750MC REAR RANGES ABANDONED MEETING

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The 750 Motor Club has added a completely new fixture at Anglesey this September in an effort to rearrange the majority of the races lost in its March meeting, which was abandoned due to snow.

The Donington Park season-opening meeting scheduled for march 17/18 was abandoned shortly after lunch on the opening day in sporadic blizzard-like conditions, and with weather forecasts suggesting more on the way. No races had been completed.

The club has been able to replace many of these lost rounds by slotting them into three meetings scheduled for September. Hot Hatch and Bikesports races have been added to the alreadyexisting 750MC Donington National Circuit meeting on september 1/2, RGB Sports 1000 and Club Enduro – including a three-hour Enduro race – will run in an entirely new meeting at Anglesey on september 8, while extra MR2 races will be added to the Grand Finals Race Day event at Castle Combe on september 15.

This was done even though the 750MC was not obliged to replace the lost running as qualifying sessions had been completed during the original, abandoned meeting.

“We’re trying our best to rearrange as many of the races as possible, but it’s obviously quite a challenge as finding circuits with track time available at such late notice is quite difficult,” 750MC competitions secretary Giles Groombridge said.

“And with championship races we need the consent of all the registered drivers in order to make the required change to the calendar, which isn’t always possible. All in all it’s been a difficult situation but we’ve done quite well in managing the fallout from it.”

Competitors from the abandoned meeting will not be charged extra for the rearranged running of their rounds.

“Drivers in races which we’ve not been able to reschedule have received credit which they can use with us in future races,” Groombridge added.

Reigning MR2 champion Shaun Traynor was delighted with the move.

“They didn’t have to [do it],” he said, “it’s part and parcel of the terms and regs that we signed up to that we’ve done qualifying so that means our money’s gone. So for them to give us a chance to rearrange it [was] really good of them. I know they [750MC] lost a lot of money at Donington, especially with rearranging this.”