Latest News from the 2008 Championship
Silverstone Marks the end of the Season
The final race of the season took place on the 5th of October, with Lee Sullivan walking away with the 2008 Champions cup for both class B and overall champion trophies.
The final two championship rounds saw a combined grid of all classes, which by all accounts proved very popular and made for exciting racing. It was especially interesting to see how the old classes mixed with the new and how the ZRs faired against the MGFs.
All in all 2008 was an exciting year despite the obvious impacts of financial contraints. I have no doubt though that 2009 will be an excellent year.
Lee Sullivan Secures the 2008 Championship at Cadwell
Lee Sullivan secured the Class B and overall MGOC Championship on 251 points ahead of Class F winner Stuart Plotnek on 229 points and Will Sharpe in Class A on 222 points.
With just one race remaining at Silverstone second and third places are still as yet undecided with two excellent drivers Plotnek and Sharpe left to fight it out. However, if Will fails to finish then the charging Gary Smith and former MGOC Champion could take overall third place.
All our congratulations go to Lee who fought a hard season and as one of the true gents on the race track is a well deserved champion.
MGOC Championship puts on a show at Thruxton
With a full grid at Thruxton at the weekend the MGOC put on a tremendous show with some superb racing to a large crowd. The attraction of the Thruxton circuit brought out some of the drivers who were unable to race earlier in the year but were still able to put in some competitive racing.
Car number 10 in class A has also provided a superb in car video of the battle at the front of class A to find out more and view the video go to the General Race chat forum on the race drivers bulletin board, it is one of the most stunning peices of in car video and driving you will ever see and a testiment to the skill of Jim Baynam and Will Sharpe in Class A, superb!!
Its not all hard work for the drivers in the championship
Race cars show off new sunstrips
To help promote the championship race participants have begun featuring new sun strips to help promote the championship. Race strips are available for your road going cars too, all you need to do is send a message via the bulletin board to Stratton Mackay or Trevor Dixon.
Oulton Park Lap Records tumble
In true Oulton park excitment many drivers acheived new lap records.
With wins from Will Sharpe, Lee Sullivn, Stuart Plotnek and Gary Smith, with Jim Baynam setting a new lap record originally set by Gary Smith in 2005. Martin Wills in his MGF broke his own lap record before retiring on lap 3 and the ever charging Stratton experienced more dilemmas and was able to only complete seven laps.
Join the championship as it gets even more exciting with some close racing at Mallory Park on the 20th July.
Brands Hatch dramas!
It seems that Brands Hatch continues to provide some superb racing moments from Stratton MacKay suffering from fire and his father demonstrating some superb car control.
Some good news though as Mark Halshall in class B gets his first podium of his career. More details on the race in th race report section.
Sharpe Plotnek, MacKay and Byrne Head up the points tables after Pembrey
You couldnt have asked for better racing. The MGOC Championship re-establishes its reputation by producing some of the most exciting racing of the 2008 UK club racing calendar and already battle lines are being drawn with some stunning performances from the top drivers.
In particular the new class A driver Will Sharpe who transfered from Class B after a mixed season and has controlled Class A from the start even with last years overall champion Jim Baynam close behind. Class B's ever determined MacKay is finally getting results after a torrid last two seasons and is now leading the championship by three clear points ahead of Stuart Plotnek in class F.
Trophy Holders after Pembrey's all action weekend.
Go to the race reports section to read about the double header at Pembrey and catch up with the pictures in the photo gallery.
2008 Championship Gets underway at Silverstone
The 2008 Championship finally got off to a cold and not without incident start at Silverstone. A somewhat reduce grid in all classes saw the usual action from class B&Z and some typical close action from class F drivers Plotnek, Evans, Naish, Deaves and Savage.
In class B fastest lap and a deserved win went to Stratton MacKay who for a numbers of years has been plagued by the Silverstone gremlins. Class Z success when to Gary Smith with a near five second lead over Simon Byrne.
MacKay finally leaves his gremlins at home with a deserved Class B win.
Class A saw the usual dominence of Jim Baynam forced into second in qualifying by William Sharpe who made his debut in Class A having swapped over from Class B and went on to win leaving Jim in second but only by a margin of 0.8 of a second. Class F had the familiar trio of Plotnek, Evans and Deaves lining up in positions 1, 2 and 3 for the start. Evans failed to make the race leaving Deaves, Naish and Plotnek to fight it out. Deaves crossed the line first having built up a ten second over the quick Paul Naish and Plotnek resigned to picking up third place.
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Test Day at Mallory Park
On the 18th March is the MG organised test day at Mallory Park. There are still places available, to book download your booking form here.
Lap Records
MG drivers are renowned for continuously breaking lap records, to find out who holds which record for which track click the link below to download the full report.