Clubman (racing car class)

Before long, the cars rapidly evolved into highly specialised and very quick sports-racers – retaining the front-engined/rear wheel drive layout, but acquiring in due course wings and slicks.

Unlike endurance-oriented forms of sports car racing, Clubmans tend to run at club-level meetings.

Marques such as Chevron made their debut in the formula and the long-lived series of Mallock U2 cars came to dominate numerically (and often in terms of results).

Over the years, marques such as Gryphon, Centaur, Bladon, Haggispeed, Phantom, Vision, Pulsar and Slique as well as specials like the St Bruno Roughcutter and the Hustler graced the grids with varying degrees of success.

Seeking a more upmarket image, the alternative formula was renamed National Supersports, but over the years grids declined due to increased costs.

Clubmans in the UK continues as a highly popular and affordable form of racing with two race series catering for "Classic" cars (up to and including 1980 running almost exactly as the original formula with classes catering for cars from most periods of the formula's history) and the Clubmans Sports Prototype Championship running in four classes CSP1, CSP2, CSPA and CSPB as described above.

Clubmans has also been popular in Scandinavia since the 80s when Swedish car enthusiast Stefan Mumm bought a Mallock and promoted the formulae.