May 2011 MAGAZINE - MG Car Club Newcastle

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CLUBTORQUEPage 28“Words of Wisdom” – Concours 2011from Fran Hodgson, Concours DirectorFor weeks it had been forecast to rain on Easter Saturday, then gradually as theday drew closer the forecasts grew a little brighter – thank heavens for slow movingsystems. The day was magic with bright sunshine and light breezes.The Foreshore has never looked better than with the gathering of 150 shiny MGsdisplayed across 31 classes. This meant that I needed 90 judges so most of thecompetitors were kept busy. I didn’t get a chance to look at any of the cars andhad to get someone else to line up my own car as I was busy directing traffic. Ihad lots of help from willing club members who must have thought I was usingthem more as chicanes! – “go to the man in the fluoro vest three rows down andturn left and find the next official half way down that row!”. Except for Marta Redheadwho seemed to hear “Marta, get back to your row!”. Marta tells me it’s becausepeople kept asking her to assist them but it always seemed to happen justwhen I was sending a car her way! Kerry Woollard, Ken McLeod, Scott McGarry,Tom Heard, Sue and Darval Thomas, Dale Powell, Bryn Baverstock, Mark Jarman,Marta and Phil Redhead were all out on the park. Darren and Lyall hammeredin all the class signs. My son Luke was a great help to me by handing outthe judging sheets to all cars when they arrived, even the ice cream van – I suspectthat may have been his favourite on the park.My instructions to judges were simple, don’t be too critical of a car when theowner is standing close by, no tied scores and make sure the car you thinkshould win gets the most points. One group came back with a tie – I sent themback to choose between the two cars. Two groups came back with scores thatdidn’t reflect the order in which they ranked the cars and lots of people need helpadding up! Some might say this means the judging sheet was too complicated.They could be right.In the end the owners of cars who won were very happy and some of the ownersof cars that didn’t win were very sad. That is the joy and sorrow of Concoursing –it is a subjective business. Even the learned texts differ in their opinions aboutoriginality aspects. Three different judges might look at the same set of cars andcome up with a different result – but I am confident that all the judging groups appliedthemselves with due diligence and respect for the cars and for that I amvery thankful.The Outright trophies all went to NSW Club members: Ron Taylor with his TA forthe Pre MGA group; Margaret Norman with her MGB for the Post TF – 1980group and Eric and Dawn Hayes with their MGF in the Modern category. Dawncried at the Presentation Night – she’d had a very bad day, had been feeling unwelland even though her F beat my ZS out of Outright, her joy made me cry aswell. (It’s ok, I can console myself with Joan Richmond for another year). Havingthe Nat Meet in Newcastle pulled a few cars out of retirement – Mick Barclay had
May 2011a last hoorah and won his class with his MGB Mk2 and now tells me he is readyto consider selling it. Peter Polglase picked up 2 nd with his MGB Mk1 in class Kand Jeff Newey had the last laugh when his racing MGB came 3 rd in class J.The local news came and filmed and after 5 minutes of interview to pick from -aired my great words of wisdom when asked what I like about MGs – “they lookcool and go fast!”Fran HodgsonLyall ClarkePage 29
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