CSCC, Silverstone August 1st

[adstubbs]

Anyone had tickets through for this yet?

[roys1]

Originally Posted by adstubbs

Anyone had tickets through for this yet?

I believe passes are being sent soon.. you should have them by wed/thurs..
See you there..
Roy

[Joyce George]

Will be there with Brian (Blue Jag no 3). Coffee/tea available if you want to drop by & say hello in the paddock.

[andy97]

Folks

The entry lists are looking good - Swinging Sixties has a full grid with something like 10 reserves (they will all get to race with the Future Classics anyway); Tin Tops has 35 entered (the best entry yet) and the Sports Vs Saloon race has 35 also. Should be a good meeting.

[brickkicker]

Just had tickets through this morning, the entry list is massive to say the least.

[brickkicker]

Just had a quick look at the entry and it stacks up like this
Swinging sixties - 53 entries
Mono's 1000/1400/1800 - 30 entries
Jags - 33 entries
Tin tops - 33 entries
Future classics (with Magnificent sevens) - 45 entries
Mono's 2000/classic 2000/formula 2000/ mono 1600- 28
Sports v Saloon's - 34

[Gerryc]

Good grids, nice cars......... I will be there as long as the tickets have arrived (or even if they haven't).

Gerry

[andy97]

A great shame that the weather was so poor. Thanks folks for all your efforts, it must have been fairly miserable & I think that collectively we kept you pretty busy as the track was very slippery. Sorry! I enjoyed my racing but retired from the Sports Vs saloon race as I just thought that discretion was the better part of valour, with standing water on the back staright and spray so bad that I could'nt see even the high vis lights of the cars in front.

Andy (Tin Tops Toyota carina #48)

[Woolley]

Disappointed to have had to miss this, despite the weather. My wife has strained a back muscle (I told her gym wasn't healthy) and so needed stuff doing for her.

[sideways steve]

thank you boys and girls, it was great to see you looking so cheerful despite the weather's best efforts to drown us all. I have bought the kids a suzuki jeep for green laning and I think I would have been quicker in that than the big Green Jag!!!

[HairyDJ]

Well I enjoyed myself down at Becketts inside despite the wet - certainly preferred to be standing in it than driving! One or two surprise visitors to the grass and gravel in our vicinity, but most of you were kind enough to keep Jason & co busy on the outside

Quite amazing how certain cars seemed to cope fantastically well, whilst others were clearly much less settled with that much water to float along on.

Thanks to those who waved back to us - presumably those who didn't were too busy hanging onto the wheel (or maybe looking at flag points instead of us .....)

[DaveGT6]

Thanks guys and girls in orange. I would love to have waved but taking a hand off the steering wheel wasn't an option in that rain!

[ChrisA]

Originally Posted by DaveGT6

Thanks guys and girls in orange. I would love to have waved but taking a hand off the steering wheel wasn't an option in that rain!

Don't blame you! Yes, we did get rather damp, but it was worth it for the racing. In those conditions, everyone deserved a trophy!

[thefilbertfox]

Thanks to the peeps on Pedestiran Bridge for shouting at the people on the pit wall to get off before the start of each race. Really helped with there only being 2 off us.

Looked to be some good racing going on despite the weather.

[LAK]

From Louise Kennedy and Graham Hall no 55 Lancia Beta Coupe (Future Classics) and Jason Kennedy no 33 TVR Griffith (Swinging Sixties):

A massive thanks to all of the boys and girls in orange and all the officials. It was an incredibly difficult day weather wise for everyone and I did feel for you all as I did my warm down lap in the Beta. I tried to wave but kept getting my hand caught in the barely open window! Without you guys being there to help us there would be no racing. Thank you.

There were lots of spins and offs but amazingly no safety cars in the two 40 mins races I saw/was involved in. An amazing achievement as the track conditions were so difficult - greasy one lap, then oily and greasy, then a bit drier and then monsoon conditions near the end of the FC race. Not sure I've ever wheel spun our lowly powered Beta in the wet in all gears before!

Thank you all again.

[tristancliffe]

Many thanks to all those marshalling around Silverstone, particularly in the afternoon when the weather went from bad to worse. I was in the penultimate race that day, but I don't think I gave you too much work (for once!). And thanks to your enthusiastic flag waving I was even able to see some of the yellows through the spray - rare in those conditions.

