June 2019
MG SV-R RACING DEBUT
Victorian State Circuit Racing Rnd 1
Sandown 2/3/ 2019
T he infamous MG SV-R had a challeng-
The vehicle suffered cooling issues like
most of the field but then also a misfire
and some glitches between ECU and
Dash confusing the situation. The team
are ready to start working on the car
and come back better with some plans
already in place.
The team was satisfied to have at least
hit the track and made progress despite
a DNF in the final race, “we have a bit
of a checklist so we need to start work-
ing our way through that and see where
we end up, we did make a lot of pro-
gress this weekend and know exactly
what we need to do and the priori-
ties and we will be at round 2 and
hopefully there we can challenge for
the podium.
The car attracted a lot of attention
across the weekend with plenty of peo-
ple wanting to check it out and has ush-
ered in a new era for MG Racing and
the V8 fraternity.
Driver Rhys Howell
ing debut that saw problems in every
session as the team effectively did a pub-
lic shakedown of the car. The car has
plenty of potential and the team are
happy to have at least taken pole position
in an otherwise frustrating weekend.
“We didn’t really have expectations but
we certainly wanted to knock on a few
doors of the V8’s, it is a bit of a shame
things didn’t go our way but we will be
back, we will be at round 2 and try again”
commented Rhys Howell. The car faced
challenges the whole weekend, on Friday
a number of minor issues curtailed per-
formance including fuel pump issues and
then later on some voltage issues with
some wire draining voltage. The team
spent a number of hours on Friday night
trying to rectify some of the issues and
make some progress, but it was no little
avail. Compounded by high ambient air This is part of an article by Paul Vernall
temperatures on an untested car was the from the MGCCVIC posted on the Rac-
hardest initiation possible.
ing Register website. Sponsor, The
Hobson Stores ......................... Editor
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