Crash bang wallop what a photograph to para-phrase Tommy Steel from the film Half A Sixpence. Well there were lots of crash, bangs and a fair bit of wallop but not many photographs at the start of the Motorsport Vision Racing (MSVR) Club meeting at Cadwell.

The first race was red flagged due to crashes so while the safety crew were sorting out the crash barriers there was no racing for quite some time. When it did all start up again guess what, another red flag within a few minuets of the start. 

This is one of the reasons I prefer motorcycle racing. When an incident does occur its easer to clean up and generally the bikes don’t do to much damage to the safety fencing and barriers so we can get on with the racing.

This event at Cadwell had five race series for us to watch and photograph. The Track day Championship (TDC), The Mini Pro and Amateur (AM) Challenge, MINI Challenge - Cooper S and the MSVR All-Comers series.

At first glance the TDC is a collection of uprated track day cars going hell for leather for 45 min but it’s a bit more complicated that that. The race requires that you have two drivers that must swap over during a pit stop mid race.

There was a large grid for the TDC and when you mix in the pit stops its difficult to work out who is leading and what is going on during the race. 

Thankfully the commentator's, which there are two of them at Cadwell, have a good view of the track and are kept informed by the datalogging on the cars, so they can keep you up to speed on what is going on. 

The TDC is run on a class system with a difference. Basically any car is eligible within the class system running on Bhp to weight ratios. The top class is vehicles between 201 - 225 Bhp/tonnes and the lowest of the five classes being up to 125bhp / tonnes.

Clarke and Davey in the Mini Cooper S qualified in first place but it was Buky and Higginson driving the Honda Civic Type R who went onto win the TDC.

After the morning practice session had thinned out the Minis they were out in the afternoon to race. The Mini Challenge has two classes, The Cooper Pro Class car uses a 130Bhp 1.6lt normally aspirated engine and slick tyres.

The Cooper Am cars uses the same 1.6lt normally aspirated engine as the Cooper Class, but with the minimum weight increased by 30kg and treaded tyres.

Richard Newman hurtling through Hall bends on his way to qualified in first place with a fastest lap of 1:44.719.

It does exactly what is says on the tin, Charlie Cooper, the grandson of Mini legend John Cooper heading into Park corner.

The MSVR All-Comers series has been a staple for MSVR for years being one of the first race series MSVR ever organized.

It's an open race for any closed-wheel race cars, sports or saloon car mixing novices or race teams on the same track. Some were out there just having fun, others were taking it a bit more seriously.

After qualifying in third, Olly Allan driving his slightly secondhand, one careful owner Ford Fiesta went onto win the MSVR All-Comers.

Runner up in the MSVR All-Comers, Robert Forsdike in the Caterham CSR takes on the Mountain.

The Mini Challenge - Cooper S class is seen as one of the affordable routes into the British Touring Car Championship.

In this class the drivers are able to hone their skills in some very close racing.

The cars are limited to 180bhp per tonne and all run the same tyres which keeps the racing close and exciting to watch as well as keeping running costs down.

Two races were run in the Cooper S class with the first six grid positions reversed for the second race to keep it interesting. 

Jono Davis won both races with Will Fairclough and Daniel Butcher-Lord coming second and Rob Austin taking the final podium place.

I hope you have enjoyed this write up and photographs of the MSVR Club meeting at Cadwell. As always, I don’t claim to be an expert on this subject, it's just my observations of a day out with some friends carrying a camera and hopefully I will inspire some of you to get out there and take some great images.