Liverpool Motor Club

2008 Championship

Following on from the announcement in the April Bulletin I am now pleased to confirm the Club’s decision to introduce an exciting New LMC Marshals Championship for 2008, which was provisionally announced on the morning of our first Aintree Sprint of the season..

The main feature of the Championship will be the great Prizes. The First Prize will be Two Entrance Tickets to the 2009 British Grand Prix so that you and your husband/wife/partner or friend can go with you to this premier Motor Sport Event. Additionally, there will be a second and third prize vouchers (with a value of £75 & £50 respectively). There will no cash alternatives.

You will be able to earn points for each LMC event that you attend as well as any selected events run by other clubs.

Apart from winning the championship, what’s in it for you? Well, for a start, everyone marshalling at Aintree gets a buffet lunch and soft drinks during the day and a cash contribution towards your travel expenses.

Marshals attending all day for five Aintree events can claim FREE Membership of LMC for 2009, and there will be an End of Season Celebration (more details later in the season).

In return we are asking you to give us your commitment to Marshal at our Aintree Sprints & Track Days, the Hillclimb Weekend at Loton Park (see Important Note at end of this announcement) and, if possible, your help on the 2 Roadshows. Certain events during the season will attract bonus points, details of which will periodically be announced in the Marshals section of the LMC Web Site.

The Championship rankings can be viewed in the Marshals Section of the website so that at a click you can see how you are faring. The web site will also keep you advised of any invitations that we receive to help on other Club’s events together with other information on our Marshalling Activities.

In 2008 Bill Gray will once again be your Chief Marshal and hopefully his work commitments will be a little less onerous than they were last year. Bill is joined by our New Marshals’ Co-ordinator Colin Briody-Skinner. Whatever you do don’t spell his middle name as Brodie – keep him happy. Welcome to your new role Colin.

New Marshals are particularly welcome to join our old friends and nobody has to be a member of the Club to Marshal, (although we would prefer them to be).

Colin will deal with the day to day co-ordination of the Marshals Championship and is your first port of call for any queries. He will be working with Bill. You will probably find him ringing, e-mailing or even texting you asking for your assistance on events. Be kind to him!! He’ll be a happy man if you say yes!

Points for the Championship will need to be claimed within 7 days of the event. There will be a record card which requires signing by the Chief Marshal, the LMC Championship co-ordinator, or their designated deputy after the event has finished. It is YOUR responsibility to claim the points.

The Conditions of the Championship are set out in this section of the web site. If you have any queries then please ring Bill Gray, Colin Briody-Skinner, John Harden or Geoff Ashworth.

We accept that the scheme may not be perfect first time out and your feedback and views are most welcome. We reserve the right to alter the Championship & its Conditions if necessary.

So who is going to go to the 2009 British Grand Prix? Watch the Marshals section of the web site for more details as they unfold. The bets are on and the runners are in the boxes for the next event of the season, our Track Day on Saturday 31st May. Look forward to seeing you there.

To register for the championship please pick up a form at any of our events or you can download a copy  here and post it to the address on the form. You can also download a copy of the rules

Important notice:- Owing to the late announcement of the Championship we have decided to start it from the Track Day on 31st May 2008 and it will now include four out of the five Aintree Events and One Loton Park Hillclimb Day. This means the first Aintree Event on the 26th April will not count towards the Championship as we hadn’t been able to give sufficient notice to everyone who wanted to participate.