1/32 British Open Champions 

There have been open meetings just about as long as there have been slot racing clubs.  Indeed clubs held open meetings in the early 1960s prior to the first "Nationals".     Various Championships have been organized over the years, the British Open Championship has been the premier Open Meeting series in the Country since its launch in 1976.  Although this was not strictly speaking organized by ECRA,   early championships were run by the ECRA Competitions Secretary Bill Stevenson to ECRA rules.   Graham Lane took a crucial step in getting the championship going by donating the trophy. The championship was run over a number of rounds on club tracks throughout the country.  A grading system was introduced in 1981, Tony Mills taking the inaugural main grade title.  So far no records have been found of who won the other 1981 and 82 "grade" titles - so if anybody out there knows we'd like to hear from you! *Thanks to Adrian for spotting the mistake in the 1982 result.

Interest was fading in the early 80s, and there was no championship for a few years.  Enthusiasm was rekindled once ECRA had been re-launched as BSCRA in 1984.  The British Open Championship was re-launched  in the Autumn of  1985.  The first season of these Championships started at ARRA and finished at Vauxhall  in the Autumn of 1986. That first year had 7 rounds, 5 of them at clubs which held rounds of the 2000 BOC. In the first year the National Premier - Main - Novice driver grading system was used, the separate A, B and C grades for BOC were introduced for the 1987 season.   The 1/32 BOC was simply known as the BOC up till 1999, when  the 1/24 British Open Championship (1/24 BOC) was launched.

The  1/32 "BOC" is based on results at the major open meetings, with 3 classes run at each meeting (Saloon, Grand Prix and Sports/GT). The  1/32 BOC is run on club tracks, originally  with 8 rounds, more recently with 6 rounds. As well as the overall champion, there are awards for the best Main Grade and Intermediate Grade drivers. (The BSCRA and BOC grades were later merged.     In the table below " main grade"  includes the BOC grade B champions, and  "Intermediate grade"  includes the BOC grade C champions)  In 2022 a  Restricted class championship was introduced for Intro 32 cars with appropriate class bodies for Saloon & Sports and F2 cars in Grand Prix

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