MG Racers Visit Top F1 Circuit

04 June 2004

The MG Trophy is one of the most closely fought and popular race series in the UK motor sports calendar. The powerful MG ZR 160 hatch backs and MG TF sports cars have already wowed the crowds at some of the best circuits in the UK, including Silverstone and Rockingham, and now the show is off to Europe on 4-6th June to race on the awesome Spa Francorchamps F1 circuit in Belgium.

Spa is one of the fastest race circuits anywhere in the world and the MGs will be reaching speeds of 130+ mph (210 kph). The track also presents one of the world's most challenging bends at Eau Rouge which many a driver has tried to take flat out and come away with a bent motor car. Fiona Leggate in her first season of competition did just that last year in her MG ZR, but she was back at the next race and is now driving better than ever. She is bound to be challenging for a top six place this time.

Trying his best to beat her, along with the rest, will be Director of Engineering at MG Rover, Rob Oldaker. Driving a ZR, one of the products he helped to bring to market he is out to prove that one of the best ways to test a motor car is in on the race track.

Rob Oldaker said: " The MG ZR and TF have the same engines, the ZR in the front and TF behind the driver, but they are very evenly matched. Nearly thirty of these cars slipstreaming each other around such a magnificent circuit will be quite a spctacle".

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