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Issued: 10 February 2010 allan.dean-lewis@msauk.org
New MSC Chairman
The Board of the MSA has confirmed that Tony Scott Andrews has been selected to take over from Graham Stoker as Chairman of the Motor Sports Council with effect from 1 January 2010. Graham Stoker stood down following his election as FIA Deputy President for Sport.
Based in Oxfordshire, Tony has been a lawyer for 35 years and has held an MSA competition licence since 1971. He was a founder member and is now President of the Classic Saloon Car Club/Classic Touring Car Racing Club. Tony won the Pre-‘57 Modified championship in an MG in 1983 and claimed championship success again in 1990 in the Pre-‘65 category at the wheel of a Ford Mustang. Since then, when time allows, he has campaigned a Camaro, Falcon and most recently a Rover Vitesse in Historic Group 1 Touring Cars.
Tony is already a member of the Motor Sports Council and has chaired both the National Court and the Judicial Advisory Panel, as well as serving as a member of both the MSA Historic and Race Committees.
Challenge Events clarification
The MSA has issued a clarification of Regulation P24.2.1 to confirm that drivers in Challenge Events must hold an MSA competition licence. See Latest News section of MSA website.
Time Attack approved
The MSA now recognises the Time Attack Series as an approved form of motor sport. Originating in Japan as a way of proving the relative performance of street-tuned cars, Time Attack is a spectacular form of motor sport in which high-powered cars on road-legal tyres compete on regular motor sport circuits. www.timeattack.co.uk
New rally structure
The MSA has approved a proposal from the MSA Country Rally Championships (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales) and the MSA British Rally Championship to create a new sporting structure and working partnership that will deliver greater benefit for the growth and development of UK rallying.
A working group, consisting of one representative from each of the five championships, has committed to work towards the future development and sustainability of UK stage rallying. Initiatives will include a reduction in the sport's environmental impact, the evolution of a recognisable sporting structure, a co-ordinate strategy for the development of junior drivers and the introduction of common policies and sporting regulations.
Club Officials seminars 2010
Places are still available on some of the remaining seminars being run by the MSA (with the support of the British Motor Sports Training Trust). If you wish to attend, please check availability of places with Richard Nunn at the MSA ( rnunn@msauk.org or 01753 765071). More information about the seminars was in the December and November issues.
Day, date and broad locations are:
Saturday 20 February – North (York area)
Sunday 21 February – Eastern England (Peterborough area)
Saturday 27 February – Midlands (Solihull area)
Sunday 28 February – North West (Runcorn area)
Saturday 6 March – Wales (Llandrindod Wells area)
Sunday 7 March – South West (Exeter area)
Saturday 13 March – Scotland Central (Motherwell area)
Sunday 14 March – Scotland Highland (Inverness area)
Racing Steps up
The Racing Steps Foundation (RSF), which helps talented young British racing drivers realise their dreams, has committed substantial support for the MSA Academy programme for young British competition drivers.
The RSF's backing enables the MSA Academy substantially to increase the reach of its existing educational programme to deliver benefit to all of the 2,000 competition licence holders aged under 17.
Trees fees rooted
The MSA has confirmed that the fees charged for providing access to the Forestry Estate for MSA-permitted rally events will remain unchanged for the 2010 season.
MSA training provider
The MSA has been appointed as one of the first two Regional Training Providers by the FIA Institute for Motor Sport Safety and Sustainability to help increase the safety and training standards of motor sport officials across the world.
David Butler MBE
Due to an oversight, David Butler was described in a recent statement announcing his award of the MBE in the New Year's Honours List as having established the British Motor Sport Association for the Disabled (BMSAD) in 1987. We are pleased to confirm that the founding Chairman of the BMSAD was Jack Davidson of Aberdeen and Tony Reynolds followed him. David Butler is therefore the third Chairman of the BMSAD.
Blue Book on website
The 2010 MSA Competitors' and Officials' Yearbook (aka the Blue Book) can be downloaded from the MSA website. Other publications which can be downloaded include the 2010 Kart Race Yearbook , the Motor Club Manual , Motorsports Now! – the MSA magazine sent to competition licence holders and officials – and back issues of e-Wheels (in Word and pdf formats). Go to www.msauk.org > Clubs > Publications.
ENDS.