MGCC MG Cup supported by Peter Best Insurance

The Rover Metros of Jack Ashton and Mike Williams continued their battle for honours in the MG Cup, with Ashton claiming both wins.

Ashton had qualified on pole for the opener and led the race throughout. Williams was never far behind, but rued his misestimate of the impact that a safety-car start would have on the number of laps. Not wanting to show his hand too soon, Williams fired in the fastest lap on what turned out to be the final tour, but ran out of laps to challenge further, falling less than a second short.

Third place went to Class B winner Darren Harris in his ZR 170, just edging Kayleigh Twigger’s Class C Rover 220 Tomcat Turbo, and earning himself Driver of the Race honours in the process. Dennis Robinson was second in Class B despite a 10-second penalty for overtaking under the safety-car release, having started from the pitlane after being late out of the assembly area. The same fate befell son Carl in his Class A ZR 160 although he still did enough to win the class.

Twigger’s second fastest qualifying time gave her a maiden pole position for race two, and she led until standing water caused her engine to splutter. She slipped back to fifth before losing control on the final lap, and sadly collecting Stuart Tranter’s similar Tomcat in the incident.

Ashton benefited from Twigger’s misfortune, and survived a trip down the escape road at Hislop’s, to repeat his earlier success over Williams.

“I couldn’t see anything behind Kayleigh, so I take my hat off to Mike driving behind me at the speed he was,” said Ashton. “The wipers were flat out and it was just not clearing the screen quick enough.”

“It was mega fun [but] it was hard!” he added, reckoning the conditions were worse than in the first encounter despite managing to set a faster lap. “I pulled the wick a little bit mid-way through the race. I saw Mike was fairly close to me so I thought, ‘Let’s just go for it!’”

Harris again took Class B honours in third, ahead of Peter Burchill (ZS 180) and Class A winner Carl Robinson, whose success was enough to clinch the overall championship title. Second in Class B meant Dennis Robinson scooped the class title, while Williams took Class C championship honours.

Eighth overall and second in Class A earned Morgan Short (Rover 216 GTi) the Driver of the Race, having coped admirably well in the treacherous conditions despite his limited experience.

We would like to thank all the marshals volunteers and officials for allowing us to race this season and our sponsor Peter Best Insurance Services, together with our media partner MySuperCar. Plans now start for 2021 season #fillthegrid2021

Photo Credit Dickon Siddall Race Report by MGCC.

Live streaming is a big part of how we gain exposure for our drivers and our championship, we would like to pass our thanks to the team Ian, Leon and Alain.

We can announce that we will working with the team again in 2021 #fillthgrid2021

The MG Cup Supported by Peter Best Insurance Services 2020 results 

Overall Champion Carl Robinson

2^nd Place Dennis Robinson

3^rd Place Mike Williams

Class Results                    

A            1^st Carl Robinson – 2^nd Morgan Short – 3^rd Jon Gill

B             1^st Dennis Robinson – 2^nd Wayne Sterling-Parker – 3^rd Rod Weston-Bartholomew

C             1^st Mike Williams – 2^nd Jack Ashton – 3^rd Peter Burchill

Thank you to all our drivers, helpers, marshals, and organisers that have enabled us to race in 2020 season in somewhat difficult times.

If you race a MG or a Rover, you will not find a better race series to run your car in drop us a line.

Contact Peter Burchill #fillthegrid2021

After 6 races in the 2020 season we are pleased to confirm that Carl Robinson is the 2020 MG Cup Supported by Peter Best Insurance Services Champion.

The MG Cup offers great close racing with cars in Road, Modified and Race Classes catering for MG and Rover cars. http://www.mgcup.com

Rounds 5 & 6 of the MG Cup Oulton Park on 3rd October
2020 has meant a short season with 6 races at 3 venues with all scores counting, due to Covid restrictions not all of our drivers have been able to race this year and some not in all 6 rounds so the season final will truly be a dash for the chequered flag.

The driver with highest score from 6 races will be crowned the 2020 MG Cup Supported by Peter Best Insurance Services Champion.

Could it be father son combination taking 1st and 2nd overall in MG Cup for 2020?  Richard Buckley may be putting a late entry in to fight for class honor’s.

In class A Carl is leading with novice Morgan running 2nd with Dale and Arron fighting for 3rd

In class B Dennis leads with Richard in close 2nd with Wayne and Rod are battling for 3rd place 

In class C Mike leads with a potential 3 way battle for 2nd and 3rd for Jack Stuart and Kayleigh

The MG Cup would like to thank all the marshals / Officials / Volunteers during these difficult times this season and enabling to come racing.

To all our drivers their helpers and friends stay safe and for those that cant be at event we will be live streaming on facebook.

The MG Cup would like to than Peter Best Insurance Services for ongoing support this season.

Thanks to our Sponsor Peter Best Insurance Services we are able to offer 50% discount for 2020 drivers in the MG Cup when they register for 2021 season. 2020 has been a tough year for all and the MG Cup appreciates support from the team at Peter Best Insurance Services

Plans are coming together for 2021 season with the MG Cup running 12 races over 6 weekends details will be confirmed at AGM at the end of October and we look forward finalising plans for the 2021.

See you all at Oulton Park on the 3rd October for the final rounds of the MG Cup #fillthegrid

The MG Cup offers a warm welcome to Mark Wright who will give his new MG LE500 its maiden run at Oulton Park in class C. The LE500 was the last production mid engine MG fitted with a 190bhp engine.

With 2 weeks to go we are seeing more drivers coming out for the end of season, again we would like to thank officials, organisers, volunteers and the Orange Army for making this happen in difficult times.

Plans are in place for 2021 and we look forward to a full seasons offering close competitive racing in the MG Cup the home of MG and Rover race cars. #fillthegrid

Ray Ferguson will be joining us for the last two rounds of the MG Cup at Oulton Park, it will great to Ray back out in the MGCC once again.

2020 has been a difficult season motorsport and again the MG Cup would like to thank all marshals/ vounteers/officials that allow us to go racing.

We hope UK motorsport can bounce back to a cracking season in 2021 and we are planning now to make sure that can happen COVID permitting. #fillthegrid

The MG Cup would like to welcome back Darren Harris in his MGZR170, the 2018 Champion will be racing at Oulton Park in his MGZR170 for the season finale of the MG Cup.

We look forward to good grids at Oulton Park on the 3rd of October, the end of what has been a difficult season in 2020.