21-02-2011
After having time to reflect, we feel that now would be an
appropriate time for us to step down from organising the Bruce Robinson
Rally.
We
would like to thank many of you who have taken the time and effort to
inundate and overwhelm us with emails and telephone calls, 95 percent of
which have been very positive and extremely encouraging. We sincerely
apologise that we will not be organising the event for you to enjoy next
year. Despite all the long hours and painstaking hard work over the last
five years, we have both thoroughly enjoyed giving something back to the
sport that we love so much, and therefore we are just as disappointed as
you, if not more so.
For the other people who have apparently raised concerns
about the 2011 event being ‘simply not enjoyable’ we apologise, that was
never supposed to be the intentions of our considerable and unrelenting
efforts.
We
cannot let the opportunity pass without thanking our event sponsors in
particular Mike Raw of M.G. Raw Motor Group, other members of LMC&CC
who have contributed to the event without question every year and all
the marshals who have helped man numerous controls across the
Lincolnshire countryside.
We
wish to give an extra special thank you to the landowners, some of which
have become good friends. They have all been exceptionally helpful and a
fundamental part of our event, it is greatly appreciated.
Finally big thanks to everyone who voted the Bruce as the
best event in the ANEMMC and ANCC Road Rally Championships 2010. We hope
the 2011 event follows suit.
Good luck to everyone in whatever motorsport activities
you pursue in the future.
Once again many thanks.
David and John Dimbleby
PS. Would anyone like 400 pallets?
17-02-2011
Spirit of the Rally
Award
After
consultation with Mike from M.G. Raw Motor Group we
feel that the deserving winners of the Spirit of the Rally Award are
Dave Broadley and Sam Spencer, Car 35.
Fittingly for
Dave, from the last minute rallying bunch, they were only paired
together just hours before leaving MTC 1. In fact, Sam, just 17 years
old, found out he was competing just 15 minutes before he had to leave
home. Despite the last minute nature and Dave’s rather enthusiastic
driving style they managed to get round the route fail free and put many
of the more experienced crews to shame. Congratulations to you
both.
The Bruce Robinson
Rally 2011 Organising Team.
17-02-2011
Dear Marshal,
On
behalf of myself, David and the rest of the organising team, may I
sincerely thank you, once again, for helping to marshal the ‘Bruce’
on what was a bitterly cold night. In total we manned all the time controls and in
addition 14 passage checks. I cannot recollect, certainly in recent
years, achieving these numbers.
I
have heard only compliments regarding your performance from the various
competitors to which I have spoken. Well
done.
Congratulations to the winners of the Marshals Prize Draw
which are as follows:
STC
26 - Richard Hunter
STC
45 - Rob Hardy and team
Thank
you to Mike of M.G. Raw Motor
Group for providing the prizes for the draw. I will
contact the winners in the near future to arrange delivery of your
prize.
Once
again many thanks.
John
Dimbleby
08-02-2011
Spirit of the Rally
Award
Due to the kind generosity of our event sponsor, Mike Raw
of M.G. Raw Motor Group a new
award is being introduced this year. A 'Spirit of the Rally' award will be given
to the crew who in the opinion of Mike and the Clerks of the Course,
have shown true spirit having triumphed over adversity during the event.
The recipients of this award will receive a free entry into the 2012
Bruce Robinson Rally. The winning crew will be announced via the web
site and notified by email in the days after the event once the stories
have filtered through. So if you have a tough or particularly
eventful night, please let us know.
Marshals Prize
Draw
In
recognition of the excellent work and commitment shown by our marshals
there will be two £25 prize draws to show our appreciation, once again
kindly donated by Mike of M.G. Raw Motor Group. The prizes will be drawn
by control number and no crew of marshals can win both prizes. The draw
will take place during the event with the winning controls / marshals
being published on the website and via email shortly after the
event.
04-02-2011
We are
delighted to announce that 'Chef on Tour' will be attending the start
venue providing us with excellent food and refreshments. We
listened to a few of you last year who
rightly suggested that the start venue needed refreshments so
we hope that you take full advantage of them. Please see the sample menu
here. We advise that you
turn up with a strong
appetite!
04-02-2011
Event
preparations are progressing positively. The PR work has been
successfully completed with only a few issues along the way. The private
land sections are shaping up nicely, quite dry compared to previous
years but that could well change given the forecast for tomorrow . All
the paperwork has been completed and checked, just needs printing.
We still require a large number of marshals so if you
are willing to help out then please email John at johndimbleby@aol.com It is quite worrying
that with such a good entry we have so few marshals with only a week
before the event. It would be a real shame to have to cut some sections
out. We offer free goody bags, and marshals
manning two or more controls can receive a free breakfast at the finish
venue.
Many
thanks.
21-01-2011
We still
require a large number of marshals so if you are willing to help out
then please email John at johndimbleby@aol.com
We offer free goody bags, and marshals
manning two or more controls can receive a free breakfast at the finish
venue.
Many
thanks.
21-01-2011
Entry now
full with 2 reserves. If your still thinking of entering please do -
last year we had 4 reserves which all got a
run.
09-01-2011
Another successful weekend of PR work completed
- there's just a few loose ends to finish off. We can then start to
think about equipment and the private land sections next weekend. Entries are currently up to 13.
04-01-2011
Regulations and Entry Forms are now available on the
respective pages.
Online
entries are also now open at http://bruce2011.rallies.info/index.php
We look
forward to receiving your entries.
03-01-2011
Preparations for the event are going well, the route
is finalised and the bulk of the PR work is now done. Regs and online
entries will be avaliable in the next few of days once a couple of
details have been
finalised.
25-12-2010
Merry Christmas from the Bruce
Robinson Rally :)
13-12-2010
Entries will be available along
with the Regulations in early January 2011.
