Race Car Insurance

[StewRat]

Not exactly technical but important ...

Do you guys insure your race cars? If so, how?

My T5 van is insured with specialist insurers - Brentacre (the only ones who understood adding seats and windows to a panel van and using it as a daily).

They were very willing to insure my race-only car against fire, theft, damage, agreed value from receipts - in the (not beside house, council) lockup, on the trailer, right up to the event gates.
For 90GBP pa.
Seemed like a really good deal.

"All we need is a chassis number."

Which is underneath a dirty great welded rollcage plate.

I've emailed VOSA to see if there is any way of getting a new chassis number allocated but no reply so far.

How do you handle this?

Stewart

[leec]

Up until recently I have been for the last 15 years an absolute advocate of brentacre having 4 cars insured with them.
The way they have handled (or not) a couple of claims on my wife's non fault accidents over the last 12 months it would make me think twice about using them.

Any chassis number would do surely? Just buy a bare chassis?
Lee

[Tourist]

Can you not get one via the numberplate in the YouTube video?

[Neil Davies]

Stewart, as it's a race only car, not for road use, stamp your own. It shouldn't have to conform to DVLA specs - how would you get on for a scratch built dragster that had never been a car? Something like SRR2016001 should be fine. SRR for Stew Rat Racing, 2016 is the year and 001 because it's your first racecar!

[StewRat]

Stewart, as it's a race only car, not for road use, stamp your own. It shouldn't have to conform to DVLA specs - how would you get on for a scratch built dragster that had never been a car? Something like SRR2016001 should be fine. SRR for Stew Rat Racing, 2016 is the year and 001 because it's your first racecar!

I had wondered about that - sounds like a plan as that amount of peace of mind is worth having, especially for 90 quid.
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