Neil Smalley

Sorry to hear the news Si.

I'll take this chance to thank you for all the hard work you put in. I don't think there's anyone here who does'nt applaud your efforts in this.

Well done, shame about the wheather

blubell

What a shame after all the hard work you guys put in.

Worse still Ill have to do some decorating this weekend if Im not going out

SDB

Hi All

Unfortunately we have had to call off the rally x event planned for this weekend.

Whilton Mill have been fantastic and had reviewed their pricing, etc to help us do it with the reduced numbers, so that side was sorted...

but looking at the weather forecast this morning for the next 3 days, there is just too much rain. We really needed it to be dry for the last 7 days up to the event to give the ground a chance to dry out.

As it stands, even if it doesn't rain on the day, the ground will be way too soft, and we'll end up with rutted tracks, and cars stuck in the mud, etc.

This is a real shame after all the effort everyone has put in, and it will be a financial loss to scoobynet after credit card charges, and a few other things, but that's one of them things.

Sorry to all those that booked up and were looking forward to it as much as me, refunds will be credit back to people's cards today.

All the best

Simon

Ian Cook

carl

Is it not possible to hold some people's 'accounts' in credit against a future RallyX event, should they so choose (might reduce the credit card charges a bit)?

harj

Major bummer Si, well done for all your efforts. Hopefully the next date will be alot drier.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Sorry Simon

Thanks for the effort - I'm up for the next one

SDB

It really is a shame... I guess weather was always against us rather than for us, but it was definitely worth a try as it would have been great fun.

We will definitely run one next year when the weather comes back a bit.

If we get lots of snow, we might run one on the spur of the moment also which would be awesome, but I think we'll have to leave it for this year now

Ian Cook

oh well, thanks for getting it this far Si ! i am deffo up for one whenever you can do it !

The_Gza

Oh well - these things happen mate

Big thanks to everyone who put in the hard work to try and get this one organised. I had planned to make the trip down with Robertio, but there's always another time.

Chin up and I'll look forward to the next ScoobyNet event

Cheers

Mo

harj

Oh gawd, now squire's is gonna drag me to Wales this Sunday

carl

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Simon de Banke:
<B>If we get lots of snow, we might run one on the spur of the moment also which would be awesome, but I think we'll have to leave it for this year now [/quote]

Sounds great! (but won't the snow disappear after the first half-a-dozen cars have been through?)

SDB

thanks guys

carl.. not necessarily.. when we went to bruntingthorpe last winter (which was fabulous) we did many runs over the same ground and it was just the snow was packed in solid.

It obviously wouldn't work with just a light scattering.. but if we had a huge down poor, etc and could get it up and running quick enough, it would be a hoot

harj

I learnt more in the snow with Simon at Brunters than I ever could in the rain

Cheers Si!

DrEvil

Sorry to hear that Simon..

Thanks for all you hard work thou mate.

Alex

Mkhan

Damn.......I will be up for the next one count me in...

Thanks again Puff for booking it for me..

Mark
Unnamed_Warrior

roadrunner

Si, Thank you for giving us the opportunity for such an event (even though I was abit late in booking )

I'll definitely be up for the next one

rr

Disco

Si,

Is there any chance of still having the BBQ side of the event. That way you wouldn't have to make a full refund, thus incorperate the charges into individuals BBQ fees. And everyone still gets to have a super sized Scooby meet. Just a thought?

SDB

Good thought Disco..

but unfortunately we were not making any money at all on the BBQ, in fact we were making a loss of a few pence per ticket.. and the BBQ was only being put on because we were running the whole event.

Disco

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:<HR>Originally posted by Simon de Banke:
<B>Good thought Disco..

but unfortunately we were not making any money at all on the BBQ, in fact we were making a loss of a few pence per ticket.. .[/quote]


Shame, I just thought you may have been able to absorb the credit cards transaction costs by doing that. Perhaps people wouldn't mind paying another couple of quid cash on the day, no-one likes to see Scoobynet lose money after all!

NM

Sorry to hear the news

What about the BBQ mixed with some of the driving activities they have at Whilton.

Karting
Quads
Etc

We could still have a big Scooby meet and then race on the Karting and Quad tracks using their equipment.

Neal

ian_sadler

Oh Smeg,

I was really looking forward to Sunday but loads of thanks to Simon for his efforts in getting this off the ground.

Sorry to be a party pooper but I don't really want to drive all that way for a rainy BBQ.

But I don't mind the credit coming back less c/card charges (about 2% I think).

I'm defiantly up for some more muddy (or snowy) fun.

Ian

Ian Griffiths

Shame I was looking forward to meeting everyone and chucking the car about a bit. I'll keep em peeled for the next one.

ChrisB

Aw shucks.

Thanks for the all the effort Simon.

Are the credit card charges big? I don't have a problem if you only want to refund £70, leaving £5 to cover the bank costs and help pay for the time spent sorting it out.

Having seen the video of Brunters, I'm up for that weather allowing!

Upside is that I can get lashed on Saturday night now without worrying about an early start.

ChrisB.

Scoobychick

iTrader: (1)

Oh bu99er

Thanks for all your efforts Simon - it's a shame that this lovely autumnal weather has spoilt them.

I'm definately up for the next one

Sal

Robertio

iTrader: (1)

Thanks for the effort you put in Simon, like Chris if you want to refund just £70, and keep the £5 for charges it's fine with me.

Bruntingthorpe might prove a bit of a problem, being the better part of 400 miles from me, it'd take me hours to drive down in the snow

Looks like I start my rest of the year doing nothing a week sooner, oh well...

Just have to look forward to next summer now

rsquire

Allan

iTrader: (1)

Thanks Simon for trying to arrange this, looking forward to the next one.
Allan

johnfelstead

bollox