V8 Column
for September 2004 published in Safety Fast!, the award winning monthly magazine of the MG Car Club

Silverstone-MG80 proved to be wonderful yet again with a full racing programme on both days and much more including members' 20 minute track laps sessions on Sunday morning. The weather was kind with a beautifully sunny and fresh day on Saturday and only a few local light rain showers during Sunday. The dedicated V8 parking area alongside the V8 Marquee was in a new location between the foot of the two bridges over the Club Straight. It proved a popular spot for over 100 V8s parked up alongside the V8 Marquee on Saturday.


Supper at the Star Inn in Sulgrave bathed in evening sunshine on Friday evening - a popular start to the weekend. ((Photo: Victor Smith)

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V8 Marquee with over a 100 V8s parked up alongside on Saturday. The new location between the two bridges was popular. (Photo: Gavin Bailey)


John Hill (Damask 1845) and son Adam from Warwickshire line up for the track laps session on Sunday morning. They thoroughly enjoyed their two sessions on the circuit. (Photo: Victor Smith)

An informal V8 BBQ was organised by Walter Kallenberg and John Targett on Saturday evening with ample supplies of Walter's own sausages together with some really tasty sausages from Sussex and Lincolnshire. The V8 AGM at the V8 Marquee saw two new committee members elected to the team of eight! Al Barnett has taken on planning and coordinating V8 Events now he is back in the UK, and Mike Russell has taken on V8 Regalia. David Biddle has volunteered to run the V8 Curry again in February 2005. Full details of the V8 Committee and Team contacts are on the V8 Website together with a longer report on Silverstone-MG80.