Save Brighton Speed Trials
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JOIN THE CAMPAIGN TO SAVE THE BRIGHTON SPEED TRIALS
UK’s longest running motor sport event under threat
www.savebrightonspeedtrials.com
Brighton, 23 December 2013: Calling all motorsport fans, we need your support to help save the Brighton Speed Trials. The Speed Trials is the longest running motorsport event in the UK and has become a world-famous action packed sprint. It is under threat by Brighton and Hove Council who want to refuse permission and block the event taking place on the seafront.
But you can help by signing our petition; either visit www.savebrightonspeedtrials.com or go directly to the petition which is on the Brighton and Hove Council web site and sign it now: http://tinyurl.com/qjtbmub. Don’t delay; the council will be making a decision on 23 January 2014!
The Speed Trials has been running in Brighton since 1905 and is one of the highlights of the seafront entertainment calendar. Thousands of people come down for an entertaining fun-packed day out for the whole family to watch some of the UK’s best race cars and motor bikes compete along Madeira Drive. Over two hundred cars and motor bikes line up to take a timed run including road cars, race cars and drag bikes who compete to win the fastest in their class. A top six run-off to find the fastest car and bike brings the day to a dramatic close.
Brighton and Hove Council is planning to block permission for this annual event so we need your help. As well as signing our petition you can support the campaign by circulating the link to the petition to friends and family, FaceBook contacts and Twitter followers.
The Brighton Speed Trials is organised by Brighton and Hove Motor Club; the club’s Tony Watts said: “We are appealing to motorsport fans, local residents and everyone who enjoys a family day out at the seaside to help us save this historic event. The loss of the Brighton Speed Trials will be the end of an era for Brighton with over 100 years of history and entertainment in the area gone.”
The end of the Speed Trials will also have a financial impact on tourism and trade for retailers and businesses in the area as it brings thousands of visitors to Brighton.
Updates will be posted to Twitter, follow us: @SaveBST
Please like our page on FaceBook: www.facebook.com/savebrightonspeedtrials
UK’s longest running motor sport event under threat
www.savebrightonspeedtrials.com
Brighton, 23 December 2013: Calling all motorsport fans, we need your support to help save the Brighton Speed Trials. The Speed Trials is the longest running motorsport event in the UK and has become a world-famous action packed sprint. It is under threat by Brighton and Hove Council who want to refuse permission and block the event taking place on the seafront.
But you can help by signing our petition; either visit www.savebrightonspeedtrials.com or go directly to the petition which is on the Brighton and Hove Council web site and sign it now: http://tinyurl.com/qjtbmub. Don’t delay; the council will be making a decision on 23 January 2014!
The Speed Trials has been running in Brighton since 1905 and is one of the highlights of the seafront entertainment calendar. Thousands of people come down for an entertaining fun-packed day out for the whole family to watch some of the UK’s best race cars and motor bikes compete along Madeira Drive. Over two hundred cars and motor bikes line up to take a timed run including road cars, race cars and drag bikes who compete to win the fastest in their class. A top six run-off to find the fastest car and bike brings the day to a dramatic close.
Brighton and Hove Council is planning to block permission for this annual event so we need your help. As well as signing our petition you can support the campaign by circulating the link to the petition to friends and family, FaceBook contacts and Twitter followers.
The Brighton Speed Trials is organised by Brighton and Hove Motor Club; the club’s Tony Watts said: “We are appealing to motorsport fans, local residents and everyone who enjoys a family day out at the seaside to help us save this historic event. The loss of the Brighton Speed Trials will be the end of an era for Brighton with over 100 years of history and entertainment in the area gone.”
The end of the Speed Trials will also have a financial impact on tourism and trade for retailers and businesses in the area as it brings thousands of visitors to Brighton.
Updates will be posted to Twitter, follow us: @SaveBST
Please like our page on FaceBook: www.facebook.com/savebrightonspeedtrials
Also signed.
There is no just cause to ban the event due to the accident in 2012. I was at the event saw the machine that crashed and also saw where it crashed the following day.
The whole incident could have had a better outcome with better protection of the crash site. Also, and I'm not judging the scrutineers here, but I personally would never have let the sidecar run in the first place.
Implement the changes and continue the event IMHO.
I suspect a lot of it is due to the retarded Green party that are running the town and roll on the next local elections so the residents of Brighton can get rid of them.
Hopefully if it does get cancelled it will only be until the new councillors get in.
There is no just cause to ban the event due to the accident in 2012. I was at the event saw the machine that crashed and also saw where it crashed the following day.
The whole incident could have had a better outcome with better protection of the crash site. Also, and I'm not judging the scrutineers here, but I personally would never have let the sidecar run in the first place.
Implement the changes and continue the event IMHO.
I suspect a lot of it is due to the retarded Green party that are running the town and roll on the next local elections so the residents of Brighton can get rid of them.
Hopefully if it does get cancelled it will only be until the new councillors get in.
ridds said:
Also signed.
There is no just cause to ban the event due to the accident in 2012. I was at the event saw the machine that crashed and also saw where it crashed the following day.
The whole incident could have had a better outcome with better protection of the crash site. Also, and I'm not judging the scrutineers here, but I personally would never have let the sidecar run in the first place.
Implement the changes and continue the event IMHO.
