Walshy day at Crail raceway?

foz · Post by **foz** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:35 am

North Weald's not far! down last week (again). Incorporate it into an east anglian trip and visit the factory LHartgrove@lotuscars.co.uk

Post by **Shug** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:42 am

andybman wrote:
just that its a shame we dont have any resources closer that are as dependable and good as southerners get?

Backtracking a wee bit - it's a fair point, but it's simple economics. There are fewer cars & drivers up here, so it's not economically viable. When Walshy used to come up, he'd be booked solid, but you'd never keep that sort of interest the year round and make a viable business from it.

mckeann · Post by **mckeann** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:09 pm

John Reid wrote:Walshy is meant to be comming up to scotland before the FF6. So if he's here anyway. And a venue is available and we can get the numbers.

he's coming up for a holiday, so i wouldnt be so sure that he wants to work.

tut · Post by **tut** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:23 pm

The old timers will remember when we used to pay £15 for Crail.

Our S_E1 photo on Yahoo used to be a pic of us all lined up in front of our Motorhome which Verian drove down to provide coffee and bacon butties.

tut

tut · Post by **tut** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 12:26 pm

I have pictures of Ian Forrest and Ricky Gauld racing their Imps/Davrians at Ingleston inthe 50's.

tut

Lawrence · Post by **Lawrence** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 9:57 pm

tut wrote:I have pictures of Ian Forrest and Ricky Gauld racing their Imps/Davrians at Ingleston inthe 50's.

tut

I just had to quote that so you can't edit it tut

ExigeKen · Post by **ExigeKen** » Sat Jul 21, 2007 10:06 pm

Lawrence wrote:
tut wrote:I have pictures of Ian Forrest and Ricky Gauld racing their Imps/Davrians at Ingleston inthe 50's.

tut

I just had to quote that so you can't edit it tut

so cruel Lawrence

gorrie · Post by **gorrie** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:45 am

FWIW... I received an email back from Vanessa @ Car Limits intimating the only reason they don't do one up here anymore is because of the council/Crail 28 day per year issue.

She reckons that if us lot can think of an alterative venue up here, then they would consider doing dates for 2008:-
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"I'm very sorry, but at the moment Crail is restricted by the council to only operate less than twenty eight days a year. Due to this, the organisers only want to put on the large revenue events, such as the Crail Thrash. This means that it is far too expensive for us and our customers to operate out of Crail, hence why the Scottish groups are making the pilgrimage down to us at North Weald.

We currently have North Weald booked for the rest of the year, however if you know of any suitable locations in Scotland then we could arrange training there for 2008.

If you are worried about the length of the time/wear and tear during the journey down, then we do hire out our Lotus Elise for the course and Stansted Airport is not far from us.

Sorry there was no quick answer of "yes, we operate out of Crail!"
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Andy.

jamie · Post by **jamie** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 10:50 am

Think we could rent a floor of a NCP car park for the day

skellyjohn · Post by **skellyjohn** » Tue Jul 24, 2007 12:09 pm

Is it possible to hire Aberdeen Exhibition Centre car park?
It's HUGE!