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MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 4:23 pm
by Keith Williams
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Sunday 9th April

The first race meeting of the MG Car Club 2017 season will be at Donington Park on Sunday the 9th April.

Races will include
MGCC MG Trophy Championship (DH)
MGCC Peter Best Insurance MG Cup (DH)
MGCC Watt Electrical BCV8 Championship with Thoroughbred Sports Car Championship (DH)
MGCC Drayton Manor Park MG Metro Cup
MGCC Lackford Engineering Midget & Sprite Challenge
MGCC Cockshoot Cup
Equipe GTS

Hospitality will be on offer for hot drinks & biscuits in one of the garages.

If racing allows, there will be parade laps for MG Car Club members, so bring your club membership card with you if you are interested in experiencing the circuit at the lunch break. Sign on for the parade laps will be in the hospitality area.

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 5:18 pm
by Db09
Hi Keith
We would love to attend
We have never been to a mg car club racing day .
Do we need to buy tickets or register for the event ?
Any info would be welcome
Many thanks Bob and Diane

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 5:51 pm
by Keith Williams
No need to register. Tickets can be bought on the gate. It is an informal day, just turn up, park and enjoy the day.
Basic data can be found on the Donington site http://www.donington-park.co.uk/events/ ... 095/#event
More information will come out nearer the day via the MG Car Club website and I will post it on here when it comes out.

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 6:32 pm
by c13amb
Hi keith
Is there any infield parking for us? It would be better and more interesting to be together certainly prior to circuit laps if there are any!

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 6:41 pm
by colintf
Infield parking would be a great benefit
I hope Donington play ball
:)

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Sun Mar 05, 2017 7:08 pm
by Keith Williams
Sadly, it has been many years since Donington has offered infield parking for the club.
I will enquire through the main club but I don't expect there to be any this year. There has not been a separate MG area set up either for some time.
For the circuit laps, cars meet up at the race assembly area prior to going around the track

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Mon Mar 06, 2017 5:54 am
by colintf
Thanks Keith, and fingers crossed :)

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:27 pm
by Keith Williams
Sadly no infield parking is arranged and the paddock area will be full of race cars.

The infield is still not fully prepared and I suspect they don't want to put on the security to operate the infield tunnel like they do for Donington Historic and other large events.

I suggest that people head towards the high lighted area on the picture and hopefully we can get the MGs parking together if the rest of the visitors start parking closer to the main entrance first. I will be there early so will get the flag up to 'stake our claim'
Donington Parking - MG.jpg

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 4:25 pm
by Keith Williams
Some large grids building up for the event.

The Trophy race has 30 cars registered so far, with 28 in the Peter Best Challenge, 21 in the Cockshoot Cup and '48' in the Equipe GTS. A couple of races are not filling up so fast but looks like a good days racing will be had.

It will be good to see a couple of LE500s and 3 MGFs competing in the Cockshoot Cup.

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2017 12:37 pm
by Keith Williams
The time table is attached along with the paddock plan & entries list.
Should be some very interesting racing going on with the grid sizes in some of the races.
Donington-Timetable-2017.pdf
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Paddock-Plan-2017.pdf
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Doniongton Entries-EL-31032017.pdf
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Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 11:01 am
by colintf
what a great day's racing, and the sun shone 8-)

Re: MG Car Club Racing: Donington Park 9th April

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2017 12:33 pm
by Keith Williams
It was a good day out with some very close and exciting racing :thumbsu:

A great sunny day but chilled down rapidly though when the wind picked up late afternoon.

I did see you in the distance Colin but you were on the opposite side of the track to me.