CONGRATULATIONS TO JOSH FILES who has become the 2010 Thoroughbred Sportscar Championship Overall Champion.
MOTORING CLASSICS THOROUGHBRED SPORTSCAR CHAMPIONSHIP
RACE REPORT- 2nd October 2010 MGCC SNETTERTON – Round 8
The final round of the Season for Thoroughbreds was at Snetterton near Thetford with the M.G.Car Club’s two day meeting, Sunday being their four hour relay race and Season finale.  The circuit is 1.9520 miles long and we were to have a fifteen minute practice and a twenty minute race.
The weather forecast was for a cloudy/sunny day and you were lucky. Where I was watching from it was pouring with floods everywhere for most of the day and evening.
The Thoroughbreds had a fantastic grid of twenty eight on the day but problems in the Morgan Challenge race put both Chris Acklam who had a rearranged front end and kinked chassis and Roger Whiteside who had both practiced, out of the race noted as number seven on the programme of events, so 26 turned up to race.
Included in this total was a special ‘Stig’ who represented dad Roy McCarthy. Roy had been able to sort out his head gasket problems after his last trip out on the 4th/5th September at Donington and had told us that the engine felt the best it had ever felt.  Roy would not be able to make the race and had asked Spencer to represent him at the last race of his 40th Season of racing.
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