MG Car Club of South Australia
Motorsport – The motorsport calendar for 2017 comprised of 18 events which were used to calculate the“ Club Competition Champion.“ This year the eligible events included 5 motorkhanas, 4 multi club hill climbs at Collingrove and 5 MSCA super sprints at Mallala. Plus 2 competition events at each of the National Meeting and The MG Challenge.
The MG Challenge – The Victorian MG Car Club were hosts for the 2017 challenge, 10 competitors and 4 support crew travelled over to Victoria to compete against 32 from Melbourne, 9 from Geelong and 1 from Sydney. A super sprint was held at Sandown, where club member Peter Mathwin in his MG B Gt V8, was fastest MG on the day. The hill climb was held at Rob Roy. The presentation dinner was held in the MGCC clubrooms with our club declared winner of the 2017 challenge.
In addition to the above other motor sport events entered by club members included outings at Sandown Park, Winton, Philip Island, legend of The Lakes Hill Climb, the South Australian Hill Climb Championships, the South Australian Motorkhana Championships, the Victoria Park sprint at The Adelaide Motor Sport Festival, and Vintage Collingrove Hillclimb.
Annual Kimber Birthday Run – The Kimber Run for 2017, the twenty second run to date, was held in October with a total of 125 cars forming up for the start at Edwards Reserve on Anzac Highway for the run to The Birdwood National Motor Museum via Lyndoch. Thanks to Berry Treffers and his team of helpers for another successful Kimber Run.. A special thank you also to the RAA crew & vans that were on hand for any breakdowns.
National Meeting – Our club hosted the 2017 National Meeting with 340 entrants including Peter Cook, the MG Car Club overseas director, and two visitors each from Japan and Italy, registering for the event. The noggin & natter and rocker cover racing night kicked off the proceedings on Friday evening with our own member Heather Bennett declared the winner.
The events continued over the weekend, with the concours at Wigley reserve, the motorkanna at dock one Port Adelaide, the super sprint at Mallala, plus an observation run, a social run and the Kimber run. The presentation dinner was held on Monday evening and the event wrapped up with a farewell breakfast on Tuesday morning.
National meetings do not happen without a lot of planning and input, volunteers are a vital element of any event and we thank the organising committee and all the volunteers for ensuring that this was a most successful National Meeting.
Historic Registration – the historic registration committee again provided their voluntary services on the 2 nd and 4 th Saturday of each month, we now have over 660 vehicles on the historic registration system.
Regalia – sales continued to be an important aspect of club requirements, with several new lines of shirts, jackets and caps being introduced to compliment the range of regalia available to members..
The library- new publications were added to our already extensive library this year thanks to or librarian Geraldine Hough.
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