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Re: [Mgs] Grand Prix -- No MG content

To: Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net>, MG LIST <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Grand Prix -- No MG content
From: Rick Lindsay <rolindsay@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:32:40 -0800 (PST)
   Yep.  I've worked 8 GPs and got into it just as
Eric describes.

rick


--- Eric Erickson <eric@erickson.on.net> wrote:

> On 29/02/2008, at 2:56 AM, Matt Trebelhorn wrote:
> >
> >
> > Can anyone offer advice?  Other than the obvious,
> of course, which is
> > "Avoid that money-grubbing %^#$% Ecclestone,"
> sound though that
> > advice may be.
> >
> >
> 
> I have been to just six GP - but I have never paid a
> cent to get in  
> the gate (accommodation and travel costs excepted).
> 
> AND the best seats (well mostly standing) in the
> house.  No-one  
> between me and the track, which is usually a foot or
> so away.
> 
> It isn't for everyone but have you thought about
> seeing if they need  
> any volunteer workers anywhere at the track?
> 
> There are many "specialist" positions which require
> some training/ 
> experience but some do not.  We had a French girl
> working with us  
> last year in Melbourne and she snared a job as a
> "spectator marshall"  
> - which meant she patrolled the "moat" to spot
> errant spectators (the  
> moat is the "no go" area between the track/debris
> fence and the  
> spectator fence - the place where us other marshalls
> work).   No  
> experience necessary.  If she spotted anyone there
> she might ask them  
> to leave but usually she would just report them to
> us and we would  
> call in security.
> 
> She got the "job" because she was backpacking around
> Australia and  
> didn't have much money - and wanted to see the
> F1-GP.  She has never  
> worked at a racetrack before.
> 
> She ended up having great fun and making lots of new
> friends!
> 
> Hey, I am planning on a bit of a "world tour"
> sometime where I will  
> contact all racetracks in advance to see if they
> want an experience  
> race official to help them out.  I am even trying to
> get onto the  
> crew from Australia who will be heading up to
> Singapore to help them  
> with their very first GP (and a night one at that).
> 
> Well, it is a thought.
> 
> 
> 
> Eric
> '68MGB MkII
> Adelaide, South Australia
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