Hi Guys,
The MG Classic race meeting at Manfield (14/11/09) was once again superb. There was some pre meeting email traffic about the unfair treatment of Historic’s at this event but on the day all was sorted and once again the Historic’s were given 5 races and practice. The last race on Sunday was mid program so we could all be gone by 4pm. WHAT MORE COULD YOU ASK FOR. So if you are one of those Historic racer’s that thinks’ MG car club treat us bad. GET OVER IT come and give it a go, it’s a fantastic meeting well organized and we ARE being looked after. The weather was horrible, cold and windy but no rain. A good turnout of 29 historic race cars including 8 sports cars with Richard Wright, (Beowolf) Roger Greaney, (Buckler) Alan Hydman (H & C Triford) Bill Roughan (Mogal) Bill Stone (Mallock) John Mines (JRM Mallock) Brian Service (Mallock) and myself all lining up for the practice.
Once again Richard’s practice was marred by mechanical problems which were very frustrating for him as he had a great test day on Friday. Richard retired with a suspected broken cam follower in his brand new engine which made him as grumpy as I have ever seen him.
The racing was incident free though, with good close racing amongst the sports cars. John Mines with the JRM, sporting brand new Toyo road tires to make it Historic legal, was the exception though. The new tires also gave it the ground clearance of a small truck but that didn’t worry John, who said it would handle like a pig but he was on the front grid row most times. When one race was over he could be seen jumping straight into the JRM2 to compete in the Sports Car Class. The rest of us competed with great vigor swapping places blocking and generally harassing each other for two days. Roger Greaney dropped a crank pulley which ended his weekend and Alan Hayman broke a rear axle but still the fun continued with the sports car field all within a half second of each other all weekend. Bill Stone turned out to be the big mover of the weekend and with a constant round of fine tuning by the last race was totally on top of the entire sports car field except for John Mines. Bill defiantly has his eye on the trophy this year.
Well that’s about it HRSCC Taupo is next on the 6th December get your entries in now!!!
See you all there.
Alan Service
Sports Car Co-ordinator. McRae U2. Albo@woosh.co.nz
Alan Service #26 McRae U2, Brian Service #127 Mallock U2 Mk 8, Colin Grant #39 Beattie, Bill Roughan Mogal Sports in the pits.
Alan and Brian Service discussing the merits of double sink plugs with Tinky Winky and Dippsy (out of view) Alan is our esteemed Sports Car Co-ordinator and HRSCC Committee member
Historic Racer, Bill Stone Mallock U2 Mk6b, with race engineer John Steenson. Bill Roughan #333 in the Mogal Sport. Dummy grid at Manfeild.
Roger Greaney, Rootes group powered Buckler DD2. Steve Beale photo
Bill Stone, Mallock U2 Mk6b. Steve Beale photo
