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Midland Tyre Shaving – Race Results 2024

With 4 different championships switching to a new tyre type for the upcoming 2024 season and 1 championship changing the regulations to make tyre shaving legal, the opportunity continued for Midland to show the value of it’s products.

Challenge Accepted. A few phone calls later I had a plan.

In 2024, I decided to supply my product to a very limited number of drivers in the BRSCC MX5 MK1 Championship and the BRSCC MX5 Clubman Championship. I would work with Colin Smart, aka Cresta Racing, in the Scottish National Legend Championship with 2 cars. I would also work with a small number of drivers in the BRSCC Compact Cup Championship. In addition, I would supply tyres to around 6 cars in the C1 Series.

As it turned out, I also worked with a very low number of Historic Racing customers.

5 Club Racing, also a MK1 MX5 Championship, were switching to a Massimo Tyre for 2024 and onwards. The new coordinators, Adrian Johnson and Ben Hancy, on hearing I was available for tyre shaving, soon contacted me, having been customers of my products previously. They knew the value of having a Midland Tyre Shaving Product on all cars in their new venture and a deal to supply the whole Championship was soon agreed.

How Did the Plan For 2024 Turn Out for Midland Tyre Shaving customers?

  • BRSCC MX5 MK1 Championship
  • 22 race season
  • 17 Wins
    47 Podiums
    13 Fastest Laps
    Championship Results
    1st Tom Langford
    2nd Adam Sparrow
    3rd Luke Pullen
    Masters Champion
    Tim Dore
  • BRSCC has had a MK1 Championship for 13 seasons and Midland Tyre Shaving products have won them all.
  • BRSCC MX5 Clubman Championship

  • 15 race season
  • 8 Wins
    20 Podiums
    9 Fastest Laps
  • BRSCC Compact Cup Championship

  • 18 race season
  • 6 Wins
    14 Podiums
    5 Fastest Laps

  • Scottish National Legends
  • Colin Smart, aka Cresta Racing, target being the first team car to score more Championship points than the individual Champion, something never before achieved or been near.

  • The Championship moved to a new tyre type for 2024, supplied by Nankang. After a brainstorming session, I supplied 3 different tyre profiles for Cresta Racing to test. After a day’s testing at Anglesey, the strategy and profile were selected. Fronts were one profile, whilst the rears were another.
  • Cresta Racing running 2 cars, 1 with a rookie in and 1 with 3 different drivers to cover all the events.

    Target achieved with multiple wins and podiums for the rookie and the team car. The team car beat the individual champion by 395 points. The first time ever done in over 30 years of Scottish Legends Championship.

  • Historic Racing
  • Midland Tyre Shaving was only able to work with 4 cars for Goodwood Revival. 2 of the cars put on what is described by many as the best RAC Club TT Celebration race ever.
  • The TVR Griffith of Mike Whitaker/Tom Ingram and the AC Cobra with Ollie Bryant and Jake Hill as pilots, were running unique tyre profiles machined by Midland Tyre Shaving.
    Finishing 1st and 2nd.

  • The only other Historic tyres Midland Tyre Shaving was able to work with were on the Julian Thomas AC Cobra that took part in the Gentleman Drivers Race at the Spa 6 Hour Event. Taking the lead of the race on lap 7, going on to win the 28-lap race, including taking an extra pit stop.
  • C1 Racing Series
  • 5 events in 2024

  • 4 Wins
    8 Podiums
    4 Fastest Laps

  • In addition, Midland Tyre Shaving supplied 6 cars with tyres for the Race of Remembrance. Midland Customers taking:

    1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 5th in the AC1 Class

    C1 Eurocup 24 Hour 2024

    3 x 8 hour sessions made up the 24 hours

    This was a multi-class event with UK and European Spec class cars.

    The winner of the UK Spec car was number 347, the J W Bird Motorsport entry, with drivers Nick Beaumont, Paul O’Neill and Phil House winning the UK Spec class and finishing 5th overall. The only car Midland Tyre Shaving Limited supplied tyres to.

    The next UK Spec car in the event finished 7 laps behind.

  • 5 Club Racing
  • The deal was for Midland Tyre Shaving to supply every participant with identical profiled tyres to the Championship.
  • This has been a factor in 5 Club having its best grid numbers of recent times, and many inquiries for 2025.

  • Hence, Midland Tyre Shaving will continue for the foreseeable future supplying a product that’s good in the dry and the wet.

What our customers think

The tyres are so good it’s like we are cheating

I want to say thank you, what you have produced with the tyres is nothing short of incredible

Thank you for being our tyre shaver this year, it gave us the edge

I only ever want Marcus’s magic tyres on my cars

Dad says it’s all down to the Marcus special tyres

Having now raced a set of Midland profiled tyres, I am in no doubt that any driver using your tyres is at a clear advantage

Ok Marcus, you have proved your point, now please do me some tyres

I wish to apologise to all who have requested my tyres this year that I have had to turn away due to my health restricting my ability to fulfil the volume.

For Tyre Shaving enquiries in the 2025 season

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