CHAIRMANS NEWS By the time the April edition of Safety Fast! is out, I will have had my first vaccination, so on the path back to some normality. My local mass vaccination centre is at the Stoneleigh Show ground, so the MG will be visiting the site later than usual in the year, but as the Awaiting the Ferry on my return from a Norwegian European Event of the Year trip has to be down an essential one, I may as well take the he restrictions due to Covid are MGF Trophy. Let us hope the Road Map planned to be released in stages works as planned and we can start to use here in England following the latest the cars again in earnest. Road Map issued by the government. There are still some events being Slightly different regulations are cancelled but things are looking much in place for the other three parts of brighter for later in the year. Sadly, we will the United Kingdom so keep an eye on be missing out on the first race meeting your local information. Even though the of the year on the Silverstone National, as restrictions are being relaxed in stages, it is the Motor Sport UK permit will still not be still going to be a few months before we available for the March meeting due to the can start to use our cars and meet up with restrictions still being in place. The Club is friends in the numbers that we are used to.
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now planning for the Brands Hatch meeting in April which should be able to happen. Events in July seem more than likely to be able to happen if everything goes to plan. The MGF Register is expecting that the postponed MGF25 event from 2020 will be able to happen at the British Motor Museum on the 24th and 25th. The Silverstone Classic is also online to happen. Most events have Covid-secure booking for the tickets so you can start to plan your return to events and add some dates to those empty calendars that we all have. The Triumph & MG Weekend in midAugust, a new event for the Club, is already receiving a lot of interest from members. This weekend will allow the Midget Register to celebrate 60 years of the Midget and the ZED Register, 20 years of the MG ZEDs. Colin Grant has recently resigned from the position of Company Secretary. We thank him for the time that he has been in the role. Edward Vandyk has now accepted the invitation to take on the Company Secretary role and we welcome him to the team. Keith Williams
We’re all hoping that 2021 is the year where we can go out and enjoy our MGs again. Over the past year, some MGs have been lucky enough to be daily driven but on the flip side, there are some MGs who are patiently waiting for show season to return! 2021 is a special year as there’s not just one model anniversary but two. This year sees the Club celebrating 20 years of the MG Zeds and 60 years of the MG Midget. Both of these anniversaries will be celebrated at the Triumph & MG Weekend, Malvern, August 13-15 2021. If you didn’t think things could get any better, the Club will also be celebrating the anniversary that, unfortunately, could not go ahead in 2020 due to Government restrictions. MGF25, the silver anniversary event for the MGF and TF, will be taking place at the British Motor Museum on July 24 2021. Further information on these events will be available in Safety Fast! over the next couple of months – stay tuned!
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