Race Report – Brands Hatch – 25/26 August 2024The Brands Britannia race meeting is one of the highlights of the Classic Sports Car Club’s calendar offering two days of racing and off-track entertainment for all the family. This time out theMG ZRs shared the track with two of the CSCC’s series; for their first race […]
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Race Report – MG Trophy Championship R9 & R10 – Anglesey 2024
Race Report – Anglesey – 20 July 2024 The Trac Môn Anglesey Circuit lies on the west coast of Anglesey, overlooking the Irish Sea and the Snowdonia mountain range beyond. Even in good weather the undulating track offers a thrilling ride made even more so when the fickle weather from the west unleashes a torrential […]
Race Report – MG Trophy Championship R7 & R8 – Silverstone 2024
Race Report – Silverstone – 1 June 2024 Just two weeks after the Thruxton race meeting the MG Trophy was back in action on the Silverstone National circuit. The three long straights allowed the Jaguars that shared the track with the MGs to exploit their power but the nimble ZRs once again had the advantage […]
Race Report – MG Trophy Championship R5 & R6 – Thruxton 2024
Race Report – Thruxton, 18 May 2024 “A lot of bang for your buck’, said one of the commentators who compared this season’s ZR and Jaguar battles to the titanic Mini and Ford Falcon duels of the 1960s. The speed and agility of the MGs clearly impressed again and demonstrated that the Class B cars […]
Race Report – MG Trophy Championship R3 & R4 – Oulton Park 2024
Race Report – Oulton Park, 27 April 2024 Titled the Cheshire Classic Challenge, the CSCC race meeting on 27th April provided a packed programme of first class racing. The MGs once again shared the track with their distant British Leyland relatives running in the Berkshire Jag Components Jaguar Challenge. The thundering Jags had the upper […]
Race Report – MG Trophy Season Opener R1 & R2 – Donington 2024
A New Era for the MG Trophy Championship 2024 sees the beginning of a new era for the MG Trophy. The MG Car Club’s decision to cease organising race meetings meant that the Trophy, along with the Midget & Sprites Challenge, the MG Cup, and BCV8s needed to find new homes. The Trophy has been […]
Race Report – Snetterton – 23rd/24th September
The Holden MG Trophy The MG Trophy races at Snetterton, sponsored by Holden MG, featured a high-quality five-way battle at the front. Adam Jackson and Fred Burgess returned to the MG ZR 190 Class A contest to join habitual frontrunners Graham Ross and Doug Cole plus Cadwell Park’s in-form man, Sam Meagher. At the start […]
Race Report – Cadwell Park – 30 July 2023
The MG Trophy competitors gathered at the scenic Cadwell Park circuit for rounds 7 & 8 of the 10 round 2023 championship and had a great day of close and competitive racing in fine weather. The Lincolnshire venue with its spectacular fast turns and undulations is appropriately nicknamed the ‘Mini Nurburgring’ and the Trophy has […]
Race Report – Silverstone – 10/11 June 2023
The MG Trophy races at MG-Triumph 100 – Silverstone, 10th & 11th June, saw the return of Fred Burgess (ZR190) who, in 2021, was a consistent frontrunner in Class A and finished 3rd overall in the championship. Racing for the first time in 18 months, he immediately demonstrated that his absence from the track had […]
Race Report – Oulton Park – 13 May 2023
Adam Jackson did not compete in MG Trophy’s 2023 Brands Hatch curtain-raiser round, as he was thinking he might “have more of a laid-back year”. But as soon as he was watching the Brands race he was tempted to return for the Oulton Park round, joining the 18-strong line-up there. And Jackson was rewarded in […]