Author Archives: ianbeningfield
A very belated update
As always I start the season with good intentions to keep the updates coming but then life always seems to get in the way. The 2024 season started this weekend and there’s been a busy winter but its only as I logged in this evening I realised just how bad I was last year with […]
Changing the final drive
The week before at Gurston I started to think about whether the change in tyre size with the switch to the smaller 1b tyres this year was having an impact on my times. The new tyres are around 7.5% smaller rolling circumference than my old rainexperts which means for the same revs I’m covering less […]
Gurston Down – April 2023
Almost as soon as the car was unloaded from Wiscombe it was time to pack up again for Gurston, just enough time to pressure wash the several kilos of mud from the underside of the car. Again the forecast for the weekend was mixed, although we had rain the week before it wasn’t as bad […]
Wiscombe – April 2023
After a few MG rounds it was time to kick off the 2023 Classic Marques season with a double header at Wiscombe Hillclimb in Devon. Over the winter there had been plans to resurface the track but sadly that was delayed till later on this year so no fresh new tarmac and compared to the […]
Curborough – April 23
The way the season has panned out this year events are thick and fast at the start of the year, so a week after Cadwell it was time for the next MGCC event at Curborough sprint circuit. After the wet weather at Cadwell it, the forecast was much better for the weekend, although some light […]
Cadwell Park – March 2023
With all the dramas of the day before I’d arrived at the circuit very late on Friday evening and with the exhaust still a little lower than I’d like my race day morning began by removing (in the rain) the spacers from the front suspension to give a little more ground clearance, once I get […]
Cadwell Park – getting to the startline
So as always, and despite having a mini sabbatical from work that should have given me lots of time, the start of the season has rolled around already and the first event a sprint round of the MG championship at Cadwell Park in Lincolnshire is here. Over the winter I’d done a lot of work […]
New Tyres
The change class in the MG Championship now means I can run better tyres from the MSUK 1b list, although I’ll take a penalty to my handicap in Classic Marques as this is factored by bhp (and I don’t have too many) and the big performance gain over the limited standard road tyres on a […]
2023 Plans
Calendars are out, and as a results of the trend over the last few years for online entries to open and fill fast, events are entered already. Once again I’ll be running the Midget in both the MG Car Club and Classic Marques championships, cross over between the two series are limited again this year […]
Decisions Decisions
The 2022 season is long over now and the start of 2023 is just around the corner, and as always I’m behind in putting down my thoughts. Normally the offseason comes with a list of jobs and running repairs which in my case often get left far too late to get completed but for 2023 […]
MG Midget 1500 