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6 Jun 2006, 11:47 (Ref:1628425) | #1 | ||
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Alternative GP Weekend
Alternative GP Weekend, what will you be doing.
Believe it or not there are actually some of us that for whatever reason have voted with their feet and decided not to Marshal the GP, so despite there being footy on telly, what will you be doing this weekend that you think is more entertaining than watching FI. For me it is a toss up between cleaning out the hamsters cage or washing the whippet down, so how about you? Balders |
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6 Jun 2006, 11:54 (Ref:1628433) | #2 | ||
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My weekend is packing the car, then catching the Poole-Cherbourg ferry enroute to Le Mans.
Poste 106 here we come!!!! Steve |
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6 Jun 2006, 11:58 (Ref:1628437) | #3 | ||
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I will be at the GP, but if I wasn't there I would be at Lydden Hill for the BARC South Eastern Classic meeting, which with nearly every type of tin top I can think of will be a great meeting!
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6 Jun 2006, 12:05 (Ref:1628443) | #4 | ||
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2 meetings in Kent
I have a choice of 750MC at Brands Hatch or BARC at Lydden. In both cases a friendly atmosphere with no posers. No traffic jams are predicted. I expect to spend one day at each.
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6 Jun 2006, 12:25 (Ref:1628465) | #5 | ||
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Head-banging at Bon Jovi in MK (was supposed to be Wembley, but the eedjut builders couldn't get their acts together )
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6 Jun 2006, 12:54 (Ref:1628494) | #6 | ||
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VSCC at Oulton Park including some "real" F1 cars from HGPCA
Really looking forward to it. |
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6 Jun 2006, 13:49 (Ref:1628528) | #10 | ||
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Saturday - Nothing!
Sunday - Nothing Bugger.......forgot to mention I have a 12-hr works shift from 2pm saturday! |
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6 Jun 2006, 14:32 (Ref:1628547) | #11 | ||
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There you go Guys( and Ladies!); there is still a full life despite the British GP, whatever Bernie may think!!!!
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6 Jun 2006, 14:50 (Ref:1628557) | #12 | ||
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Racegypsy and I will be at the 750 MC event at Brands. I'll be the one in the obviously borrowed orange suit... Even got my tickets in the mail yesterday, all the way to Vancouver from England. I was floored!
I gave up doing GPs back in the 90's after enduring one too many edicts telling me how to do my job in Montreal. Wouldn't even let us wear red foam clown noses when lined up at the stations for pre-track closing inspections (maybe they thought it was a comment on the inspections themselves, a point of view not entirely incorrect). Never mind that the FIA was too cheap to put porta-potties out for the workers, so we had to stand in line with a bunch of drunk Quebecers in the spectator areas. Yuck. keke |
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6 Jun 2006, 15:23 (Ref:1628571) | #13 | ||
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Saturday VSCC at Oulton - interesting cars, entertaining drivers and organisers who don't try and take liberties.
Sunday, Owen Motor Club Sprint at Curborough. Relaxed day of grass roots motorsport. Might even listen to the GP on the radio. There again, might forget all about it. Regards Jim |
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6 Jun 2006, 15:39 (Ref:1628578) | #14 | ||
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VSCC Oulton for me too, but I will not be entirely untouched by Bernie's circus.
I wish to travel the A43 from the M40 to the M1 on the way to Oulton (don't ask!) but thanks to the Grand Prix the A43 has been declared a cul-de-sac for three days I suppose it will have to be A46, M69 instead. |
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6 Jun 2006, 15:57 (Ref:1628594) | #15 | ||
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Anglesey for the two days of the Chester MC sprint meeting, sun sea and good cars hopefully a great weekend
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6 Jun 2006, 16:39 (Ref:1628627) | #16 | ||
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I'll be at Oulton on Midland Hills Rescue Unit. Looks like it could be a good day
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6 Jun 2006, 22:10 (Ref:1628860) | #17 | |
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I shall be spending the weekend in Brittany and then on to Le Mans sometime on Monday.
Poste 0, startline and pit wall, once again. |
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6 Jun 2006, 22:33 (Ref:1628870) | #18 | ||
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I think a weekend in the sunshine at Silverstone with a barbie and the beers will be lovely!
Hope you all have a great time and I almost wish I was going now!! However Lydden for me if I'm not having to stop England fans fighting each other and throwing up in the gutter!! |
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6 Jun 2006, 16:44 (Ref:1628631) | #19 | ||
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Teaching under 17's to drive round the Thruxton paddock!!! Am I mad or what...........
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6 Jun 2006, 18:42 (Ref:1628704) | #20 | ||
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Concreting the new caravan patch on Saturday morning, lunch with friends on Sunday, or Loton if they can't make it (50:50 at the mo). Frankly, I'd prefer to do anything rather than give up my time to help Bernie earn another few million!
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I'll be at Snetterton marshalling a bike meeting.
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Good grief, here we go again. Just because you don't like the GP for whatever reason, pleases don't rubbish it for those of us who do like going. As has been said so many times before you choose which meetings you go to, that is fair enough. Many of us go for the atmosphere of the racing, despite the time spent hanging around, and the social side on the marshals camp site is brilliant. We don't get that too often.
So, you go and enjoy another race meeting, or watch paint dry, or concrete set, or whatever it is you choose to do. That's your privilege and I won't knock it! But please respect my choice as well. |
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I reserve the right, however, to state that I personally think the GP sucks. I give my time willingly and happily for the sport at all levels, but F1 is not, to my mind, about sport. It's all about a bunch of obscenely wealthy people trying to become ever more obscenely wealthy while making none of that available to the places and people who provide the means for them to do so, on top of which they criticize them regularly while displaying absolute ignorance of what they do and total ingratitude for their considerable sacrifices and ability. Indeed, they are systematically undermining us by heading to places where there is no experienced marshalling force and assuring everyone that it doesn't matter. |
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No Clive, here YOU go again! I can't see that anyone is rubbishing your decision to work the GP and I agree 100% with you that the atmosphere amongst the marshals is brilliant and no - we don't see that very often. However, I will reserve the right to rubbish the event (Not those who are marshalling it, not the FIA, not Bernie and not event the MSA to a certain degree). I have marshalled seven BGP (I think) but this year was rejected by the selection committee for being "Unreliable". The past three years were volunteered for by me but on each occasion had to withdraw for what I think are very valid reasons (The Missus being very ill - My Mum passing away and the car seizing up whilst actually en-route to Silverstone). On two of those occasions, apologies were sent to the Secretary of the meeting at the MSA, and tickets duly returned. The one where the car broke down resulted in a very late call to the (then) Chief of my discipline and again, tickets were retuned to the MSA. So I was turned down this year! I do understand that the organisers need some sort of reliability amongst the volunteers obviously, but at the moment I still feel a bit bitter towards those that do the selections. Clive, I hope you have a crackin' weekend - and the same to everyone else who's going. I shall probably video the race......not for the "Action" but to see who I recognise in Orange (or black!) |
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6 Jun 2006, 21:03 (Ref:1628805) | #25 | ||
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nice'ly put clive..lets hope the replies are gentlemanly too.
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