No pictures yet so I'll make do with these pictures of the Lunar Racing MG ZS taking two podium finishes in the Britcar production championships at Rockingham Motor Speedway over the weekend:
http://www.zscentral.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6022&sid=e9e9365116d7fffce63d93c9f707acbc
As regular readers will know, last year the MGs did rather well in Chinese Rally Championships with both the MG7 and MG3 SW taking race wins during the season running in the red and black colours of the Maxxis Tyres racing team. At the end of last year the MG3 SW rally car appeared at a number of Auto Shows in green MG XPower colours suggesting a greater factory involvement for 2009.
So far we have not heard from the MG race team in 2009, but we do now have the event timetable:
2009 National Rally Championship (CRC) race calendar:
First event
Jiangsu Jiangning
June 12-14
Second event
Beijing Huairou
July 3-5
Third event
Guangdong Fogang
August 14-16
Fourth event
Fujian Shaowu
September 18-20
Fifth event
Zhejiang Longyou
November 13-15
Alternative event
Shanghai
To be determined
The most notable observation is that the traditional Shanghai road (ashphalt) event, the seasons opening event won last year by the MG7 and which has now been held for 8 consecutive years, is not listed!
Instead the season will open on June 12th in Nanjing! Jiangsu Province has never before held the National Rally Championships so the event is eagerly awaited. Mid summer in Nanjing is hot, sometimes very hot, and normally dry. The event is mainly on gravel stages concentrated in the scenic resorts of the Jiangning mountains and should provide a spectacular start and a complete contrast to the mud and eventual washout at Longyou that ended the 2008 season.
Will we see the MG3 looking like this?
or will it return in its red and black Maxxis colours, in either case I believe it will be run once again by the Maxxis team, with factory support.
Note: "Jiangning mountains" - "Jiangning" as in Jiangsu - is a district of Nanjing and one of the top tourist spots in China. It has a history of human occupation running back at least 400,000 years and has had billions of yuan spent on preserving its ecology.
http://www.zscentral.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6022&sid=e9e9365116d7fffce63d93c9f707acbc
As regular readers will know, last year the MGs did rather well in Chinese Rally Championships with both the MG7 and MG3 SW taking race wins during the season running in the red and black colours of the Maxxis Tyres racing team. At the end of last year the MG3 SW rally car appeared at a number of Auto Shows in green MG XPower colours suggesting a greater factory involvement for 2009.
So far we have not heard from the MG race team in 2009, but we do now have the event timetable:
2009 National Rally Championship (CRC) race calendar:
First event
Jiangsu Jiangning
June 12-14
Second event
Beijing Huairou
July 3-5
Third event
Guangdong Fogang
August 14-16
Fourth event
Fujian Shaowu
September 18-20
Fifth event
Zhejiang Longyou
November 13-15
Alternative event
Shanghai
To be determined
The most notable observation is that the traditional Shanghai road (ashphalt) event, the seasons opening event won last year by the MG7 and which has now been held for 8 consecutive years, is not listed!
Instead the season will open on June 12th in Nanjing! Jiangsu Province has never before held the National Rally Championships so the event is eagerly awaited. Mid summer in Nanjing is hot, sometimes very hot, and normally dry. The event is mainly on gravel stages concentrated in the scenic resorts of the Jiangning mountains and should provide a spectacular start and a complete contrast to the mud and eventual washout at Longyou that ended the 2008 season.
Will we see the MG3 looking like this?
or will it return in its red and black Maxxis colours, in either case I believe it will be run once again by the Maxxis team, with factory support.
Note: "Jiangning mountains" - "Jiangning" as in Jiangsu - is a district of Nanjing and one of the top tourist spots in China. It has a history of human occupation running back at least 400,000 years and has had billions of yuan spent on preserving its ecology.
