MG XPower Girl Goes for World Record
24 July 2004
Fast lady driver Fiona Leggate will be attempting to
create a little bit of history this weekend as she tries to break the
Guinness World Record for competing in most motor sport speed events
in 24 hours - and she is doing it all in MGs.
Fiona will start the ball
rolling with an eight lap race in a 190bhp MG ZR at the MG International
Race Meeting at Silverstone.As soon as that race finishes she will
be whisked off the grid in a fast (MG) car to a waiting helicopter
where she will fly to Brands Hatch in Kent to take over the works two
litre MG ZR that former British Rally Champion Gwyndaf Evans will be
driving in a two hour Britcar endurance race. Ten minutes later she
will be on the starting grid for the one hour Britcar Enduro before
handing the car back to Gwyndaf. After the race it's back to Silverstone
for dinner.
On Sunday morning she has to practice and then race an
MG ZS replica BTCC car in the MGCC sprint, a car she has never even
sat in before.
Then, provided she can stay awake, there are another
four races on Sunday afternoon in MGs ranging from a modern MG ZR to
an MGB built before Fiona was born.
MG Sport & Racing Manager and
legendary MG race driver Don Kettleborough said: "working out
the schedule for this record attempt has been a logistical nightmare.
All the races will be very competitive, so if she can pull it off,
with the help of the MG Sport & Racing Team and others,
Fiona will have earned the world record."
The MG International three day meeting, which is expected
to attract over 30,000 spectators from Friday to Sunday - second only
to the British Grand Prix - and some 5000 MGs from all over the world,
is celebrating the 80th anniversary of the first ever MG this weekend
at Silverstone, Northants. Racing starts at 13.15 Saturday July 24.
Some 400 MGs will be competing over the weekend.
The 1924 MG No 1 will
be part of a magnificent display at the track of eight decades of
MGs as will the latest MG XPOWER SV supercar.
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