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HSRCA HISTORIC RACE MEETING
WAKEFIELD PARK 
24TH/ 25TH NOVEMBER 2007

The last weekend in November saw 'Team Hunter' (the sporting arm of the MG Car Club Hunter Region) head south under cloudy skies, to the annual HSRCA Historic race meeting at Wakefield Park near Goulburn. The meeting was a tribute to 'T' type MG's. They attracted a large field and got their own Regularity events to celebrate. Two MGCCHR members dusted off their MGTC's to represent the club in this field. Jeff Redman and Brian George spent the weekend in a titanic battle (though neither hit an iceberg or sank) against one another. Neither one could get away from the other, and at the end of the third event, in a shock decision, Jeff was awarded a 1st place and Brian a 2nd.


The T type MG regularity group

The other Regularity group found both Matt Blanch (in his seriously fast MGB) and me (in my long suffering B). Matt was always at the pointy end of the field and playing with a Porsche 911, twin turbo V12 Jag and an AC Cobra. The Jag would blast off the start line only to self destruct in a lap or two (a wise man once said "it doesn't matter how fast you are, you have to finish to win").

Both the Porsche and the AC were very fast in a straight line but lacked confidence when going around corners (surely the car not the driver). Some exotic car drivers have developed a healthy respect for MGs after Matt's effort.


Potent (yet unreliable) twin turbo V12 Jag leading temporarily Matt and the rest of the field.


Matt chasing the AC Cobra in traffic.

In the picture below you will see me on the dummy (appropriate???) grid contemplating how I can go faster without putting my hand in my pocket. Surely the race tyres I've flogged since early 2004 can't have gone off (treads gone but slicks are supposed to be better aren't they?) and race fuel can't be that much better that servo fuel (and it's $3.30 a litre).


Me contemplating how to go faster without putting my hand in my pocket

In the end I got an hour of track time and drove the car off the trailer at home and that is all you can really ask for (although since I'm asking, a Limited Slip Diff, and a new set of tyres, and...)


Me in 'Monty' leading the pack... temporarily

Many thanks must go to the family and friends that come along to every event and support us. We are the ones that get to go out and have our fun and a big hit of adrenalin, yet they are always there. As you can see from the picture below, I have a daughter with big dreams. Yes you can have one (but only if you pay for it and I can have a drive).


Bronwyn in Bo Bates' Lotus 15... dreaming.

I can't wait to be let out to play with my friends again. Hopefully it will be a bit cooler. The next event on my calendar in the FoSC Historic meeting at the Holy Grail of Australian Motorsport... Mt Panorama, next Easter.

Keep your radiators hot,
Steve Jones.
Sporting Director.