MG Car Club of South Australia
Peter Hall Memorial Six Hour Regularity – Sunday 7 May
unday 7 May was a fine and clear
S day for some good fun motorsport at the Peter Hall Memorial Six Hour Regularity. This event was a pet project of Peter Hall and it is great to see it run again with a full field of twenty six teams. The event is well run by the MSCA and teams regularly come from Victoria and Deniliquin to compete. Team Emgee this year consisted of Rob Hall as Team Manager, Drivers John Davies( Toyota 86), Dean Hosking( Toyota 86), Jason Edwards( Lotus Elise), Murray Stephenson( Honda Civic) and Chris Hunt( Clubman). Again, not one MG to be seen. Chris has been a regular competitor with MGCC in the past and it was great to see him back after an absence. His Clubman was a recent purchase and much of his practice time was learning how it worked. Sadly, not one MG in the team! Our expert support crew consisted of Faye Edwards, Rob Hall, Dick & Jamie Manning, Michael Bugg, Curley, Leigh Harris and Tim Edmonds who was working as a scrutineer and supporter. A grid of twenty six teams entered with a number of Victorian teams and included a variety of cars from old sports cars, clubmans, sedans, some registered and some race cars. For many teams this is the only time we see their cars so it is entertaining getting used to the drivers and vehicles. As with 2016 a swarm of Hyundai Excels turned up and Scott Stephenson, an MGCC member, had put together a team including his Bathurst conquering Excel, Helen Stephenson’ s, a Honda Integra, a Barina and an HQ Holden. They finished ninth due to some mechanical issues. The objective of the Regularity event is for a team of up to six cars and drivers to carry a sash for six hours and score as many laps as they can within certain timing guidelines. Based on the drivers’ nominated times a target number of laps is calculated by the organizers. The final result is measured against that target. We all had some practice time, although I only had one lap to check the track still went clockwise, and final times were nominated by 10:15am. As usual, practice was frantic but a good opportunity to bed in some brakes and practise sash changes and for Chris to get used to his new car. Moving approx 150 cars on and off the track in an hour is quite an effort. Each driver must complete more than 10 % of the target laps and no driver may do more than 30 % of the target so, given our target was approx 250 laps, was to send each car out for at least 25 laps on the first stint to complete the 10 % and then do a second stint later. Jason started for the team and once he got clear track set about banking regular bonus laps. Having one of the quickest cars on track and nominating below his capacity traffic did not cause too much grief when he got amongst it. Twenty six cars around Mallala is heavier traffic than we normally see at a super sprint. The team ran in order through John, Chris, Dean and Murray with each initially intended to do approx 25 laps but it was hard to call in a driver who was run-
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