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MIDGET & SPRITE CHALLENGE: UK MOTORSPORT’S FRIENDLY FIRE

There are many things that set the MG Car Club’s Midget & Sprite Challenge apart from the rest of the club’s offering.

One is its longevity. It has been going for a full 44 years, being formed in 1977 by MG Midget passionate Larry Quinn, initially as the Midget Challenge before it was joined in 2012 by the Sprites from the Austin Healey Club to create an exclusive home for the ‘Spridget’pair of racing cars.

Yet Midget & Sprite Challenge is also set apart on pace, with its rear-wheel-drive cars – boasting favourable power-to-weight – among the quickest MGCC has, close to the pacesetters in the

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