Few comments to make and stuff to tidy up, without further ado:
DID YOU PAY?
We know everyone that was on track was paid up, but as we had people arriving from 3pm - 12am on Friday and all day on Saturday it was impossible to man the gate so we think there may have been a few people that got fed/camped without chucking into the pot.
If you camped then it was £30, if you just ate then we would appreciate a donation of at least £10 as well - SXOC lost money on this event as track numbers werent as high as we had expected so please dig in if you need to.
MANY THANKS!
Cheers to everyone that had some input this year - first and foremost Kieran was once again man of the match, getting the venue confirmed, negotiating discounts and reducing prices right up to Saturday night and generally holding it all down. I know he had an absolutely mare at work for the last two weeks as well, legend status @ that man.
And in no particular order - Jon for an excellent quiz, Random Tim for firewood, my beautiful wife for helping cook the curry and general tidying, Def for tidying and amazing contribution to the raffle, Kev for musicman duties, anyone who stepped up and cooked/cleaned when it was needed - Cornwall and Byebye Im looking at you two - the family Falco for driving the van there (someone has to do it!), Rarerims and Ben specifically for their raffle input, Ste and Gwen for the merch and general running about, Fake Ben and Giblets for being good sports, all the photographers for some amazing shots, everyone who helped set up and clear down and everyone else for not setting fire to themselves, contracting tropical diseases, infringing national security, perpetrating acts of terrorism or any other carry on that would have meant I had to do anything other than drink
OTHER STUFF
It was great, it was brilliant to see the old SXOC spirit in full effect and the trackday wasnt at all bad either. I believe we didnt lose anyone to crash damage and only a couple to engine issues and although there were drinking casualties nothing that a bacon sandwich and a cup of char couldnt fix.
Rockingham is a world class venue with some really nice trackday touches and will definitely be on the list for next time round - one thing I partiularly liked was how many people actually made a point of telling me how polite everyone was on track, SXOC trackdays are as good for total n00bs as it is for knackered old hands like myself. We will be investigating the two black flag incidents but Im sure no further action will be taken
Regardless of all of these words we cant do it without you, so tell all of your friends to book time off for this next year and lets do it even bigger and better next time round