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I drove to the building site, fast, and drove along the perimeter recounting the big white and red Rhino Barriers lined up on the site. A rhino barrier is a plastic traffic barrier, 2m long and almost a meter high. When used as a traffic barrier it is part filled with water, giving it weight and strength to form a good traffic barrier.

If used without water it is perfectly adequate to use as a kart circuit barrier as it absorbs kinetic energy from a kart crash by moving. The rhino barriers are coupled to each other with a large plastic pin that drops in from the top. I called the Ops team and went through the plan. I got onto site and swapped my BMW for one of our sprinter vans. I asked Pat Horrocks to grab another sprinter and 20 guys and to follow me.

We made our way onto the site, via some misplaced Herras fencing and we started loading rhino into the vans. The barriers were filthy and turgid water poured out of each barrier as we lifted them and threw them into the back of the sprinters. It was foul and the snow kept falling. We made trip after trip. He was throwing these rhino barriers into the van as if they were candy. It took best part of two hours. The barriers were unloaded at the circuit, still with snow pouring down and arranged along the concrete, red, white, red, white.

Jim called me up on the radio, from the media room where a of our guests were waiting to be briefed and asked if we would be ready by 9.

My radio was hanging off so one of the Marshals called over and relayed the message. The circuit was ready. I went to the briefing room where Jim was briefing the drivers. I explained a couple of safety issues concerning the interface between Tecpro barriers and Rhino barriers to the drivers and asked them not to damage the rhino barriers as they would need to be returned to Balfour Beatty in their current condition before 9am Monday morning.

We got on with the race. There were a few issues, particularly with grit from the sand traps and water from the snow and rain getting into throttle cable outers which was then causing sticking throttles. During the race Tom McMurray, our pace kart driver pointed out that a driver had just managed to achieve fastest lap by driving through the pit lane, without stopping and without making a driver change, thereby missing out half the track.

This caused great mirth. We had to, very quickly, remove ourselves and our equipment from the circuit including pushing the rhino barriers into the tunnels under the grandstands. A little later we made our way to the podium in the middle of the stadium where Andy Critchlow administered our awards ceremony and David Coulthard gave out the trophies. Once the trophies had been given out Andy launched into a speech about the watch for the fastest lap.

If Fredrick or anyone from TAG Heuer heard the announcements, which of course where blasting out everywhere in the stadium, about a DC watch or a TW Steel watch there would be hell to pay.

We have hijacked a couple of events in the past for our sponsors but this was one I wanted to let go. I was standing in the bowl waving my hand across my throat at Andy Critchlow and luckily he caught on and changed the subject. Jack and our media team met with DC later for the watch presentation. We then headed back to our karthouse as it was known and began hauling the karts onto their shipping pallets.

I then went up to the driver change area to see some guests and I bumped into Fredrick. We were back on! My footsteps back to the karthouse were heavy, the karts were filthy and would need a huge amount of work for them to be readied for another round. The guys took it really well and began the prep.

This was really complicated as rules inside The Borough Of Newhams Olympic stadium regarding fueling and defueling with 30, people sitting over our heads were strict as hell. We prepared the karts and waited for the call. Shortly before we got the call and Tom led the boys up to the driver change area. At this point the cars of the grand finalists Vettel and Kristensens went technical, twice, dumping fluid all over the circuit. This unfortunately swallowed up a load of time, including the tv schedule time and ROC took the decision to pull the kart race, again.

My heart sank for the boys. We had some lovely correspondence after the ROC weekend. The fact the event was nearly cancelled and the whole Daytona team worked throughout the night to get the track prepared for us is just staggering. The karts drove superbly, and they yielded plenty of grip and drivability despite the conditions. In fact, I think it made it even more fun powersliding through all the corners. Your marshals were also on top of their game and well on the ball.

One of them noticed our kart had a sticky throttle before our own driver even realised there was a problem! He dutifully got another kart ready for my stint before I even knew what was going on, and when I asked for the pedals to be adjusted on the new kart, it was like an F1 pitstop, I had never seen someone move so fast!

So once again, thank you all for an awesome day. I think we had a couple of heats and if the car was still running at the end you were automatically entered for the Demolition Derby at the end. Meantime there was a celebrity race. Ex Blue Peter host John Leslie who later became infamous for altogether different reasons was due to take part in the celebrity race with Hugh Laurie and a few other big names.

I made a good start, up to fourth. Despite being in the car and wearing a crash helmet I could hear the tannoy system talking about John Leslie and just at that moment the car cut out, I lost a couple of places and then the car restarted.

It turned out the engine died each time I turned right which was a bit of a problem on an oval. I was pulling all of the wiring loom trying to fix what was clearly an electrical fault but to no avail. Pat came over to the car with a tv cameraman and started asking me questions. It was very comical, with Pat trying to ask questions as I sat there visor down staring straight ahead. It was very Stig. My brother Jim went on to win the Demolition Derby by being the last vehicle moving out of some cars and then went on to do the same the following year.

My instructors name was and I guess is still Andrew Sharkey. In we set off to dive in the red sea. We spent a week on a boat, out in the red sea and I went on some amazing dives including a dive on the SS Thistlegorm. The Thistlegorm was sunk by a German Heinkel bomber in She was carrying two steam locomotives, cars, motorcycles, bren gun carriers a small armoured vehicle , some ammunition and all sorts of other kit. You can make your way through the ship and see all of the above and one of the locomotives lies beside the wreck.

The Thistlegorm lies deep, in diving terms, at feet. You have to become an advanced diver to dive to this depth so a couple of days before we had taken our advanced test.

The night before we had overdone it a bit, particularly Ian, who passed out at the saloon table. A fellow diver named Jon and I then propped his eyes open with matchsticks and took some photos of him. The next morning we made a shallow dive and undertook the test. Ian was still suffering and on our return from a navigation exercise we found Ian asleep lying on the sand at the bottom of the red sea!

I also recall a night when there was some tension amongst the Egyptian crew during a major storm. After an hour or two we spotted a tiny sailing dinghy, literally the size of a rowing boat. There was a little old fella on board this tiny boat, in the middle of the red sea. He came alongside and was then lifted aboard.

It transpired that he had brought the captains hashish delivery. At the end of the trip we spent a night in Hurgada. Ian and I fancied a night out and suggested this to the rest of our crew however at this time, tourists were being shot, so the others declined. Ian and I went into town and hit some clubs and some drinks, a lot of drinks. I remember at one point I was standing above the dance floor, on a bar or something, I put my arms wide and fell into the crowd who, luckily, caught me.

Ian thought this was the funniest thing so I tried to repeat it at another club. This time I jumped up to swing from the lighting rig, which then collapsed dumping me, the rig and a lot of dust on the dance floor. The next day we flew back to the UK. The Ravens are coming off …. The Ravens come …. Please enter an email address. Something went wrong. More FTW.

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