The Saab Owner's Club GB will be inviting their members to join the Midland Speed Championship for the 2012 season, and giving a special award to the best performing Saab driver at the end of the season.  We would like to welcome SOC members to the championship and wish them an enjoyable and successful season.
 

The provisional regulations for the 2012 season, including entry form, are now available for download from this web-site.  These have not yet been approved by the MSA and are subject to change without notice.
 
Download Regulations Here

We will be making some changes to the Sports Libre classes in the Supplementary Regulations for the 2012 Midland Speed Championship.
The capacity splits for Sports Libre will be aligned with the capacity splits in Roadgoing and Modified Production Cars at 1400cc and 2000cc.

The scoring system used by the Midland Speed Championship for many years has been based on the idea that the second placed driver in a class will be a driver of a good standard who's time will represent a good target time for that class.  Points scoring has been based on time difference between a driver's time and the time of the second placed driver.  This has worked well in the past, but with the reduced number of competitors in the last two years, a driver's score at any given event has become dependent on who else has chosen to compete in the same class at that event.

The provisional calendar for the 2012 season is now on the web-site.  Most of the events have now been confirmed, but there are still a handful that might have to change.

The Awards Dinner is being held on Saturday 21 January 2012 at the Lea Marston Hotel. Prices for both the dinner and hotel accomodation have been held at last years levels and the price of the dinner is £27.50 per head if booked before 30 November or £30.00 per head thereafter. Booking forms have been E Mailed to registered contenders and can also be downloaded from the website using the following link:
Awards Dinner Booking Form

Midland Speed Champion 2011 - Jim Spencer
 
2nd Overall - Martin Depper
 
3rd Overall - Mike Roe
 

The results from the last three events are in and have been added to the scores.  Please check these carefully in case I have made any mistakes.  I intend to finalise the results on Monday 3rd October.
 
 

With the final two rounds of the 2011 Midland Speed Championship taking place this weekend many drivers will be resorting to the calculators to learn their final positions.
Jim Spencer still leads from Martin Depper in second place but Gary Thomas has taken over third spot from Mike Roe who suffered a mechanical failure last weekend at Loton Park.
Many of the class positions can still change so lots of drivers will be trying hard in order to improve their final points score in this, the championships 25th season.

A look at the score breakdown reveals that Stewart Lobley has set six new records this season so should stand a great chance of being overall champion in 2011. However it looks as though he may run out of rounds to achieve the maximum of eight 21 point scores he would need to reach the top of the table. Its still been a great effort from Stewart in a season where he had an engine failure half way through it.