Lotus Festival - 18-19 August 2012 - Brands Hatch (GP)

[deley]

see folks there

http://www.lotus-festival.com/wp-con...-ISSUE-ONE.pdf

Dave

[Bodysnatcher]

I'll be there, usual place I assume.
That's a full timetable (not a bad thing) , just what I need after the best part of a month away, lets hope for no recoveries between sessions 28 & 30.

[Steve Fox]

Loti? No thanks, These parades should be held during the lunch break.

[deley]

timetable issue 2

http://www.msvracing.co.uk/media/117..._issue_two.pdf

Dave

[yesnomaybe]

the timetable is likely to be updated a few more times before the event

im racing number 56 (a red bmw e30 320) is p8rs and pbmw,

a huge thanks in advance for marshalling the event, wouldnt be possible without you guys and gals, cheers!

[Bodysnatcher]

<scribbles 56 in his little black book>

perhaps we'll get to walk the raised/not raised green bit at the bottom of Paddock Hill Bend.
y/n/?

[yesnomaybe]

oh bugger! lol,
*rushes off to price up respray and number change*

im sure you're right, e.g. not raised, can still use a lot of it as the regs stand this year though

just had a read of the final instructions.. we wont be doing a full cool down lap which is a shame as you dont get to wave your appreciation to the marshals on the gp loop, guess it is a packed timetable!

[haystacks]

See you all there, hope my palacial apartment is free that weekend. LOL

[Eljay]

First trip back to Brands after amonth or so away so lookign forward to a couple of days on the bank. Just got my shiny new BMMC green badge and MSA licence following my upgrade so first "non traniee" meeting too. MSA turned my upgrade paperwork round in under 5 days, very impressed!

[Stephen Green]

See you chaps over the course of the weekend, I'm there from Thursday morning onwards.

[Tim Neill]

I'm camping at Brands Hatch for the first time this weekend, arriving very early Saturday morning to set up.

Where exactly is the camp site and how do I enter it from the Main gate at 6.30am? I want to park in the camp site, not in the triangle.

Thanks.

[Tim Neill]

Ooops - just found the other camping threads with all the info I need.

[McSatan]

Originally Posted by Eljay

First trip back to Brands after amonth or so away so lookign forward to a couple of days on the bank. Just got my shiny new BMMC green badge and MSA licence following my upgrade so first "non traniee" meeting too. MSA turned my upgrade paperwork round in under 5 days, very impressed!

That's good to hear, doing the 2nd part of my assessment/upgrade on Saturday at Brands (done the flag bit) and was hearing horror stories about how MSA take months, they'll lose your card etc etc.

[Bodysnatcher]

Originally Posted by McSatan

That's good to hear, doing the 2nd part of my assessment/upgrade on Saturday at Brands (done the flag bit) and was hearing horror stories about how MSA take months, they'll lose your card etc etc.

Hmm, since I've got a trainee on the 2nd part of his uprgade on Saturday

<scribbles McSatan underneath 56 in the little black book>

As your sig states - you'll get hee haw - if hee haw happens or you hingeth aboot - for a bunch of old blokes the regular crew are fast off the mark when an incident happens.

[McSatan]

Cheers Bodysnatcher! A very enjoyable if spectacularly busy day (22 chalk marks on the Armco!) On post 4A. Nice to meet no. 56 as well, and sling his car up to get towed out of the deep gravel

[Bodysnatcher]

Just as well the upgrade asssesment was not Sunday.
In the words of our vernacular - hee haw happened.
Catch up with you next month Satan

[McSatan]

Originally Posted by Bodysnatcher

Just as well the upgrade asssesment was not Sunday.
In the words of our vernacular - hee haw happened.
Catch up with you next month Satan

I think it might have been fate. A couple of orange vultures called 'Bodysnatcher' and 'McSatan' stooging about at the bottom of Paddock Hill was sort of asking for it really. Cheers for the 'Ice Cold in Alex' beer moment on Saturday.

[deley]

Thanks to the team on P9 over the weekend for a good couple of days and "well done" to the two Taster Day marshals on Sunday (Fay and Dave) for getting stuck in so quickly and helping out with everything including getting the cars off end of session.


See folks soon

Dave

[Eljay]

A quiet weekend on P19, but as always good company and a lot of laughs. Shame the GT Cup field was so small, but I think every compititor scored points and a podiums as a result! See everyone at the MSVR GP weekend in Spetember.

[kimbo]

Originally Posted by deley

Thanks to the team on P9 over the weekend for a good couple of days and "well done" to the two Taster Day marshals on Sunday (Fay and Dave) for getting stuck in so quickly and helping out with everything including getting the cars off end of session.


See folks soon

Dave

Absolute pleasure working with you Dave and the rest of the crew. Particular thanks to you for letting me pretend to flag for the weekend!!
See you all again soon - all being Chris, Dave, Dave (that could be confusing) and Fay - and yes well done to our 'newbies', hope we haven't put you off too badly.

Kim

[mikenunn-78]

P19 was definitely laugh a minute! The shade was good too )

[yesnomaybe]

Originally Posted by McSatan

Cheers Bodysnatcher! A very enjoyable if spectacularly busy day (22 chalk marks on the Armco!) On post 4A. Nice to meet no. 56 as well, and sling his car up to get towed out of the deep gravel

nice to meet you guys too , circumstances could have been better, was just happy to have avoided the spinning cars, i really had no choice but to steer it into the gravel, as the two spinning cars where completley across my path, as this pic shows http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb...type=1&theater

Originally Posted by Bodysnatcher

perhaps we'll get to walk the raised/not raised green bit at the bottom of Paddock Hill Bend.
y/n/?

ironically we had the ideal opportunity to do this, but i didnt really want to get out the car as it takes me an age to get belted in properly etc

i was sporadically waving appreciation to the marshals on the gp loop over the course of the weekend, since we wouldnt get a chance after the chequered flag fell, big thanks again

heres some of my incar video

PBMWC Qualifying - Brands Hatch GP - Spin at 90mph - 180812
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO3XnkNtSx0

P8RS - Race 1 - Brands Hatch GP - 180812
a nice little segment of the race showing two passes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrK-bzu8Sig

P8RS - Race 1 - Brands Hatch GP - 180812
another nice little segment showing a pass and some attacking driving on the gp loop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hCVorhGt18

cheers

[Austinspace75]

On behalf of all the Production BMW and Project 8 Racing Saloons drivers, I just wanted to say thanks to all the Marshals and Officials who attended this meeting. It can't have been an easy couple of day's work in that heat and humidity.

It was hot in the cars I can tell you, but at least we got a break after 20mins and could collapse in the shade to cool off. Not so for you guys I would imagine, so I take my (sweaty) hat of to you all.

Thankyou.

[yesnomaybe]

better late than never, here's my pics from the festival, I managed to take these in between the 6 sessions that I was on track,

there's a good one of the start line marshals having fun with a grid girl!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coletri...7631179931412/