A number of you have been availing yourselves of the opportunity provided by electronic means to express your opinions about the relative performance of various cars and classes in the championship.

Please confine yourselves to reasoned commentary, make your class representative aware of your concerns.

The technical officer and the class reps are monitoring the regulations and their effect on racing.

A far larger audience is watching the electronic exchanges.

I hope it will not be necessary say anything further.

David Brooke
Coordinator

Ollie

In response to your comments directed to me.

I am simply abiding by the rules. I go out to qualify on pole and try to win every race in every championship I have ever raced in. As I have said before with the amount of prep and cost involved to get the car to a meeting I would be mad not to go as fast as I can. As you are aware there is a data logger fitted on the car, which would disprove your argument. I have always been totally open and honest in the racing scene and always will be.

I run my own very busy engineering business, and I have a wife and two children to look after before I can ever consider motor racing. Unfortunately I am not able to secure a broadband connection in my area, and generally I have no interest in getting involved in online squabbles – hence I make little comment but no one does anything on my behalf, I like to run my own life.

With respect to pit boards – this is part of basic racecraft.

I am sorry you can’t make sense of the fact that I am overtaking you in a car well over 200kg more than yours. I am not bringing into question your driving ability in any way but if you read ‘Drive to Win’ by Caroll Smith, may be you would understand more about what’s going on.

With reference to your ‘gentleman’s agreement’ which was never discussed with me, I did receive a text about this from yourself shortly before a race meeting saying “the group C lot have decided to run on road tyres, just checking that this is OK with you” so when did competitors start dictating the rules? I know from conversations we have had that you struggle to get slicks to work on your car; however you have been running them all year. This takes me back to my original point on my first post; Are all the other cars in class C at the pinnacle of their performance? I believe a properly set up MGB will be quicker on slicks.

I am quite happy to make my car available to the championship scrutineer if it stops all this suspicion over my car.

I find it hard to believe that according to you this is ‘nothing personal’. However your comments are sent directly to me which makes it personal.

That will be my last ever word on the subject. That’s another hour out of my working day. However, I would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all the people support me.

these are all in the production casing as supplied with the car.

You are correct ZR’s are coming and under the MGCC rules all championships have some interchangability to allow club racers to race as numbers are down through out UK motorsport.

Racing is a expensive hobby and not everybody can afford a classic, so a modern MG is a cost effective option. My cars a good example road engine 270 cams and I am now beating class C V8’s who have probually spent more on engines than my car cost to build. Alex also showed in his ZS how it can be done by beating me and a V8.

So are you going to ban the ZS next? (3 currently racing in PBIC and another being built for 2012) My car is the heaviest in the series at 1220 kilos with driver, so are you going to make me run heavier than the production road version as I beat a V8?

I did not see a extra 100 kilos in Ollies or Blaines car, So what have team Neaves honoured? Ollie again was within a second of Dan. Blaine drove through the pack from last to the front his best performance todate (maybe the sandbag tittle should be moved on)

Clearly the V8’s need to go faster or all of the VHPD cars need to be pegged back. But at present there is only one car that has done this.

I really enjoyed Thruxton and to be able to beat a V8 and chase another down which for me is a rare thing.

I am a massive MG fan and fan of the MGCC but petty squables about one car being a second quicker than others is spoiling the series. For those of you that have not raced with the sereis for long just look back Dan has raced at the front in his metro and that was never a issue but now its a ZR it is? Madness.