MX-5 Cup Round 4 Wrap

2019 MX-5 Cup Round 4 - photo by Alek Hoskins

25 July 2019 / Story by Paul Nudd, Photos by Alek Hoskins, Video by Stuart McFadyen

It was a fabulous day of MX-5 Cup racing at Sydney Motorsport Park GP circuit on Sunday 21 July 2019. Ten MX-5s entered for Round 4 and we were combined on-track with RX-8s and Group N Historic and Invited Touring Cars.

Curran Brennan took the chequered flag in all three races, closely followed by Tim Herring. Click HERE for a more detailed story from SB Auto and lots more of Alek's great photos.

Class A was a close battle between Stuart McFadyen and Ben Cathcart with Stuart coming out on top in races 1 and 2 and Ben in race 3. Stuart's video of the last race is definitely worth a watch! Stuart livestreams his races so make sure you follow his Facebook page if you're keen to see more.

Third in Class A was the rapidly improving newcomer Mitchell Hall, finishing the day with a 1:50.4268 - watch this space.

Class B was contested by Craig Barney, Steven Head and Paul Nudd. A close contest between Steven and Paul resolved to three wins for Paul and three second places for Steven.

Class C consisted of the two Robs, Herrick and Withers. Again very close with Rob Herrick in front in races 1 and 2. In race 3 Rob Herrick made one costly mistake and Rob Withers got through and held onto his position to the chequered flag.

Being on-track with the RX-8 Cup cars worked out just fine. A great day was had by all.

2019 MX-5 Cup Round 5 will be at Wakefield Park on Saturday 24 August as part of MRA Round 7. Entries are open now - click HERE. Being at Wakefield Park, the entry fee is lower at only $270. There is also a one hour enduro for SuperTT on Sunday 25. MX-5 Cup cars qualify for SuperTT and are welcome to enter. Entry fee for the enduro is $360 and MRA offers a discount to those who enter for both Saturday and Sunday. MRA also runs a regularity category and the fees for that are $200 for Saturday alone, $200 for Sunday alone or $300 for those who enter for both days.This is excellent value for track time and you get to be part of the race meeting. So get your entries in and see if we can fill the grid with MX-5s.