Well done to all involved with the Hutton Kitchens Brands Hatch Summer Stages - the feedback I'm getting (from marshals, spectators, competitors, media etc) is all really positive so thanks to everyone involved.
Tue, 28/08/2012 - 10:27
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BRANDS THANKS
Well done and thank you to all evolved with brands it was a great event run extremely well with a great atmosphere and our first trophy for 3rd in class to boot as well
Many many thanks to all the marshals, radio crews, and officials who made yesterday's rally a great success.
Matt Endean
Chief Marshal
Hutton Kitchens Brands Hatch Summer Stages
thanks to all involved with the running of the Brands Hatch Stages yesterday, a bit of a change from the bloody cold weather in January. From an spectator point of view it was great to watch despite all the stuff of the Paralympics...
well done to officials and marshals and all competitors that finished and conmiserations to those that didn't (quite a few!).
It was great to catch up with some CMC crews,
Here are some videos of CMC cars in action at the end of SS3 on the rally stage section, it was great to have it open again! i'm impressed with the video quality of my new Nokia :-)
Car 26. T.Michael/P. Barrett http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d77q1e1crzE&feature=plcp
Cars 45 and 48. E. Scott/ R. Baker and R.Dillon/L. Pope http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XE3epURuUq4&feature=channel&list=UL
Car 50. The Dawsons http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XBinXIslGc&feature=BFa&list=ULXE3epURuUq4
The clicking sound is from Sofia's camera, I've uploaded a few to a Facebook album and left it available to the public. That's all we could get with our 200mm lens. If you want a higher resolution copy let me know.
FB link here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152072877400112.895448.73363...
The Brands Hatch events gets better every time, and as event sponsor, I was very proud to be associated with the Summer Stages. Thankyou to everyone in the team and associated with the event, it was once again a slick running of a Stage Rally.
I probably didn't have as good an event as we had planned, lack of concentration for a moment resulting in a coming together with a rather solid post. No actual mechanical damage, but it didn't look quite the same from stage 2 onwards. We also had a problem on stage 4, resulting in a Stage Maximum, but no mechanical issues for a change....
My only regret was not getting round to talk to everyone, so many friends who I wanted to talk to, but where did the day go. Apologies to everyone for not coming to say hello, maybe it would have been easier if I hadn't bashed the car up.
Congratulations to all the award winners, and what great weather for a Bank Holiday.
Many many thanks from all at Hutton Kitchens
thanks to the sponsors first off and to all involed. good day shame to retire on stage 5 with lower arm failure. and shame pin to hub was wrong size on spare arm