2020 - 2021 Great Western Sprint
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n Monday 23rd March 2020 Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the first UK national lockdown. The impact we felt as a club was immediate because on Saturday 28th March, we were due to hold our Great Western Sprint. Still with a brand-new online membership and events system and just 90+ competitors to refund, what could possibly go wrong.
importantly, after another false start in March of this year, the event finally taking place on Saturday 23rd October. Thank goodness for that, we were beginning to run out of corrective engraving options on the awards we bought 18months previously. 2020 2021.
This year’s event looked potentially challenging, late in the year and still a round of the British Sprint Championship that Stephen Miles had secured at the previous round. Congrats to him. Stephen explaining that on a personal level, the only reason he is allowed to Let’s not go there again, some are still only just out of therapy, but suffice to say partake, is the promise to his wife of one day attending the annual Motorsport UK that after much manual intervention black tie awards ceremony. An everyone was refunded and more opportunity to rub shoulders with the great and the good. Let’s hope Mrs Miles enjoys this year’s event enough for Stephen to return in 2022. Our thoughts and prayers are with you Steve, could go either way. Autumn running would mean the weather was going to be key and despite a showery week leading up to the event, the day itself thankfully stayed dry. There were also a few late withdrawals, which is a bit of a current and slightly annoying trend. That meant all reserves ran and after a prompt 9.00am start, practise was done and dusted before 10.30am. Incredibly, before we broke for lunch not only did all classes get there first timed run in, classes A1 to C4 also got (PTO) 8
