Brands Truck Meeting

[Rod Birley]

Just a quick thanks to all marshals and officials. Busy weekend lots of incidents, meant you did not get proper lunch breaks, but hope the racing made up for it. Plus it was a lot drier than last year. Really enjoyed my races with Greg, and your appreciation was well received by both of us. Good to see Bob Whiting on 24. The wins were for your Mum.

[archaic gold]

Thanks Rod, from all of us! Another entertaining race, and as I was at Paddock (Post 3 ); glad you went past in your inimitable manner each time. The whole Meeting was great, and, hell, what is a lunch hour when you can sun bathe in November!!!!

[Stephen Green]

Cheers Rod. Some excellent racing in all categories and the sunshine helped to take my mind off the cold. Two great races with you and Greg, I could see you had the boost turned up from the flame back from the exhaust

[Bryan Degerlund]

I echo all the above, good grids, well manned posts, pre-gridding of the Legends/Pickups for their rolling starts saved us some work. Special thanks to all the FRenault teams for their co-operation whilst being formed up in the pitlane.

Overall what racing should be all about!!

[Kermit Power]

Watching the two of you in your last race yesterday screaming up the hill to Druids inches apart lap after lap, along with the guy in the green Midget who seemed to be absolutely flying through the field from the back of the grid in the same race were definitely major highlights for me!

If only all races were that close, clean and exciting! I can't wait for more next season

[adstubbs]

Had a great day yesterday on Post 6, some of the racing was among the best I've seen all year (Legends and Pickups particularly). Watching the trucks on the run up to and out of Druids was spectacular - only one (young) spectator asked why we were't standing where we had been for the other races. "We're crazy, but not that crazy" was the most obvious answer! Nice to see such a big crowd there too, does anyone know what the final spectator count was?

[Eddy V]

Great meeting, some real good racing, bar Formula Boring on the Sunday. And no, I do not mean the Caterhams.

Trucks, great and awesome, but all that smoke!

*** COUGH ***

[White flag man]

Thanks Rod. Nice to see Greg kept you busy, though on Sunday, we on post 8 ended up busy clearing up the pieces from the guys behind you. Great variety of races, love the leg-ends, first time I've seen them. Pick-ups raced as close as ever and the lunatics in the trucks, well...... Thanks to BARC for another great weekend and thanks to all the crew on post 8.

[Kitten Kat]

Thank you to everyone on Post 1; had a great weekend as always at Brands. Looking forward to next season already!

[haystacks]

A brilliant meeting from where i was on post 6, must have been with you Piglet. Im the short fat hairy one (Dave)

[Grandslammer]

Originally Posted by haystacks

Im the short fat hairy one (Dave)

Couldn't you narrow it down a bit more

[sss]

Brands Truck Meeting

do you mean the legend and car race meeting, with a few trucks supporting the weekend!

better than last year but stills needs some working on. Hopefully the BTRA will improve things again for next year

[Broom pusher]

Thanks Kitten The Taffia enjoyed your company.

[DarrellB]

Originally Posted by sss

do you mean the legend and car race meeting, with a few trucks supporting the weekend!

better than last year but stills needs some working on. Hopefully the BTRA will improve things again for next year

Thought you'd like the legends as they have motorbike engines!

[sss]

Originally Posted by DarrellB

Thought you'd like the legends as they have motorbike engines!

i did, but the drivers are fairies as they have too much bodywork round them.

[Rod Birley]

They did a good job of trying to remove their bodywork at Paddock Bend several times!!

[Gridlock]

I too had a great weekend at post 4 and agree with ALL that has been said by all other contributers so far. However I would add one additional thankyou.
Having seen the condition of many of the cars involved in incidents, well done to the teams for getting them up and running again. The Legend teams did a great job and I certainly didnt expect to see the Clio that rolled back on the Sunday complete with windscreen.

[ascarmarshal]

I had a good meeting. My first as a marshal since August last year. I would like to thank the crew on Post 24 for making it easier for me as well as Rod and Kelly Jayne Wells. Everytime I looked into the Assembly Area I expect to see Mum contolling the drivers with her usual rod of iron. Thank you all for helping get through a tough weekend. See you at the night race at Brands

[danccooke]

Fantastic meeting, great range of cars and i can't wait for the first Legend Festival to be devised.
Thanks to all on post 5 was a cracking season closer for Dee and I.
sunday was also a good goodbye day for Dave Payne (some of you might know him) hanging up his overalls after 35 years.
Roll on March the withdrawals start here

[Eddy V]

Hi Dan, sorry I somehow managed to miss you. Looking forward to seeing you (and the gang) again next year.

[danccooke]

You'll hear us before you see us

[Eddy V]

Blimey, correct, I must have been deaf as well then.

[jonbryant]

This is photo is somewhere else on here aswell but I couldn't resist following Dan about so everyone sees it!

[danccooke]

I could come up with some great excuse..... Well no actually i can't what can i say sometimes things just need re-arranging and sometimes photographers need shooting :P
Still gotta laugh i looked like i was enjoying myself

[BSA Susie]

Originally Posted by danccooke

I could come up with some great excuse..... Well no actually i can't what can i say sometimes things just need re-arranging and sometimes photographers need shooting :P
Still gotta laugh i looked like i was enjoying myself

That has to be photo of the year!

Roll on next season.