​Given that time has passed, and exact recollections of this event will soon become hazy, it is
with some urgency that this report has been compiled in order to document that great Silverstone
weekend.
The latest intake of new students meant that our team was not short of members, with us
committing ourselves to a team of about 30. With 9 tickets in hand, this was already set to
become quite the logistical challenge.
On the evening before, we made our way to the track with six drivers - myself, Wesley Thung,
Bobby Bragg, Tom Grant (in Ding’s XC90), Ollie Raja-Brown towing the Riley in his Defender,
and the LWB (or FL) Sprinter race van towing the Sebring Sprite. Ollie went ahead to get
ourselves a favourable space in what was expected to be a packed paddock (119 cars over the
weekend), whilst the rest of us pulled over outside the circuit to rearrange ourselves in a more
ticket-friendly fashion…
We had made our way through security with a heavily packed van and four empty cars trailing
close behind, all of us repeating the usual ‘I’m with him’ as we breezed through, somehow not
rousing any suspicion on the way (how they didn’t question this, I don’t know). We practised our
racing lines around the service road (sensibly!) until we reached the Silverstone ‘Wing’, and the
van could finally unload itself outside of the pit garage Ollie found us.
Pit garage?! This was certainly my first time in a pit garage with OUMF, I almost felt jealous of...

​Given that time has passed, and exact recollections of this event will soon become hazy, it is with some urgency that this report has been compiled in order to document that great Silverstone weekend.
The latest intake of new students meant that our team was not short of members, with us committing ourselves to a team of about 30. With 9 tickets in hand, this was already set to become quite the logistical challenge.