It Could Have Been A Better Day Award
As we all know MGF/TFs are very reliable but sometimes things do go wrong and this award goes to someone or something for whom it really could have been a better day!
The award itself is made out of Tim Morris’s blown head gasket, he was Chairman of the Register at the time in 2007 and instigated the award.
| Year | Name | Citation |
| 2009 | Derek Varney | For locking his keys in the boot at no less than three shows during 2008! |
| 2010 | Dave Kerley | For breaking his steptronic gearbox the night before the Abingdon to Geneva Re-Run |
| 2011 | Simon & Julie Davies | For having a Trophy 160, 85th Anniversary TF and a Citroen crushed by a crashing MPV that also destroyed the front of their house – then having the repaired 85th hit from behind later the same year. |
| 2012 | Andrew Watson | Having brought a dilapidated MGF and restored it into a modified individual car promptly crashed into a tree. The car was later rebuilt. |
| 2013 | Stuart Blease | Broke down in his TF on the European Event of the Year to be trailered home. |
| 2014 | John & Lyn Ponting | Their TF was written off on the Luxemburg ring road. The replacement LE500 was also involved in an accident with an MPV! |
| 2015 | Lin & Pete Opie | Lin for breaking her foot on the MGFIM and Pete for having a car run into his stationary MGF on the way back! |
| 2016 | Michael & Marion Murkin | Michael & Marion Murkin were driving back from the German Neiderrhein Tour and were crossing Belgium with only a short distance to go to the ferry and unfortunately their TF was hit by a car coming towards them. Nearly every panel on the car was damaged and the car was a complete right off. A sad way for a car to end its life but it looked after its occupants really well |
| 2017 | Not Awarded | |
| 2018 | Alan Bradley | Not car related but for breaking his foot preventing him from attending the French National event |
| 2019 | Longbridge | Unusually the award went to a place – Longbridge which finally closed in a haze of bulldozer dust. A sad end. |
| 2020 | Everyone! | Not specifically awarded this year due to the Covid Pandemic – but it was a pretty bad year for everyone really! |
| 2021 | Phil Rigby | For breaking his ankle by falling off his bike just prior to an MGF race. |
| 2022 | Nigel May | Foe breaking down in his MGF en route to a natter and waiting in a “dubious” layby for 3 hours until recovery came. |