MIDGET STALWART REEVE REMEMBERED
Racers in this Saturday’s Midget & Sprite Challenge Snetterton contest will compete for the Ted
Reeve Memorial Trophy remembering the man who competed in Midgets for almost half a century.
The trophy will be won by the winning Class A car in the first race of the Midgets and Sprites’ double header at MG Car Club’s season finale in Norfolk.
Many of the current grid used to race with Reeve, and his last race with the club was at Snetterton in 2017 before he passed away the following year.
The trophy was awarded at last year’s Midget &
Sprite Challenge Silverstone race one, and was won by Ed Weston. It was particularly poignant as Weston’s father was a long-time mechanic for Reeve, so Weston grew up watching Reeve at close quarters.
Reeve started racing in a Lotus Cortina during 1966, moving to MGs in 1968. In 1969 he purchased Mike Bundy’s Midget, starting a remarkable 48-year run of competing in Midgets. He joined the MGCC Midget Challenge in its inaugural year, competing in every season until 2017, and won the championship in 2004 and 2006.