MG Car Club of South Australia
From..Bev Waters
Congrats to Steve Bowra who had an
Sept 29 Round 4 of the Marque
improvement of 10 seconds from his last
Sports Car Assoc. Super Sprint
Sprint, upgrading from the Mercedes
Series, held at Mallala
C200 to a C32 Supercharged V6 mak-
n near perfect conditions, there were
ing a big difference.
77 starters for the Super Sprint of
which there were 11 entries from the Nick Micklem in the MGZR160 is a regu-
MG Car Club. Sprint entries were down lar at events since completing the Driver
due to the clashing of other events in- Training Course a few years ago, and is
cluding the Bay to Birdwood Run, but getting some very good lap times. Tim
with 18 participants from the Driver Edmonds on his second lap and within
Training & Come n Try Entrants, in- range of Nick ran out of brakes at the
end of the straight at the Northern Hair-
creased the numbers.
pin and went into the gravel pit at 100km
Volunteers Berry Treffers was the Offi-
an hour. (Spectacular viewing from the
cial Starter, Faye Edwards and I helped Timing Tower as we held our breath),
out in the timing tower and Murray &
but pleased to see him reversing out
Karen Stephenson were involved with
once the dust settled. Tim said later that
the Driver Training and ‘Come n Try’
wall was coming up very quickly, but
component. We also had several mem-
thankfully the gravel did what it is de-
bers attend as pit crew or spectators
signed to do and bought him to a halt.
including Jamie Manning, Michael Bugg, He was not able to finish the event and
Aiden & Michelle Edwards, and our jun-
he managed to get home safely.
ior member Tyler Edwards who had his
first taste of the track during the lunch Another close competition was between
Craig Steel at his second Super sprint
time parade laps in the Lotus.
taking off 3 seconds from the last event.
Murray was also one of the driving in- Martin Ball in his Rover and Alan Card-
structors, and he still managed to com-
nell in his MGB with only a few seconds
pete in the 4 sessions of the Super
separating them all.
Sprint, so he got to see the track a lot
It was great to see the comradery be-
on this day from varying positions.
tween the members, and their close
Fastest MG Member was Jason Ed- times may have contributed to many
wards driving his Lotus Elise with a
gaining their personal best times at Mal-
1:19.02 and 8 th fastest on the track.
lala.
There was some exciting competition
going on between some of our mem- Thank you to all who have taken part
this year, especially the volunteer offi-
bers:-
Dick Manning MGF1:27.94, Murray cials, marshals and time keepers,
(only.03 second behind Dick), Scott (without you the events cannot run), to
the competitors, their support crew and
(less than a second behind Murray),
spectators.
and Steve was hot on Scott’s tail (.51 of
a second difference).
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