The Path of Growth of the Macau Autosports Club in a Decade
Year 1985 to Year 1987

It all started at a gathering of a handful automobile sport fans when it was seriously considered whether the fire of passion for autosports in Macau could be ignited. After almost 20 years of waiting, the Macau Autosports Club (MAC) was at last brought into being. It was an association formed entirely by devoted supporters of the automobile sport. The establishment of this organization was officially signed and approved at the Registration Bureau in Taipa on 17th April 1985. It was furthermore registered with the Macau Sports Committee and included in its dutiful activities “…to organize wireless remote control and four-wheel automobile sport, in addition to items in the Macau Grand Prix…”.

There were heaps of things to do to start the ball rolling, such as membership drive, drawing up realistic urgent basic requirements, looking into and formulating regulations for the upcoming race events, and searching for a venue suitable for automobile sport training and/or race.

Initial contacts were therefore made with the Government to request the authority to provide a provisional site in Taipa as the venue for staging the first show of cross-country motorcycling on 8th February 1987. Through that show, a number of organizational shortcomings were exposed. But it should not be forgotten that the volunteering organizers were new hands at organizational work. Shortfalls were naturally unavoidable in the circumstances. After all, the very first competition event was carried out.

Worthy of the archive were a set of manually designed drawings of the simple-outlook cross-country motorcycling racing track, a set of regulations revised in the light of the competition regulations in force then in Hong Kong and Portugal, letters submitted to and from the Macau Sports Committee reporting on the activities of this competition and the collection of cuttings of newspapers coverage.

On the other hand, there was one thing concerning the future of MAC. It was to make the application to join the Portugal Motorcycling Federation and it was accepted. The Club has thus become the only organization in Macau given authorization to organize motorcycling race events.

During 1987, a committee of the Club once again approached the Government to seek approval for using the Club’s proposed site, where there were basic conditions, as the venue for go-kart racing. The site, situated next to the Macau Trotting Club, was concrete-paved and earmarked