Chelmsford to host stage 14 of the Jaguar E-Type 2018 Round Britain Coastal Drive

28 Aug Chelmsford to host stage 14 of the Jaguar E-Type 2018 Round Britain Coastal Drive

The organiser of the 2018 ‘Round Britain Coastal Drive, Supporting Prostate Cancer UK’, the Jaguar E-type Club, has announced that the 19-day event will be flagged away from its starting point at Pendine Sands, Carmarthenshire, on September 17th by land speed record-breaker Don Wales.

The 4,000-mile tour around the circumference of the British mainland was originally created in 2016 to raise funds for the charity Prostate Cancer UK, and Don has kindly agreed to support the event after recently undergoing a successful prostatectomy. The 2018 Coastal Drive aims to add a further £70,000 to the £150,000 raised for the charity in the event’s first two years.

The Pendine Sands starting point is where Don Wales set the UK speed record for an electric car in 2000 at 137 mph (touching 160 mph), and the world speed record for a ride-on lawnmower in 2010 at 87.8 mph! Don agrees these unusual accomplishments might be explained by his genes: he is the grandson of Sir Malcolm Campbell MBE and nephew of Donald Campbell CBE, two of Britain’s greatest land and water speed record-holders.

From Pendine, the Round Britain Coastal Drive will go as far north as John O’Groats and as far south as Land’s End taking in Lancashire, Cumbria, Ross and Cromarty , Sutherland, Ayrshire, Inverness, Dundee and Angus, Edinburgh, Northumberland, Norfolk, Yorkshire, Essex, Sussex, Hampshire, Devon, Cornwall and Somerset  before concluding in the town of Tenby, on the opposite side of Carmarthen Bay to Pendine, on October 5th. The event comprises 19 individual stages, each of approximately 180 miles distance, and will be driven sequentially by groups of Jaguar E-types in the style of a relay. Most entrants choose to drive one, two or three legs, but this year six crews have committed to driving the complete drive.