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Andy_B

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #30 on: 05 May 23, 08:44 pm »
Hi Andy. If you can bring four to the S&G I will have cash.  Cheers.

Thought you said you like 2.75? But either way will do mate 👍

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #31 on: 06 May 23, 07:29 pm »
Hi Andy ,if you have a couple of tyres still I will take you up on the offer of 2.
I could collect one evening in the week T  shirt arrived today as well.
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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #32 on: 08 May 23, 07:30 am »
Important message!!

Everyone, it's time to get your entries in for this great event!  From the middle of next week I am away on hols for a couple of weeks, so entries will languish in my inbox until my return, and that's quite close to the day!   So:

If I have already sent you an entry form, it's time to send it in!

If you want to receive an entry form, email me at - ckgbmembership@gmail.com  right away!

DON'T PUT IT OFF, NOW IS THE TIME!

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #33 on: 13 May 23, 08:03 am »
The BBQ is booked and the ice cream van is booked. There is possibly going to be a commentator so bring plenty of info and anecdotes about yourselves and your karts. I have a few vintage style oil banners and some bunting to create a vintage ambience. I'm currently working on a trailer made from a 1928 Morris minor front dropped axle and wheels that could be used to display some sort of vintage trinketry if anyone has some to bring along.
A couple of us are going up there today to start prepping the ground for a smooth track.
 So people get those entries in for what is looking like a great weekend.
If you can drive round corners, you're not going fast enough.

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #34 on: 13 May 23, 08:06 pm »
Brilliant, really looking forward to this 🤗😎😁

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #35 on: 15 May 23, 12:51 pm »
Well we had a good old laugh at starting to lay out the track, spent most the day rollering (around) and sorting the drainage out in the lower field!! but by tea time we had just about got something good happening - a few pics to amuse you all and a small video of the track to follow to help you all see what its like, this will be a fun event I am sure.

If anyone wants to lend a hand over the weekend 10th/11th June please get in contact with Jim Tanner CKGBevents@gmail.com as there will be lots to do

Cheers
« Last Edit: 15 May 23, 12:54 pm by Andy_B »

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« Reply #36 on: 15 May 23, 05:25 pm »
 ;D Looks like you are having far too much fun !! Well done, the track looks really good !!

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #37 on: 15 May 23, 08:44 pm »
Andy, was the go pro footage any good?

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #38 on: 15 May 23, 09:46 pm »
Yes Mate I am editing everything together and will have something this week

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #39 on: 18 May 23, 11:28 am »
A little video to amuse you all and to see the track and what to expect for the S&G GP

https://www.cyclekartsgb.com/blog-2-1/starandgarter
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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #40 on: 18 May 23, 05:57 pm »
Good job chaps, better check all my nuts are tight and lock up my axle.

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #41 on: 19 May 23, 06:00 am »
We have a commentator for the races so can the people who are bringing a kart to the S&G please give me some info on your Kart and yourselves. It doesn't need to be serious or to fact heavy. I can always make up stuff about you if you can't think of what to write. So get your details to me ASAP.
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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #42 on: 19 May 23, 06:47 am »
Commentary for mine Jim, sorry I can't make it :-(

" Well the cyclekart known as slippery Jim is nowhere in sight! Literally nowhere to be seen at all, added stealth technology by the driver painting his kart with blended octopus and chameleon corpses  makes it hard for the opposition to see just how well he's doing! His driver skillfully avoids all photographic evidence as he probably rounds the bends with great aplomb and not much of a to-do, we think. The plucky three wheeler is powered by three hamsters in a wheel coaxed gently around with a copy of play-hamster on a string at idle and uses a vicious pixie dressed in bondage gear as a cox when the accelerator is floored - we hear he may acquire a mystic supercharger for future events. Apart from enjoying Viking re-enactment and the illegal transportation of small Australian birds hidden in lycra, the driver, also known by the alias Jim, pingu (for some unknown reason) and Ivar Thor-Heilbo, has been driving for nearly a season and is gaining momentum - slowly, and we mean slowly"

Slippery Jim is proudly sponsored by Albert Fegworthys' seaside emporium and general knick-knackery.

« Last Edit: 19 May 23, 11:48 am by Jimr1999 »
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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #43 on: 19 May 23, 09:38 am »
Great work by the venue team.
We must avoid torturing our brains with false problems, it occupies but it can annoy. In jest!

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Re: The Star and Garter Charity Grand Prix
« Reply #44 on: 19 May 23, 12:32 pm »
NEWS !! Baffled experts descend upon sleepy Northamptonshire village after irregular crop circles appear in pub field.