History ......
The club was founded thirty-three years ago, at its conception it was a grass track club called the Peterborough and District Grass Track Car Club.
The Circuit was approximately two thirds of a mile long and we had to employ a chicane to slow the cars to a safer speed. The safety fence at this time was just posts with old tyres threaded on them. Race control was a double Decker bus with lap scorers etc. on the upper deck, and the track was grass. This was fine until late in the season when we saw a lot more rain and we ended up having to pull some cars out who had got stuck in the mud while racing !
This
was endured for a few seasons, until we took the decision to relay the track.
We turned the layout through ninety degrees, made it shorter and laid brick
dust to make a shale type track. Also at this time, we changed name to Motor
Sports Promotions. The surface was a big improvement on the old dirt track
but it was still not ideal, the corners rutted very badly.
In 1976 the decision was taken to lay concrete on the pits bend as this was the worst affected. The following year the city bend came in for the same treatment with the straight remaining brick dust. As each year went by, a little more of the straights were laid to concrete until finally, in 1982, the circuit was now a hard track and sported an Armco safety barrier.
This was when the next name change came about, with the club now being called Alwalton Raceway Peterborough.
The next
change came in 1992. With the concrete surface starting to crack, it was decided
to lay hot rolled asphalt on to the 
concrete
base ..... this was the first improvement that had not been carried out by
the members. The double decker bus (race control) was also removed at this
time and replaced with a two story structure, housing race control on the
upper deck and a club shop on the lower level.
The club also purchased their own Ambulance to supplement the St. John's Ambulance. We now also have our own Fire Engineand four Tractors for breakdowns.
Volunteers continue to do all the work on the track and the running of race meetings, for which we would like to give thanks.
If you have any old photographs from the early days at Alwalton, please contact us by clicking HERE and we'll display them on this page.