Rockingham Circuit in Northamptonshire once again hosted Media Day for the forthcoming HiQ MSA British Touring Car Championship. It also gave the media the first look at the Team sunshine.co.uk liveried Honda Integra that we will be campaigning this season.
I travelled up to Rockingham on the Wednesday morning with the other half, with the aim of arriving just before Martyn and Paul were due to film their pre season introduction for ITV. Sadly due to unforeseen circumstances (The wife took ages to get ready), we didn’t arrive at the circuit until 12:30 – we were hoping to be there about 11:30. Martyn and Paul were already ‘having fun’ in front of the cameras when we eventually arrived.
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BTCC
During an open testing session at Silverstone circuit on friday the 13th March, Citroen were seen testing what looked like contenders for the 2009 British Touring Car Championship. Citroen, who have never before entered the BTCC look like they could be set to replace SEAT with a couple of unlikely drivers.
The cars spotted were carrying the livery of what could be a works team and also a independents livery. The biggest shock however was the drivers themselves, none other than Fabrizio Giovanardi (#1) and Erkut Kizilirmak (#90). The pair were snapped during a cold and wet day, rounding Becketts in to the Club Straight…
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BTCC
I didn’t want to write a ‘salesy’ post but what the hell I am going too.
This season you are able to purchase tickets for the BTCC from us which will include the following.
Race Day Entry
Team sunshine.co.uk goodies, which include a new and improved team drawstring bag and money can’t by team cap – which either of the drivers will be happy to sign for you.
Access to the Team sunshine.co.uk hospitality marquee all day which will include Breakfast, Lunch and afternoon tea. In addition tea, coffee, soft drinks beer and wine will be available to you all day, as well as somewhere warm/dry to escape if the weather is poor. Inside the marquee we have a plasma TV showing the days racing live.
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BTCC
In the office at sunshine, there are only 10 of us and one of those people doesn’t drink tea or coffee, so just 9 hot drink consumers. To save the arduous walk to the kitchen to get tea, we have a kettle, fridge and all the tools in our small office. So as you can imagine, when one person makes a cuppa, they tend to ask everyone if they want a drink too, very rarely will you get everyone say ‘Yes Please’. So at worst you might get done for 5-6 brews. Every one takes turns so it isn’t all bad.
However, recently it has come to light that we have, what has been named as, a ’Stealth Brew Maker’. A stealth brew maker or SBM, is someone who quietly makes them self a cuppa and then sits back down again, citing that they are too busy to make everyone else a drink, but when one is offered to them by another equally busy person they always accept the offer of a cuppa, even though they have no intention of returning the favour.
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Personal
As the home counties became covered in 6+ inches of snow I started to wish I had ordered the wooden Toboggan I wanted the last time it snowed. Of course the kids would be the main beneficiary of such a purchase - honest.
With the kids off nursery on Monday morning I decided to have look and see what was about to buy, so that I had something for ‘next time’ it snowed. Bearing in mind that the press were reporting that 65% of the UK’s work force had taken the day off I didn’t think I would see anything I ordered until at least late this week or early next.
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Internet, Personal
It has been announced this week that Kiss Flights, the controversial charter flight-only operator which seemly rose from the ashes of the XL collapse, has been sold - before it has even operated a single flight. Founded in the later part of 2008, Kiss pitched themselves into the hole in the market that XL Airways left behind in September 2008. With a very identical but much reduced route plan, it was hoped that Kiss would help agents sell destinations that XL serviced before its demise.
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News, Travel
So as there isn’t long until the seasons gets started and we are seeing a trickle of releases regarding team news and who everyone is driving for I though I would have post I could update as news becomes available. If I get anything wrong please shout.
I have written this based on information on BTCC.net & Crash.net
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BTCC
As it appears I am on the brink of the dreaded Man Flu, I thought I would help my fellow sufferers spread the word about Man Flu. This crippling disease that regularly spreads through the male population of the country, has been claimed to be ‘the closest thing to death without actually dying’. However others say that to claim a common cold to be Man Flu is an exaggeration on the part of the man - of course this was probably written by a woman.
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Personal
It has been reported in the news today that a six year old boy in Virginia, USA (only in the states) was so desperate to get to school, that having missed the school bus, he decided to take his fathers car and drive himself there instead, apparently he didn’t want to miss PE and breakfast. His mother was sound asleep in bed.
The youngster managed to drive 6 miles (10km) before finally wrapping the Ford Taurus around a lamppost. He lost control of the car whilst weaving though rush hour traffic and over taking slower vehicles. When questioned by the police, he told them that he had learned to drive using video games.
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News
When I first started out in travel I worked in various call centres, selling on a commission only basis. i.e. No salary, so if you didn’t sell anything you didn’t earn anything. Fortunately I had a knack for selling so I was able to make decent money.
Now when you spend all day answering the phone you quickly get to know what a customer’s standard answer or question is going to be and if they are ‘playing the game’, which is ringing around and trying to get you to undercut the last guy in order to save themselves a few quid. This ‘game’ wasn’t something I got into as they were generally wasting my time, after all, usually they would do is ring the next number in their list and get a competitor to undercut you. As all travel agents were selling from the same system we all had pretty much the same base price.
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Travel
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