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.

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In the MG Cup’s Snetterton contest we at last got what we had been keenly anticipating all season: a straight fight out front between the evenly matched Metros of Mike Williams and reigning Metro Cup champion Jack Ashton.

We had to wait another race to get this though as Ashton missed the first counter thanks to an oil seal coming off. Williams won that race but it was far from simple as his newly fitted rear wheels had not been torqued fully. He went as quickly as he dared to beat the returning Peter Burchill’s ZS 180 (pictured above) by just 0.333 seconds.

Dennis Robinson was third home in his MG ZR 170, taking the place and the Class B victory after champion Richard Buckley slid his 170 off at Oggies late on. Robinson also got Driver of the Race while his son Carl took Class A victory in his ZR 160.

The Williams vs Ashton battle was fully joined in race two, and it was worth the wait. Williams led from the line but Ashton was quickly by and established some breathing space over Williams. But Ashton was using a new tyre compound and found his initial grip fell away meaning Williams closed and overtook. But shortly afterwards Williams had a massive moment – wherein Ashton noted Williams “almost killed himself…I think he was opposite lock three different times!” – that let Ashton back past. Williams reclaimed the lead at Riches late on and crossed the line first, but got a five-second track-limits penalty that handed Ashton the win.

It didn’t affect either driver’s relish of the battle though. “A fantastic race,” Williams beamed. “The back end was all over the shop, I had trouble trying to keep it on the road, that was the cause of the time penalty. But it doesn’t really matter because the race we had it was just absolutely immense.

“Nothing happened for me in the first race. I went round as slow as I possibly could to keep the lead. That [race two] has more than made up for it. It goes to show the racing we’re having, you win one race and you can’t even compare it to the race you’ve just come second in. That’s how it is – you come for the fun!”

Ashton concurred: “Epic race, loved it,” he said. “Got some nice grip for about five laps then all of a sudden it went to really bad jelly tyres. That’s when Mike started to reel me in quite quickly. He’d gone off a couple of times after he got the black-and-white flag, then I saw them holding the board out and I knew exactly what it was. I’d probably try to battle with him [without the penalty], but I wasn’t going to stop him, he was on fire, he was pushing that thing like you wouldn’t believe.”

Buckley this time got Class B win in fourth, just ahead of Carl Robinson who took the Class A win and got a Driver of the Race award of his own. Dennis Robinson this time suffered from lost revs with a suspected VVC Unit problem.

The countdown begins for rounds 3 and 4 of the MG Cup at Snetterton on the 6th September…….

MGCC MG Cup supported by Peter Best Insurance – All change for MG Cups long-awaited Donington 2020 season-opener

MG Car Club’s 2020 racing season at last got underway with a packed meeting at a sunny and warm Donington Park. The meeting with Covid safety measures in place so paddock life was a little changed with out spectators.

MG Metro Cup champion Jack Ashton was yet another in upgraded equipment. He has replaced his 1.4-litre Metro engine with a 1.8-litre version for a move to MG Cup. And at Donington he immediately joined similarly equipped Mike Williams in fighting for victory.

Williams won the first race, while the pursuing Ashton retired with a broken gearbox. Reigning champion Richard Buckley, now in Class B with a ZR 170, rose to finish second overall ahead of Stuart Tranter’s Tomcat and got take the class win with it. Carl Robinson beat Dale Reet to Class A victory and was awarded Driver of the Race.

For race two Ashton installed a new gearbox with a diff in it, and found the car much improved. On lap one though while dicing for the lead with Williams in the Craners with his unfamiliar ‘box he selected second gear instead of fourth, locked his wheels and ran through the Old Hairpin gravel. “I over-revved it to God-knows-what rpm,” Ashton recalled. “Thought it was game over there and then but it still managed to keep on going.”

He quickly recovered to second, and before we could find out if he could haul Williams in, Williams pulled into the pits with a seized wheel bearing. “It just made the car undriveable,” Williams said, “it got to the point that it’s dangerous. It was a big lead, if the car was running fine I would have driven comfortably and maintained a distance [to Ashton].”

It left Ashton well clear, yet there was late drama as his Metro started to smoke, possibly related to the earlier over-rev, but he just held on to beat Tranter by a scant 0.6s.

“I tried to just limp it home, which I just about did!,” Ashton added. “It’s leaking oil internally, I think a cracked piston or something not good. But we finished!

“It’s testing the water with the new engine combo,” Ashton said of his weekend, “after putting a new diff in it after race one it felt really good, I could get on the power a lot better. Now it’s really singing. We hopefully can give Mike a good run for his money next time out.”

Williams concluded: “Good race win to start off with, it was great race. [Race two] I was in control – that kind of thing happens doesn’t it?”

Kayleigh Twigger completed the podium, competing in her dad Chris’s for-sale Tomcat in tribute to him as he is now unable to race due to motor neurone disease, and the tribute included running a ‘DAD 1’ number plate instead of the usual ‘TWIG 1’. Kayleigh also got Driver of the Race.

“First race it was fourth overall but I lost it as the driveshaft caputted, so I had a point to prove in this one [race two],” she said.

Dennis Robinson in his 170 won the Class B contest ahead of Buckley, who had a brief off at the Craners, while Carl Robinson again beat Reet to Class A honours.

Championship Points as follows

Thanks to our sponsor Peter Best Insurance Services for supporting the live streaming of all our race action with our media partner MySuperCar Productions. Just jump on our Facebook page to see all coverage from Donington Park, qualifying, Race 1 and 2 Driver interviews and paddock walk.

https://www.facebook.com/TheMGCup/

Thanks to Ian, Leon and Alain, and don’t worry Ian there will be bacon butties at Snetterton……