August 2026
Team Hunter member Bruce Melville recently competed in the HSRCA Sydney Classic run at SMSP Eastern Creek on the Gardner GP circuit. Conditions for this event were near perfect. Bruce was driving his Lotus Elan S3 & competing in Regularity. The Elan run perfectly all weekend & Bruce got two 4th & one fifth placing which was a good effort in a highly competitive field.
Bruce also competed in the NSW Road Racing Club 10 hr regularity relay event a couple of weeks after the Sydney Classic. He was invited to join a team by the Group N historic group. It was run over Saturday & Sunday with practice during most of Saturday & the event starting at 5.30 pm with 4hrs under lights then continuing on Sunday from 10am to 4pm. For this event Bruce gave the Elan a spell & drove his Alfa 105, the rest of the team consisted of 4 Toranas & 1 Volvo, one of the Toranas failed to start & 2 more died on the track, so the remaining team members had plenty track time. About 1.00 the heavens opened & the event was red flagged due to heavy rain. After the red flag was withdrawn Bruce’s team decided they‘d had enough & decided to withdraw due to the dangerous conditions. Thanks to Bruce for his report on the 2 events.
Great to see Austin Blanch’s MGA race ready again & Austin is entered in the upcoming August GEAR meeting, Paul Embleton will also compete in this event in his MGB.
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Remember drive them don’t hide them enjoy your MG.
MG is the Marque of friendship
Cheers Gary