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For marshalling please contact the following: Shenington: Pete Cox Tel: 01295 257674 / 07770 866006 Whilton Mill: Chris Cook Tel: 07939 664852 Rissington: Mike Wynell-Mayow See Rissington web page for details Pete Cox petecoxkart@hotmail.com Tel: 07770 866006 or 01295 257674 14
Swapping time cards for airwaves....! It has been a long winter for me, with only a couple of Arrival Control stints in the past few months (Rockingham and Flying Fortress Stages), so when the <strong>British</strong> Rally Championship Media Day, the Easter Stages Rally in Northern Ireland AND the Rally of North Wales were all called off due to the snow, it felt like an eternity before I was going to time keep again. But here I was, the 2013 <strong>British</strong> Rally Championship season opener was to be the Pirelli Richard Burns Foundation Rally held on the 4 th and 5 th May. I usually do the Arrival Control for one of my Stage Commanders Jon Binns, and, regular as clockwork, his email came a few weeks before the event. However, I was asked to hold off my ATC slot by the organisers of the BRC as they might have a little job for me to do. As you all know I work for Competition Car Insurance and we sponsor the BRC by being the official insurer to the championship. I had gotten to know the BRC team very well in 2012 as I attended all of the rounds mainly for work but also as a time keeper. To cut a long story short, the little job that the BRC had planned for me was to help out with the Renault entrants, however, as there were only 3 of them entered I became surplus to requirements. That is until I got a phone call 4 days before the event... Media Manager Simon Moss called late one evening and asked me if I still wanted a job. He then proceeded to tell me all about the BRC Live radio programme that was to be broadcast LIVE (!!) for the duration of the events this year and how they had been let down by someone for the Pirelli. Now, I’m not exactly a great public speaker, in fact I’m actually pretty shy?, so you can imagine the horror that ran down my spine as Simon asked me to help them out. He gave me a day to sleep on the offer and said he would be in touch. Well as you can imagine, I was speechless. I then proceeded to ask my husband and best mate what they thought of the idea of me being on the radio babbling about rallying! I thought it was ludicrous but Paul then said something very true. “It will be like being on a time control but without the time cards!” I have been told I chat to competitors far too much on my Arrival Controls so this made sense. I am also one of these people that wants to try everything once – how do I know I won’t like something if I have never tried it?! I usually apply this to food I might add, but, after sleeping on the idea I thought if I try and I'm rubbish then they won’t ask again but if I don’t try I will always wonder if I would have been any good. So I called Simon and said let’s try it out. On Thursday, I was given the task of interviewing competitors in service during the Saturday and Sunday of the rally. O-M-G this was really going to happen!! On the other hand I thought, I can manage that....I know most of the competitors and their service crews so I became a little more comfortable with the idea. Soon Friday came around and I was live quoting On Event Damage policies in service so the idea and nerves of being on the radio were banished. 15
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