MG XPOWER Girl Goes For World Record
Published: 24th July 2004
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.
