Safety Fast! Notes for January 2007

The Annual Dinner and Presentation of Awards will take place at the Limpley Stoke Hotel on Saturday 10th March 2007 at 7.30pm. Fuller details are available on the website or direct from John Bird on 0117 956 0175. Members and guests who wish to stay overnight should contact the Hotel directly on 01225 723333 to reserve a room. Rates including full English breakfast are £65 for a double/twin and £44.50 for a single. When making a booking please mention that you are attending the Dinner.

 As I write, John Delafield is busily confirming the SW calendar of events for 2007. A programme card will be included in the March issue of Safety Fast! for SW members. For those of you in the rest of the world, and for SW members who cannot wait, then I will publish basic details of all of the events in the Notes next month.

 I am able to publicise one event – probably the first of the season – as I am the ‘lucky’ organiser! Dave Coppock and the Cheddar Valley Navigational Scatter are taking a sabbatical to be replaced by the South Gloucs Navigational Scatter. I’ve been volunteered to organise the event on the basis of that nobody else can get close to the Lock/Cooke crew at Cheddar; okay, so we used a Vauxhall Vectra on one occasion, Richard and Anthony pipped us to the post on another occasion by virtue of their sixteen valves and SatNav, and the Owsts scraped a tie in last year’s event - but four out of five is not at all bad… Anyway, that’s enough bragging!!! The South Gloucs Navigational Scatter will take place on Sunday 24th March starting and finishing somewhere in the neighourhood of Wotton-under-Edge. In addition to the normal classes following the normal format, there will be a special ‘novice’ category whereby – for the price of a new map – I will plot the points for you in advance (but I’ll need at least two weeks notice). Anybody can enter the novice classes (there will be two, for old cars and new cars split at an arbitrary date that I will decide on the day depending on entries) but they are intended for those of you who would like a gentler morning of motorsport and is particularly suited to husband and wife crews…

 After three and a half years on the throne, I am taking a well-earned break to soup-up the GT so next month will be my last Notes for a while. The SW committee has stepped up to the plate and will be taking turns at the Notes for the foreseeable future. As next month will be chock-a-block with calendar details, I’ll fill the remaining space this month with something to remember me by - a picture taken from the Chew Valley Gymkhana in August 2006. If you were there then you’ll understand the body language…!

 Neil

 

neil@port-z.fsnet.co.uk
01275 817915 (before 9pm please)
SW Centre website: www.mg-cars.org.uk/mgccsw