MGCC to run meetings despite setback
The MG Car Club has reaffirmed its commitment to organising and running race meetings next year and beyond, amid a number of new appointments to its board and Equipe Classic Racing moving to organise its own events.
Equipe regularly takes a significant chunk of track time at MGCC fixtures for its popular GTS, Pre-63 and Libre categories, but has decided to operate its own meetings for 2022.
The MGCC is already in talks with a number of guest championships – including those with which it has existing arrangements – to appear alongside its own portfolio of categories next year.
“We wanted to let our members and racing competitors know that we are still planning for 2022,” said MGCC race competitions secretary Mark Baulch. “We’re talking to the circuits and looking at possible dates and what sort of packages they can come up with financially.”
Baulch added that Equipe’s departure is the ideal moment to review the club’s offering, including visiting different venues to the circuits it traditionally races at.
“When a customer of yours says they’re going to do something different, it’s an opportunity to look at things and review,” he said. “We’re looking at all options and considering some different tracks to where we’ve raced in recent years – we’re talking to our championships about which tracks are appealing to them.
“We have a good relationship with a number of guest championships over the years, such as the Morgan Challenge and Mini 7 Racing Club. I think what’s important is both Morgan and Mini are British marques, like MG, but we’ve had Porsche and Ferrari race with us in the past. There’s a lot of people out there that we will be talking to in the coming weeks.”
New directors were appointed to the MGCC’S board back in April, with Dave Tynan taking up the chairman role, after controversy over how an alleged COVID-19 breach at the club office was handled by the previous chairman.