Alternative GP Weekend

M Greenslade · 6 Jun 2006, 11:47 (Ref:1628425)

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

Steve Tarrant · 6 Jun 2006, 11:54 (Ref:1628433)

My weekend is packing the car, then catching the Poole-Cherbourg ferry enroute to Le Mans.

Poste 106 here we come!!!!

Steve

chezza · 6 Jun 2006, 11:58 (Ref:1628437)

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!

Alan Brown · 6 Jun 2006, 12:05 (Ref:1628443)

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.

PipSqueak111 · 6 Jun 2006, 12:25 (Ref:1628465)

Head-banging at Bon Jovi in MK (was supposed to be Wembley, but the eedjut builders couldn't get their acts together

)

Gordon Knight · 6 Jun 2006, 12:54 (Ref:1628494)

VSCC at Oulton Park including some "real" F1 cars from HGPCA
Really looking forward to it.

Mark Mitchell · 6 Jun 2006, 13:49 (Ref:1628528)

Saturday - Nothing!
Sunday - Nothing

Bugger.......forgot to mention I have a 12-hr works shift from 2pm saturday!

Pistonbroke · 6 Jun 2006, 13:53 (Ref:1628530)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gordon Knight

VSCC at Oulton Park including some "real" F1 cars from HGPCA
Really looking forward to it.

Me too! Then Loton Park on Sunday for a round of British HillClimb Championship.

archaic gold · 6 Jun 2006, 14:32 (Ref:1628547)

There you go Guys( and Ladies!); there is still a full life despite the British GP, whatever Bernie may think!!!!

racerkeke · 6 Jun 2006, 14:50 (Ref:1628557)

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

KayBee · 6 Jun 2006, 14:53 (Ref:1628560)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Gordon Knight

VSCC at Oulton Park including some "real" F1 cars from HGPCA
Really looking forward to it.

Hey Gordon we'll be there as well and I'm looking forward to seeing that one that looked like a steam train engine (you were drooling over it) and the litttle tiny ones that looked like boats.

Mark Mitchell · 6 Jun 2006, 14:56 (Ref:1628561)

Quote:

Originally Posted by KayBee

....and the litttle tiny ones that looked like boats.

They were boats!
You were at lakeside!!

JimW · 6 Jun 2006, 15:23 (Ref:1628571)

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

Chris Roden · 6 Jun 2006, 15:39 (Ref:1628578)

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.

Matthews Dad · 6 Jun 2006, 15:57 (Ref:1628594)

Anglesey for the two days of the Chester MC sprint meeting, sun sea and good cars hopefully a great weekend

Anyone else out there coming to join us?

Matt Dillon · 6 Jun 2006, 16:39 (Ref:1628627)

I'll be at Oulton on Midland Hills Rescue Unit. Looks like it could be a good day

Andy Johns · 6 Jun 2006, 16:44 (Ref:1628631)

Teaching under 17's to drive round the Thruxton paddock!!! Am I mad or what...........

**Woolley** · 6 Jun 2006, 18:42 (Ref:1628704)

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!

spottymarshal · 6 Jun 2006, 20:36 (Ref:1628784)

I'll be at Snetterton marshalling a bike meeting.

Clive · 6 Jun 2006, 20:38 (Ref:1628786)

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.

flags · 6 Jun 2006, 21:03 (Ref:1628805)

nice'ly put clive..lets hope the replies are gentlemanly too.

Marshal · 6 Jun 2006, 21:19 (Ref:1628820)

I've managed to arrnge a business meeting with Red Bull Racing in Northamptonshire on the Friday

, then I'll be enjoying the flying display at work's Families day on the Saturday. Might watch some footy too.

alan-g · 6 Jun 2006, 22:10 (Ref:1628860)

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.

bacon sandwich · 6 Jun 2006, 22:33 (Ref:1628870)

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!!

**Woolley** · 6 Jun 2006, 23:08 (Ref:1628889)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Clive

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.

As always, I have absolutely no problem with anyone who makes a different choice from me, and I hope that you will all have a truly wonderful time. I wouldn't dream of rubbishing or demeaning any of those who attend, and who I know will once more show British marshalling to be of the highest standard should they be called upon to perform.

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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