The 2026 Cambridge Classic Run will take place on 11th April.
the event is a round of the Historic Rally Car Register‘s Scenic Tour series.
Welcome to the 16th year of our annual Classic Car Run, the opening event of the 2026 HRCR Scenic Tours Series. Taking an east to west route of approximately 90 miles through the counties of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire, the run will pass the locations of several airfields within this area that served the country well during WW2, some of which are still in active use.
Starting at The Dragonfly Hotel on the outskirts of Bury St Edmunds there will be a half-way break at Bottisham Airfield Museum, a site that also has close motor sport connections with Cambridge Car Club, before finishing once again at the Shuttleworth Collection just outside Biggleswade.
the Shuttleworth Collection
The collection was founded in 1928 in memory of Richard Shuttleworth, a successful GP driver and aeronautic pioneer, and includes many historic aircraft and motor vehicles. The entry fee for the run will include entrance to the museum.
Hot drinks and breakfast rolls will of course be provided at the start; likewise tea/coffee and cake at Bottisham, the entry fee also including entry to this museum, much of which focuses on the USAAF use of the airfield and the P-51 Mustang fighters that flew from there. Vouchers will be included in the entrant packs for exchange at these venues together with a food vouchers that can be exchanged at the Shuttleworth café.
The event roadbook will provide easy-to-follow tulip diagrams for every junction where there is a choice of direction and will include notes on the various points of interest you will pass during the tour.
From the surplus funds arising from the event, we intend making a donation to St Nicholas Hospice Care in Bury St Edmunds.
Over past events we have donated around £11,000 to the Hospice.