It probably counts for very little, but I waved and clapped at every post I could see on my way back to the pits. I can't offer much more myself (though I think the Monoposto club do something involving free fleeces - but don't quote me on that).

If you were in charge of the Brooklands gravel trap in the morning (well, about 11:50) then apologies for making it look untidy during my brief visit.

All joking aside, thanks and well done for keeping a difficult weathered meeting going so smoothly, despite the best efforts of the drivers!

[HairyDJ]

Great to see so many drivers popping into a marshals' thread and saying thanks - any marshals who feel unappreciated at times should make a note of CSCC and make an extra effort to get along to their events!

[adstubbs]

[QUOTE=tristancliffe;2515556] I can't offer much more myself (though I think the Monoposto club do something involving free fleeces - but don't quote me on that).QUOTE]

They certainly do, cos I won one on Saturday, and very nice it is too. Apart from the weather, a good day, although my flagging arm ached a bit come Monday - Beckett's was a bit busy. I will admit here that the second yellow flag in the bundle came in very handy, not only for covering one of the recoveries at Beckett's but also as a replacement for the one I dropped off the flagpoint while trying to switch hands! Note to self - need grippier gloves!

[andy97]

Originally Posted by HairyDJ

Great to see so many drivers popping into a marshals' thread and saying thanks - any marshals who feel unappreciated at times should make a note of CSCC and make an extra effort to get along to their events!

I think the CSCC do try to make sure the Marshals are appreciated. I know that we have all had to donate Biscuits in the past (it was in the Finals!) &, more significantly, in the past we have held a draw to take 2 Marshals (free, I think) to the USA on a trip to Daytona at which the CSCC had been invited to compete.

As an aside, I have always tried to thank the Marshals that I have come across (usually when I've been in a gravel trap!) but I hadn't realised until a year or so ago that the Marshals actually wanted us to wave! I used to think that drivers waving was a bit pretentious - I didn't realise they were saying thank you! Sorry! Maybe other drivers don't.

[tristancliffe]

It could be pretentious if, say, the driver who came in 5th is waving to the crowd. But at club meetings there is, of course, no crowd to wave to pretentiously!!! Therefore all the waving must be directed to the wonderful marshals.

Interestingly I was chatting to a friend who went to watch the Grand Prix thingy in Copenhagen at the weekend with a view to doing it next year. Two things put him off the idea:

1. The lack of run-off, and the fact that 70% of the cars ended up damaged.
2. The dire standard of marshalling over there. I've heard the old story that British Marshals are the best in the world, and the more stories I hear the more it seems to be true. Sure, us adrenaline fuelled drivers massaging our egos might get cross with the Boys in Orange from time to time, but in the cold light of day there aren't many who could say they don't do a difficult job well...

They deserve far more than biscuits, fleeces and the odd wave from a driver if you ask me...


Edit: If waving doesn't feel right, stick your thumb in the air, and show it at every marshals post you can. I sometimes even applaud them, but twice now I've ended up with two wheels on the dirt because I wasn't paying enough attention!

[Woolley]

LOL. Going off into the gravel on the slow down lap of the last race of the day is not the best way of making us lifelong friends.

In the end, marshals and drivers need each other. We appreciate what you do, and you appreciate us in return. Our needs are differenct (you want maximum money's worth, lots of time on track and minimum breaks and we want toilet stops and lunch) but in the end us and you are what club racing is about. That's why I'm disappointed I had to miss this one.

[HairyDJ]

Originally Posted by adstubbs

They certainly do, cos I won one on Saturday, and very nice it is too.

Jammy sod - shame that the club didn't make more publicity about the draw / freebies, as i certainly didn't realise that the drivers had been so generous. Given some of the less smiley faces in another thread, it seems worth making sure we all know these sort of positives?

[PieMan]

Originally Posted by HairyDJ

smiley faces

That reminds me, 'thefilbertfox' won second prize - a packet of jammy dodgers!

That was all for the raffle because there had been something for everybody at signing on (thanks to the CSCC).

As a past winner of a Monoposto Club fleece (a good few years ago but it's wearing well) I have to agree that it's very kind of them to continue to donate one every time.

[thefilbertfox]

Originally Posted by PieMan

That reminds me, 'thefilbertfox' won second prize - a packet of jammy dodgers!