MGCC BCV8 Championship

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The MG Car Club's long established BCV8 Championship is the premier series for MGB and MGC racing, offering classes for the fully modified V8s to road going cars.

The BCV8 Championship has been one of the most successful Club based motor racing series and continues to thrive by providing close racing with full grids at a relatively low cost.

The roots of the Championship were planted as far back as 1974, by two enthusiasts Victor Smith and Barry Sidery Smith who together with a group of like minded guys raced the popular MGB, an affordable sports car for motor sports enthusiasts since its early years in the sixties.

The successes with the MGB and MGC in national and international competitions in the sixties are legendary with the Monte Carlo Rally in 1964, Le Mans in 1963, 1964 and 1965 and the Sebring in 1968. Achieved in the hands of talented drivers like Paddy Hopkirk,

The Racing Regulations for the BCV8 Championship were drafted back in the middle of 1976 in the Old Ship at Mortlake opposite the finishing line of the annual Boat Race by Victor with the help of Vic Ellis, Roy McCarthy and Rob Innes-Ker who were active MGA racers at that time. These lads had just formed the MGA Championship which had its first serious racing Season in 1976 and Victor and Barry decided that this was the way to go with MGB's so wanted to know how it was done and the BCV8 Championship was born at the start of 1977. The MGB's safe and predictable handling has over the years encouraged many enthusiasts to enter club circuit racing events.

Roy and Rob are still racing even now, Roy racing a fully modified V8 in the BCV8 Championship with much success but now sponsored by Age Concern!

The MGBV8 has played a major part in the spectator value of the BCV8 series and the powerful full-house machines have raised the performance envelope substantially. However, the V8 has not eclipsed the 1800 based machines and modified MGB racing is as close and exciting as ever.

The standard class racing today is extraordinarily good in that the cars frequently run within inches of each other whereas in the seventies being within two cars' lengths seemed very close indeed! There is also a class to accommodate those pre 1965 cars running under their FIA homologation papers with young drivers like Ollie Bryant, Tom Smith and brothers James and Jeremy Cottenham starting their racing careers in the Championship.

Today the MGCC's BCV8 Championship has some of the closest racing you could wish to see and is as popular as ever, packed with MGB enthusiasts - not only the older members but most important younger competitors and their friends. The MGB is still an affordable sports car for club racing and the spares suppliers have created an availability of parts which is as good as ever.

Rob Gravett, the successful production saloon car racer, Rob Huff the current Chevrolet World Touring Car driver, David Franklin, Terry Osborne, Barry Sidery-Smith, Malcolm Beer, Warwick Banks to name just a few who give their thanks to the BCV8 Championship for having provided them with a way of entering enjoying motor racing and learning the basic skills in a friendly and affordable club series.

Come and join us and find out.


CLASSES to enter. There will be five classes, as follows:

CLASS A - Standard MGB, MGBGT, MGC and MGCGT.
CLASS AB - FIA MGB with Homologation Papers
CLASS B - Road Modified MGB, MGBGT, MGC, MGCGT, Standard MGBGTV8*
CLASS C - Full Race MGC, MGCGT and Controlled 3.9 engined MGB and MGBGT.
CLASS D - Full Race MGBGTV8 Conversions of MGB GT and Roadster

Cars Available

Cars for sale or hire that are eligible for this championship or series are shown at the bottom of this page. Please click here to jump down to see them.

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Eligible Cars for Sale or Hire

With some modification

MGB GT V8				For Sale
Mgb gt v8 conversion. Mot june 2009, tax february 2009.
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