MG Car Club of South Australia
MSCA SUPER SPRINT ROUND 3
MALLALA MOTORSPORT PARK
JULY 28 TH
hed 47 is booked for each MSCA
Sprint meeting offering a meeting
place for our group with tea/coffee &
biscuits provided, and shelter out of the
elements if needed. Smaller mechani-
cal issues are normally resolved with
many hands on deck helping out with
their respective expertise, tools or parts
where they can.
The Marque Sport Car Assoc. Super
Sprints are gaining even more interest
with a capacity field of 101 entries, and
a very good attendance from the MG
Car Club with 12 Competitors, together
with several volunteers for official du-
ties, and spectators.
There was a grid of 15 ‘new comers’ to
MSCA sprinting, and unfortunately the
day did not start well with some of them
deciding to try and practice instead of
attending their driver’s briefing. This
caused a few issues in the timing tower
with several competitors not even hav-
ing their numbers on their car, and con-
sequently the practice had to be can-
celled causing some time delays.
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Time wasn’t in favour of the competi-
tors all day due to the number of inci-
dents, and there was insufficient time
for the last round to be run.
Break downs, a roll over (and pleased
to report no injuries), another catching
fire due to a ‘after-market’ part fitted to
the fuel area, and luckily no major dam-
age done although it looked spectacu-
lar from the sidelines (and the car is
now back on the road), and some
lengthy delays cleaning up oil around
the track distributed by someone who
should have known better (not from our
club) and should have pulled off the
track after experience some major me-
chanical issue,
The weather was reasonable to start
with until light showers arriving mid-
afternoon saw several other people
decide to call it a day with only about
two thirds of the field completing the
event.
Another disappointing day for Laurie
Houghton who after a 12 months break
from competing for personal reasons,
but with some rebuilding of his car, did
not get to finish the first round with fur-
ther mechanical issues – pleased to
report not related
to the recent work
carried out, but
devastating all the
same for Laurie.
With myself now
working in the tim-
ing tower at many
events, I don’t get
to hear much gos-
sip from the driv-
ers and they seem
a little reluctant to
come forward with
any.
Gary
will
be
pleased he is a
conversation point
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