Donington park April 2nd - Historic race meeting

[FlipFlopGriff]

I can't see a calendar. In fact crap web site generally.
May be there - at Oulton Park tomorrow so see how we feel after that.
FFG

[Balmoral Green]

FlipFlopGriff said:

In fact crap web site generally.

You arent wrong there, shocking isnt it? No info about any of the events, other than the event title, date and gate prices. They have just had a £5 million re-fit, yet the website is just so crap.

[Polarbert]

So bad you had to mention it twice eh Warren?

[Polarbert]

Just had a look at the site and found that they have changed it. Only a few days ago it was quite good to use, with a calender on the left hand side, but now, no calender to see whats going on!


What a crap website!

[Balmoral Green]

Polarbert said:

So bad you had to mention it twice eh Warren?

Eh? I dont know what you mean?

[raceboy]

Does seem a bit on the pap side, and I just don't get that new logo, got some marketing bumf about it a few weeks ago and I bet some marketing agency has been paid a fortune to come up with 2 strips of paint
At least the DPRAC website still lists all the club level meetings.

[LongQ]

raceboy said:

Does seem a bit on the pap side, and I just don't get that new logo, got some marketing bumf about it a few weeks ago and I bet some marketing agency has been paid a fortune to come up with 2 strips of paint

Have to agree about the site. They are only listing the 'major' meetings and leaving most of the club meets out of it. Makes it look a bit sparse. The click on calendar had not been around long - thought that was quite good. That's Americans for you.

I think the new logo represents the use of the park for the new and extended runways planned for (N)EMA.

Either that or it means they are about 4 years behind the times with implementing logo's that loot like a painter and decorator has got pissed off with a non-paying client. Maybe they have ....

[pentoman]

Did you guys go in the end?

Not a bad day overall, formula ford race was pretty good as usual. Tannoy system a bit crap though at Donington - how can motor racing be so expensive but some elements of it so crap???

[minornut]

Yep! Quite a few of us braved the wind and rain.

www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=257276&f=113&h=0

[LongQ]

pentoman said:

Tannoy system a bit crap though at Donington - how can motor racing be so expensive but some elements of it so crap???

The bits I heard at various locations seemed OK at the time. To be fair it seems to work much better in the infield than it does when outside the circuit. Or maybe I was just lucky at my locations.

I presume they rely on people using the radio broadcasts of the organising outfit at the bigger meetings if they really want to know what is going on.

That said it was so windy most of the time that I was amazed to hear anything at all.