June 2018
Nick Micklem
Dean Hosking
John Davies
The MG car club this year fielded a
Team of 5 cars and yes it did include an
MG, Nick Micklem's MG ZR. Other
teams' members were Jason Edwards in
his Lotus Exige, Chris Hunt in his club-
man and Dean Hosking and John Da-
vies in their Toyota 86's. Well I borrowed
mine from my wife (can I please borrow
your car for a quiet Sunday Drive in the
country I asked)
For this event you not only need drivers
but also a support crew and we had a
great team in Faye Edwards and Mi-
chael Bugg doing the timing, Dick Man-
ning, Jamie, Alan Cardnell, Tony
Freckelton and Rob Hall doing pit wall
and sash changeover as well as Chris
Bray and Bev assisting Sue with the
event timing ( a couple of extra Bonus
laps would have been nice Bev)
deciding on the times to nominate for
the day. The objective for each driver is
to nominate a lap time and circulate to
within 1 second of that time without go-
ing under (Breakout). If achieved this
will accrue a Bonus Lap.
With a field of 25 teams it would mean
plenty of traffic to contend with and as
we were starting from row 3 on the grid
we elected to start Jason as he has one
of the quickest cars in the field. This
strategy worked well and Jason was
soon in the groove and putting down
regular Bonus laps. With a five car team
we had elected to run each car for 2
stints of 30-40 minutes. Jason pitting to
hand over to Chris after 25 Laps. Chris
was also soon putting in regular Bonus
Laps for his first stint until being brought
in when a Safety Car was brought out.
Nick was our 3rd car out and although
competing in his first 6Hr he was soon
lapping well with regular bonus laps.
Dean followed then John to complete
our first stint for each driver.
Jason then did his 2nd stint before
handing over to Chris who had to be at
the airport by late afternoon to fly back
to NSW (Oh, the tough life of the fly in
race car driver) then Nick, Dean and
John completed their 2nd stints and the
flag fell at 5pm after a very long day. For
this years event we did not experience
any car issues and finished with all cars
still running and with all drivers lapping
well and getting regular Bonus laps.
So how did we think we would finish. In
the tradition of this event a team dinner
is held on Track to include the results
and presentations.
Team MG finished a very good 4th with
an overall percentage of 53.7083% just
0.057% behind the 3rd placed team.
This was less than a 1/10th of a lap be-
Practice commenced at 9am and we all hind and also only a small margin be-
had at least 4 laps of practice before hind 2nd place.
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