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Elise Trophy at Donington Park - cancelled!
09 April 2009
First off we'd like to make clear that the Lotus Show at Donington Park on the 18th & 19th April is not affected by the following and will continue as planned.

The Elise Trophy rounds at Donington Park on 18th/19th April have been cancelled due to the event being cancelled by the event organisers MSVR.

Statement from MotorSport Vision Racing:-

MotorSport Vision Racing (MSVR), the racing division of MSV, has been forced to cancel its scheduled race event at Donington Park on 18/19 April as the circuit does not possess a valid, full track licence.

Following widely publicised concerns regarding recent development work at the circuit, MSVR requested assurances from Donington that all necessary works for the venue to receive a valid track licence from the governing body of motorsport in the UK, the MSA, would be completed ahead of the MSVR 'Blast in the Park' event in nine days' time. Mindful of the importance of competitors' planning and arrangements, Donington Park was given a deadline of 1pm today (Thursday 9 April) to address these concerns. However, MSVR received no communication from the circuit.

A spokesman for the MSA has also confirmed that they will not issue the circuit with a track licence until the circuit has been inspected and fully complies with MSA regulations. Accordingly, MSVR has been left with no alternative but to cancel the event in order to give the competitors, marshals and officials as much notice as reasonably possible.

MotorSport Vision's Chief Executive Jonathan Palmer said: "It's extremely disappointing that this remarkable situation has occurred, and that we have been forced to cancel our event at Donington Park due to the lack of a valid track licence. This has caused significant disruption to all of MSVR's competitors and series, including Formula Palmer Audi, that were due to race next weekend."

"It is quite unsatisfactory and particularly unacceptable that we have received no communication from the circuit on the matter. We are currently in discussions with all our series and championship coordinators to arrange alternative dates and venues, and these will be confirmed at the earliest opportunity."
What can i say what a B UP.

Eddie .

Just about sums up Donington organisers again, last weekend's HSCC races were held under difficult circumstances as no overtaking at macleans was allowed causing cars to back-up and parade through this section. From what we could see appart from a bit of soil moving and the offending half finished tunnel entrance under the circuit nothing else has changed at Donington.

Glad I held off buying the race tickets for the weekend

nearly booked hotel yesterday and race tickets, glad i never, what is still on? will it be worth the trip up?how on earth will they be ready for F1gp 2010

I hope everything is ready for the F1 in 2010.

I would think Silverstone would be watching ready to jump to the rescue for Bernie and his holding
a British race.

However I think Bernie would just love the excuss to exit British GP welcome Uzbekistan GP.
Last minute cancellations, signals that poor resource planning is happening, drop in revenues as events are cancelled. All this must warm his heart.

thats exactly what i said last year, don't think hill will want it back , but its a case ov the cash .

I was speaking with Paul Matty yesterday (Saturday 11th) and he said last weekend part of the track was being "Yellow Flaged" and caused 3 big crashes. He has one of the cars to repair £20K worth of damage. Maybe it's best closed.
Next year then

Chris Mayhew

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Elise Trophy wrote:This coming weekend's season opener for the Elise Trophy was looking like a disaster on Thursday night, when news broke that the opening round at Donington Park on 18th-19th April had been cancelled, due to Donington's lack of a circuit licence.

How things changed over the Bank Holiday weekend!

Elise Trophy organisers put their heads together with event organiser MSVR and other series organisers and pulled off a remarkable turnaround for their drivers. The race meeting was moved from Donington to Silverstone on Sunday 19th April. Unfortunately the Elise Trophy now has just the one grid. This is already confirmed as having a full complement of 40 starters, plus the maximum 8 reserves. However, drivers have slightly more track time; giving them the opportunity to learn a circuit some have never driven before and, with the inclusion of 4 other series on the day, it gives a fantastic afternoon of racing.

Read the full story:
http://www.lotus-central.com/index.php/en/news/192-etsilverstone190409.html

Confirmed Timetable

GT Cup - Practice - 09:00-09:30
GAZ Shocks Production BMW Championship - Qualifying 09:40-10:00
Lotus Elise Trophy - Free Practice - 10:10-10:25
Toyo Tires Racing Saloons - Qualifying - 10:35-10:55
Bells.. 10:55-11:10
GT Cup - Qualifying - 11:10 - 11:30
GAZ Shocks Production BMW Championship - Race 1 - 11:40-12:00
Lotus Elise Trophy - Qualifying - 12:10-12:35
Lunch... 12:35-13:35
Toyo Tires Racing Saloons - Race 2 - 13:35-13:55
Lotus Elise Trophy - Race 3 - 14:10-14:30
GT Cup - Race 4 - 14:45-15:10
GAZ Shocks Production BMW Championship - Race 5 - 15:25-15:45
Lotus Elise Trophy - Race 6 - 16:00-16:20
Toyo Tires Racing Saloons - Race 7 - 16:35-16:55