MSVR Season Starter - Green Light for Comic Relief!

[Piglet]

Sorry, I don't know how to link to a pdf so I've pasted the text (I can mail it to someone to post)

Well who's up for it? Sadly I will be moving house that weekend otherwise I'm sure I'd go for it

GREEN light for Red Nose!
MSVR Season Starter to include Comic Relief fundraiser race
The MSVR ‘Season Starter’ race meeting at Brands Hatch on March 15 will now include a special additional charity event.
As well as the opening round of the GAZ Shocks Production BMW Championship, Toyo Tires Racing Saloons, Cannon’s Tin Tops & Intermarque, MSVR has added a one-off event: the 2009 ‘Red Nose Challenge’.
Sponsored by MSAR Safety - www.msar-safety.com – and organised by Project 8 Racing, competitors, officials and marshals will compete over a single lap of the famous Brands Hatch Indy circuit on foot.
All finishers will be entered into a prize draw with the winner receiving a HANS device* generously donated by MSAR.
The entry fee is £10 and all proceeds will go to Comic Relief.
In celebration of the fundraising event, all cars competing in the GAZ Shocks Production BMW Championship and Toyo Tires Racing Saloons events will sport a red nose.
MSVR Race Operations Manager, David Scott, said “We are delighted to give our support to this additional event which is the brainchild of P8R’s John Willcocks - it should be a lot of fun”!

MSVR contact: Gemma Mole

[Guinness2702]

Originally Posted by Piglet

officials and marshals will compete over a single lap of the famous Brands Hatch Indy circuit on foot.

If I wasn't at snet, I think i'd pay £10 just to see that!

[Oscar114]

Well done for someone coming up with a good idea.
Unfortunately I'm at the wrong end of the country to take part.

[White flag man]

I was thinking the same,
watching marshals go from the bottom of paddock hill bend to Druids,
Now that would be funny

[Miss Pebbles]

If I was there, that's not something I'd be doing!!! The day's racing would have to be postponed to give me time to get round
I would pay to watch however!

[Piglet]

Miss P, I think you're on to a good idea, perhaps people should be asked to pay NOT to have to do it

(says the woman who will be safely at the other end of the country )

[jaysalv]

count me in for that

[Bodysnatcher]

a ha
a ha hah
ahahahaha

Take that as a no, not even if you paid me the tenner!

Wild guess now... will this be during lunch break? Standdown on post if not competing...(Joking folks, no need for an email)
50 minutes would be barely enough time for me to stroll round. Have you seen the height of that damn hill after 4a?


However, I do remember one of the younger uns mentioning something in a post that pre and post race day jogging should be part of marshalling.


off to do some e-chaelogy now...

Yessss Staid Davenport, you are the one...... said this recently..my bolding and underlining..

Originally Posted by staid davenport

Fitness! I think experienced marshalls could also concentrate on improving their general health and fitness whilst on duty. So many marshalls stand around all day eating pork pies (!!!). Maybe you should all go for a quick jog around the track at the start and end of the day (I've run round silverstone a few times its really not that far!)- it would be great for your health and also you'd be able to jump out of the way quickier when the aforementioned pork pie attracts a renegade f.renault to your post at 100+mph!

My money is on this boy to win then. If he can run round Silverstone (note he's no saying which layout) then Brands Indy like Dwain the druggie will be a piece o' piddle.

[Piglet]

Originally Posted by Bodysnatcher

a ha
Have you seen the height of that damn hill after 4a?

Never mind that....I find the walk from the pit lane to the Kentagon hard going these days so I can't tell you how glad I am that I will be elsewhere

[Marky]

Good idea.... for other people to do but i would pay £10 to watch jim (Jaysal) run up the hill to Druids. and roll down the other side!!!!

Mark

[bdwoody]

[quote=Marky;2411231]Good idea.... for other people to do but i would pay £10 to watch jim (Jaysal) run up the hill to Druids. and roll down the other side!!!!
quote]


me too , i wasn't going but if jim is gonna run round brands it might be worth the trip ..hehe

[m1fcf]

Originally Posted by Marky

Good idea.... for other people to do but i would pay £10 to watch jim (Jaysal) run up the hill to Druids. and roll down the other side!!!!

Mark

Well, I think at least £15 would go to charity if anyone can get Marky running round the track...

By the sounds of it, he would be able to keep jaysalv company at the back of the pack!

Morning Mark!!

[Marky]

Originally Posted by m1fcf

Well, I think at least £15 would go to charity if anyone can get Marky running round the track...

By the sounds of it, he would be able to keep jaysalv company at the back of the pack!

Morning Mark!!

Morning David

not me way to far lol

Mark

[jaysalv]

cheers for that woody although i may look a little chubby round the edges i will give it a go lol and i will even pay for mark to do it with me hehe . david do yhou think mark could do it ?

[Marky]

i think if woody is going on sunday he should do it as well what you reckon jim.
and no i cant do it with my back, but i can happly watch haha

[jaysalv]

im sure woody would do it just dangle a pack of fags and some jaffa cakes in front of him . and bad back mark are you kidding me are you falling apart

[Marky]

Originally Posted by jaysalv

im sure woody would do it just dangle a pack of fags and some jaffa cakes in front of him

HAHA

its a semi slipped disc aparantly

[Hepatic]

i hope thats on the indy circuit, you find people hiding in the woods half way around having a crafty fag a la school cross country if you're not careful

[Guinness2702]

Originally Posted by Hepatic

i hope thats on the indy circuit, you find people hiding in the woods half way around having a crafty fag a la school cross country if you're not careful

You think that far? I'd be doing that by the pit lane exit!

[Nighthawk]

Think i could do this......just!!!

[adstubbs]

First I've heard of this, and I'm already down to be at at Brands on Sunday (1st meeting of 2009 - the wait is over!). Might slip a pair of trainers into the bag in case I feel brave/stipid enough to give this a go, an entire lap of the Indy circuit in safety boots would not be clever!

[Piglet]

I'm not sure how it's being advertised, I think it's been put together at short notice so it may only be advertised at the circuit and locally (if it's open to the rest of the area as the Sport Relief mile thingie at Snet was before)

So go prepared if you want to have a go and perhaps forewarn anyone else who is going to take suitable shoes if they fancy having a go.

Well done to all who are going to participate

[TwoSheds]

What I want to know is, are the Rescue Crew and Doctors doing the run or will they be strategically placed around the circuit ready to come to the aid of those like me who will probably "crash" before completing the distance?

[johnw]

Fear not my orange friends. This is not a race but a gentle stroll around the rolling hills of Kent in aid of a great cause.All finishers will be entered in the draw. If you don't need or want the HANS device you can opt for an attractive cash alternative and the HANS will be auctioned at the finish line.
Advice will be available to the unfit, infirm and obese and to marshals.

Regs for the event will be available at sign-on. I hope that you can encourage as many people as possible to join in.
See you on Sunday in whatever capacity.
John #100 in TTRS

[Eddy V]

A gentle stroll? Like actually moving, one foot after another? The things you have to do nowadays to marshal, dear oh dear.
That will never work for me, so am I allowed to use my wheelchair (but only downhill from Druids)?