MG Car Club of South Australia
thanks to the MGCC flaggies who worked in the rain to keep the track safe .
Murray Stephenson
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Super Sprint Rnd 1 Mallala By John Davies
he 1st Super Sprint round for the year was held on 12th March and MG CC had 10 entries in a large field of 94 with 6 MG ' s and 4 non Marque cars .
The MSCA was holding a Come & Try as part of the Sprint and with an additional 24 entries it made for a large field but the MSCA did a great job as usual and it was a very well run event . It was our turn to provide Flaggies for the day and a big thankyou to Alan Cardnell , Dean Hosking , Wes Bray and Craig Steel who assisted in this area .
The forecast for the day was for possible showers / thunderstorms and although it looked optimistic early the heavens opened during the drivers briefing making a very wet and slippery ( and entertaining for the drivers ) first run .
Fastest MG for the day went to Laurie , Garry Bolt had his new car out and completed 14 laps this event , a big improvement on just 1 lap at the last event last year . Garry still has some work to do sorting the car with fuel starvation and overheating issues ( overheating on a British car , No couldn ' t be !) Rob had a Good day in the newly acquired ZS and had a tight tussle with Dick Manning and both enjoyed a great day of sprinting . Lindsay ran well in the TC and it was great to see Tony back out in his MG B .
In the Non Marque group Scott had the Circuit Excel out with the full 3 Driver team running to test and set the car for the upcoming Bathurst 6Hr . The car ran well and all 3 drivers did 20 laps with good consistent times . Good Luck at Bathurst guys . Craig had issues all day loosing alternator belts and finally also breaking the main belt and only managed 2 laps for the day but still got to drive the car home . Jason had a solid day and again made the top 10 in the Batmobile . I had a good run in sprint 2 but broke the right rear diff mounting bar and decided to call it a day to prevent any further damage to the car .
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Driver Car Time Laurie Houghton MGBV8 1:25.34 Gary Bolt MGBV * 1:29.64 Rob Hall MGZS 1:30.14 Dick Manning MGF 1:30.34 Lindsay Hick MGTC Special 1:42.70 Tony Freckelton MGB 1:43.16 Non Marque John Davies Lancer Evo 8 1:16.18 Jason Edwards Lotus Exige 1:20.15 Scott Stephenson Circuit Excel 1:29.97 Craig Ruediger Ford XA GT 1:40.98