I suspect a lot of it is due to the retarded Green party that are running the town and roll on the next local elections so the residents of Brighton can get rid of them.
Hopefully if it does get cancelled it will only be until the new councillors get in.
I was there too, and agree that the concrete bollard that the bike hit was poorly guarded, but it was after the finish line which might explain the lack of protection. The real cause was the bumps in the course at that point and these knocked the combination outfit off course under braking. If you watched competitors after the finish on their slowing down runs you could see that one particular area caused a few cars and bikes to veer slightly. It is shameless of the council to hijack Charlotte's death in the name of health and safety because she, and all the entrants, knew and accepted the risks from the event. No spectators or people walking along the Marine Parade were in danger at any time and they never have been in any event I have attended. The event has been emasculated anyway - competitors used to race two at a time for a full kilometre driving full racing cars and even USA dragsters (Dante Duce, Mooneyes)in the sixties and seventies and even then I can only remember one previous fatality. Your life and limb is in far greater danger from the cyclists who ride on the pavements with scant regard for the pedestrians than even the competitors' lives at the Trials. In fact there's so much dog sThere is no just cause to ban the event due to the accident in 2012. I was at the event saw the machine that crashed and also saw where it crashed the following day.
The whole incident could have had a better outcome with better protection of the crash site. Also, and I'm not judging the scrutineers here, but I personally would never have let the sidecar run in the first place.
Implement the changes and continue the event IMHO.
I suspect a lot of it is due to the retarded Green party that are running the town and roll on the next local elections so the residents of Brighton can get rid of them.
Hopefully if it does get cancelled it will only be until the new councillors get in.
t on the pavements in Brighton that slipping and falling on that is more hazardous!I drove into Brighton today for some last-minute Christmas shopping. Never again.
What with their bus lanes, 20mph limit, one-way streets, blocked off streets, no right turns, no left turns (for no apparent reason) and ridiculous traffic light phasing, I have never known such a motorist unfriendly town. If you don't know your way around, ( which I don't) navigation is an absolute nightmare.
What with their bus lanes, 20mph limit, one-way streets, blocked off streets, no right turns, no left turns (for no apparent reason) and ridiculous traffic light phasing, I have never known such a motorist unfriendly town. If you don't know your way around, ( which I don't) navigation is an absolute nightmare.
I loved it = 4 events a year that really floated my boat in the 1970's/80s and 90's in particular. Le Mans, the FF festival, any Prescott hill climb and Brighton.
Crazy guys on road bikes, 90 year-olds on Vincents who were only a couple of seconds or so off the top end pace, Jim Tiller on (rather than in) the Allard, all the F5000 big bangers and, naturally, the Vebra Chevrolet...the smell of fish and chips mixed with Castrol R and a touch of ozone. That pause at the end of each Top 10 run as we waited for the time to flash up...
I have a theory - the Greenies of B and H will never allow the event in its previous evil piston-engined/polluting guise to be re-born so why not re-invent it for alternative powered cars = electric/hybrid/cows dung etc. It might be a bit pedestrian for a year or two but as technology catches up I suspect we will see some seriously quick times...
Crazy guys on road bikes, 90 year-olds on Vincents who were only a couple of seconds or so off the top end pace, Jim Tiller on (rather than in) the Allard, all the F5000 big bangers and, naturally, the Vebra Chevrolet...the smell of fish and chips mixed with Castrol R and a touch of ozone. That pause at the end of each Top 10 run as we waited for the time to flash up...
I have a theory - the Greenies of B and H will never allow the event in its previous evil piston-engined/polluting guise to be re-born so why not re-invent it for alternative powered cars = electric/hybrid/cows dung etc. It might be a bit pedestrian for a year or two but as technology catches up I suspect we will see some seriously quick times...
moffspeed said:
I loved it = 4 events a year that really floated my boat in the 1970's/80s and 90's in particular. Le Mans, the FF festival, any Prescott hill climb and Brighton.
Crazy guys on road bikes, 90 year-olds on Vincents who were only a couple of seconds or so off the top end pace, Jim Tiller on (rather than in) the Allard, all the F5000 big bangers and, naturally, the Vebra Chevrolet...the smell of fish and chips mixed with Castrol R and a touch of ozone. That pause at the end of each Top 10 run as we waited for the time to flash up...
I have a theory - the Greenies of B and H will never allow the event in its previous evil piston-engined/polluting guise to be re-born so why not re-invent it for alternative powered cars = electric/hybrid/cows dung etc. It might be a bit pedestrian for a year or two but as technology catches up I suspect we will see some seriously quick times...
Sidney Allard in his Allard!Crazy guys on road bikes, 90 year-olds on Vincents who were only a couple of seconds or so off the top end pace, Jim Tiller on (rather than in) the Allard, all the F5000 big bangers and, naturally, the Vebra Chevrolet...the smell of fish and chips mixed with Castrol R and a touch of ozone. That pause at the end of each Top 10 run as we waited for the time to flash up...
I have a theory - the Greenies of B and H will never allow the event in its previous evil piston-engined/polluting guise to be re-born so why not re-invent it for alternative powered cars = electric/hybrid/cows dung etc. It might be a bit pedestrian for a year or two but as technology catches up I suspect we will see some seriously quick times...
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