Tread test driver triumphs at Silverstone in MG series

Tread managing director and test driver, Ray Collier, won two races in the MGCC Cockshoot at Silverstone three weeks after claiming two wins at the Oulton Park season-opener.

The first of the two Silverstone wins came after what the MG Car Club newsletter described as “a superb race-long duel between his MG ZR 190 and the MG ZS 180 of Karl Green”, adding: “The pair traded the lead throughout, sometimes more than once per lap, before a slight mistake from Green on the final lap allowed Collier to make the decisive move and win by a third of a second”.

Collier, who had to manage a cracked brake disc in the first race, won the second race more comfortably: “I did really have to work hard for the first one,” admitted Collier. “It was really well driven by Karl. We were incredibly close and two or three or times we followed each other off!

“The second one, I could see that Karl was too far behind, so it was a case of making sure that every gear shift is perfect. I did miss it once and I just let the ‘box settle because the last thing you want to do is hit second, not fourth. So I did lose a couple of seconds there.”