MGCC SC NEWS Issue 2 N&S

The newsletter of the MG Car Club Speed Championship

11th March 2000

Welcome, welcome one and all

A cordial greeting to old and new competitors in the MG Car Club Speed Championship. This is the first newsletter of the 2000 season going out to only those registered for this year, and as such it takes the place of the usual acknowledgement letter. Unfortunately my time will be at a premium in 2000 so I’m having to cut a few corners. As was the case last year, Sue is the woman in charge, but I will continue to write the newsletters, simply because she has even less time than I do, and anyway, I quite enjoy my little forays into purple prose.

Enclosed is your registration card and a full listing of this year’s registered competitors, and as you can see we’re already ¾ of the way to last year’s turnout. In the fullness of time this will appear as a full sorted class results sheet, when my man Thomas has finished with the formulae that allow the automatic calculations to be made, but in the meantime you should be able to figure out who’s in your class in which series. Hope this OK is in the short term.

Also enclosed is the promised listing of records, bogey and target times. The bogeys have changed a little this year, in that the groups of classes all inherit the same bogey, with the notable exception of group 1, which is a little different in that it contains a much wider spread of performance. This change makes it easier to keep the numbers updated as it allows standard formulae to be inserted.

This sheet also shows which group the various classes fall in, to ensure you all enter the correct event classes. I have asked non-MG event organisers to use these groups as it works out fairer, and saves me having to explain why a 145BHP Standard MGF VVC can’t enter the same class as an 80BHP Standard MGB GT, so isn’t really Standard.

The other item promised at the driver’s meetings last year was an indication of where amalgamations would be made if class numbers didn’t make it to the specified minima. In general these will be within the class groups, against the criteria of up to larger engines or more modern technology, or up to a group of higher modification. So the most likely ones are as follows:

Standard MGA to Standard MGB

Standard Metro to Standard Midget (or vice versa)

Standard MGB GT V8 to Road-going Modified MGA,B & C (which will be run as a single class with only one record/bogey/target)

Standard Metro turbo to Cockshoot class A or MGF 1.8i

Standard MMM to Standard T-Type

Goodness only knows what we will do with the lone Modified MMM or Racing Special.

Most other classes have passed the magic 3 to make a small class, or 5 for full class status.

As last year, amalgamated classes keep their own records/bogeys/targets for calculating additional points scored, but run together for the purposes of class position points.

You will also notice that this year we have split the MGFs, and placed the VVcs in the higher grouping where they belong.

Well that’s it for now, see you soon at the season’s first events.

Jim