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• Tarmac circuit is 0.8 mile in length. Rounds Minimum Requirements
Proposed East Midlands Speed Championship 2010 • 10 rounds, 5 best to score Round Date Venue Club Reserve Round – Thorsby – 18th September – Notts Sports car For more information, contact Mike Yates at: It has today been confirmed that subject to MSA approval of the Circuit the MDA plan to hold 7 events at Blyton on the Sprint Circuit with the first kicking off on the 11th April with a Fun/Test Day. 11th April 2010 Fun Day / Test 22nd May 2010 26th June 2010 1st August 2010 5th September 2010 24th October 2010 There will be slightly different points awarded for each so we could
have different championship winners. Lets all join both the MDA & BTRDA CHAMPIONSHIPS in 2010 and help
take Rallycross to a new level.
I was on the Go Motorsport
stand with my car at the 2010 Autosport International Show. The Go Motorsport
stand was specifically for under 17s, everyone on the stand was trying
to promote different types of junior classes in motorsport. My car was
displayed in senior minicross spec as at 16 young drivers can move up
into a variety of motorsport. I was interviewed Martin Brundle, which
was exciting, it was great for him to spend time and show an interest
in junior motorsport.
The Provisonal Dates have been announced for the 2010 Blyton Sprint Series, which will be held at the Blyton circuit on tarmac. The series will be over 5 rounds. 21st March 2010 27th June 2010 1st August 2010 5th September 2010 24th October 2010 This year the championship is to visit new and existing curcuits all within the shore lines of the UK (hence minimising travel costs). The championship will consist of 9 rounds with 7 to count. All race meetings will be single, Sunday events with the exception of 2 Bank Holiday Monday events. A full calendar will be released very shortly, with events being spaced out from March through to October. This will help competitors to budget. Minicross competitors competing in the Edwardes Bros
Rallycross Championship will also be entitled to the following benefits: For more information contact: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ December 13th 2009 - 2009 - Awards Tow Truck Award David Bell George Edwardes Jonothan Edwardes Ian Clark Spirit of Minicross’ Plate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The year is nearly at a close and it has been another race packed year which saw one of the wettest seasons in the last 5 years. Nearly all race meetings had some rain at some point, including the European weekends. However it was Kris Hudson and Brad Bailey who took the honors of 2009. To which it has not been confirmed if they are returning in their respective classes in 2010 to defend their titles. 2010 is getting closure and with the calendar being announced soon memberships are already been taken for 2010. The European Weekend/Week has been booked between 11th and 18 July 2010. Ferry Deals will be on offer and as always race entry is free. Please speak to Mark Griffin with respect to the Ferries. If anyone has any suggestions or comments and would like be involved
in Mini Cross the please feel free to contact anyone from Committee
found on the Contacts Page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hello all, for those minicrossers who attended, then you know what a great day we had at the Miniworld Action day at castle combe it was the first time the MDA have attended the show as a club and it was a bit of an unkown as to how the day would turn out. Things started at 0900 with doors opening and plenty of visitors – nearly all of them in minis, arrived. There were club stands, which we were part of and the main area, with all of the big trade stands with all of those shiny bits that you think you need to buy. Amongst all of this were plenty of “autojumble” bits for sale, crates full of carbs - Any HIF for £15 was the bargain of the day. The main event was the “50 years mini” parade lap at lunchtime with a world record attempt at getting the most minis doing a lap at once. Plenty of minis but not sure about the record?!
Throughout the day, the track saw a strwam of minis only in various states of tune, BEC, Mighty minis and bill richards blue clubman which was about the fastest all day, and of course the MINICROSS cars! Each hour of the day was split into 15min slots and anyone with a mini could pay £35 to race round the circuit for as many times as your car would take it! – with a 4.1 diff the straights were a bit long but I found that the minicross cars were plenty fast enough around the corners. About 20 cars at a time went out which included Sunday drivers – track day minis – and everything in between. The recovery trucks were busy and at least 2 minis were involved in a smash which looked like they were both written off! Neil wade kicked the day off with the first 15 min session in the new mini on avons, which he clearly enjoyed, the New mini looked well suited to the tarmac making circuit racing it an additional bonus for anyone taking the new mini route in the future.
David bell took his hire drive mini out (about 8 times!!!) with a passenger seat fitted and scared a few passengers, I think sammy and Jonathan edwardes even went out with him!! Mark Flannagan tried his luck in Sammys car and after spinning it in a corner, said “Its not as easy as it looks is it?” The Edwardes family were out in force and all having a go at driving. The car came back sounding poorly after the first session but the fault was swiftly fixed and car back out for more. 485 Ian “entertainer”
Clark was upto his old tricks and after the drivers briefing, (no overtaking
in corners - do not go on the grass – no sliding round corners
etc..) was crowd pleasing again. So the entertainer, Dave bell and Neil wade took the last slot at 4pm and managed to “accidentally” go on the grass – take out the “start overtaking” signs whilst sideways side by side in a corner!!! Great stuff and there was not much which bothered the minicrossers who put on a cracking demo for the club watched by thousands of mini fans. A mention must go out to the Redditch mini owners club aka Tom Collet, James collet (ed’s brothers!) and the boys, who arrived in minis and all went out on track together – it was messy – tom loosing a front tyre mid corner! Many thanks to the wades for putting in the effort to arrange it all, setting up the stand and talking to many interested mini fans. Event the sun came out which topped off a great day all round.
Roll on next year –
an event not to be missed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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