the track is owned by the bugatti owners' club (boc), founded in 1929, who were looking for a permanent home and bought the land in 1937. the club had previously run events at lewes and on the chalfont heights estate, chalfont st peter, buckinghamshire. the club also ran a one-off event at joel park, northwood hill, middlesex, on 22 june 1935, which was won by richard ormonde shuttleworth, on a bugatti, in a time of 30.16 sec. the boc planned to develop dancer's end, near tring, hertfordshire, but an event there scheduled for 20 june 1936 had to be cancelled. "motor sport" reported in december 1937: