Trax 2009

[MX6 addict]

Both meets this year have worked due to the enthusiasm of the members. It would be nice to keep up this momentum by trying to get a few more members to turn up at next year’s meets.

Me and Julie will be going to the A1GP at Brands in early May (usually over the bank holiday if it's on), that’s a great weekend of racing.

The first on the cards as a club will be Japfest, that is usually around the second or third weekend of May. It’s at Castle Combe near Chipenham. We stay over on the Friday night to meet up with Elmer who travels all the way from Scotland for this meet. Some this year camped which is always good for a laugh.

The OC organise a trip to the Nurburgring. Next year they are looking at early to mid July, you can find more info on their forum.

Then Trax around September.

So if you are interested pencil these dates in.

Mark

[MazdaRob]

Japfest is a possible, will stay over for that one if we go. Trax is a definite, and we'll be staying over. Nurburgring, I doubt it, not unless we get some serious time off!

Rob

[Paula]

Hi Guys,

Watching the Italian GP and thank the Lord that we still have proper Race Cicuits like Monza, Spa etc....Awesome ....

Silverstone was better pre 1973 before Woodcote was emasculated.

See:

Silverstone Circuit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And what about this on their Traffic Management:

Hollow joke eh?

Spectator traffic management

Historically Silverstone has suffered traffic jams on race days. This problem has been largely eliminated with the completion of the A43 Silverstone bypass, a dual-carriageway road just to the north of the circuit. When the race was moved to an April date in 2000, rainy conditions turned the fields used for car parking into mud baths, causing chaos for spectators trying to park On F1 race day a large number of spectators travel to the circuit by helicopter: enough to make Silverstone Heliport the busiest airport in the UK for this day.

The Events Planning Officer and I had a laugh about this the other day ....

Paula

Originally Posted by Paula

Morning everyone,

We are on a mission now, for sure.

Just had a call from the Events Planning Officer at Northampton Police Station.

He is taking this right to the top with Silverstone Circuit ( He agreed with me that they are ultimately responsible and with all the millions that they have spent on the A43 road improvements for the F1 GP, this was outrageous on Sunday ).

He will also be talking to Trax, the Highways Agency and his superiors in the Police.

Let's hope that next year the problem is solved and again he agreed with me that the gates should have been open much earlier so that people could drive in with ease as they arrived.

Paula