jackson, and Caterham's own Simon Lambert (2002 Super Graduates Champion).
Current classes are: Based on the Caterham Motorsport 310R specification with the 1600cc Ford Sigma TiVCT (generating approx.
Many of the upgrades are optional (wide track suspension, quick steering rack, brake bias valve and race dampers/springs) so you need not do everything at once (or at all).
No changes from the standard specification are allowed, tyre limits are enforced and all have sealed engine units putting the emphasis firmly on driving ability rather than car modification.
[5][6] For the 2018 season it merged with Campeonato Nacional De Automovilismo (CNA) and the drivers competed against each other within their own Caterham category as well as the other cars in the overall race.