GTI International 2008 - 21st & 22nd June
I think that you will agree that Bruntingthorpe is a good venue for GTI International and we will be back there this year for the weekend of the 21/22 June. We have learned quite a few lessons about the site during the past two years, and will be making a few changes which will, we hope, ensure that everyone has an even better time than last year.
Once again, we will be offering clubs special parking areas and we hope that your club will take up this opportunity. There will be no charge for these areas but, as last year, we are asking your members to book in advance. The details of how this can be done are set out on the sheet which accompanies this letter.
Please note that the offer of special club parking is only open to cars manufactured by the Volkswagen Group, Volkswagen, Audi, SEAT and Skoda (and Bentley and Lamborghini!)
We will be running the inter-club competitions once again. The clubs which win the award for the best display, and for winning the competitions overall, will each receive a cheque for £150, together with the trophy which is held for one year.
In addition, we have commissioned a special commemorative sticker, purely for club members, and all the cars on your club plot will receive one free of charge.
Like last year, all visitors to GTI International will enter by the same route and your members will reach the special club areas by driving down through the car park with the rest of the general public. This makes it absolutely essential that they display their club passes in the windscreen; only those who do so will be allowed to drive right through the main car park to the club areas.
We want to make GTI International 2008 a great event for the clubs. It is our 2ist anniversary year and, if you have any constructive suggestions as to how we can make the event better, I would be pleased to hear from you on 07944 490 431 or email
shanechung@autometrix.co.uk
Special booking scheme for club members
In order to be as fair as possible to all the clubs which wish to have special parking areas at GTI International, we are introducing a new booking scheme.
1. All clubs which wish to have a special parking area at the event must complete the registration form and return it to us by the 31st March 2008.
2. At this stage, we are not asking clubs to indicate how many spaces will be required.
3. The advance booking forms and the booking form on our website will have a space to show whether the person booking belongs to a club, and whether they would like a place in that clubs parking area.
4. When we receive bookings which indicate this, we will check with you to confirm that the person is actually one of your members. We will probably do this in batches.
5. As the booking forms and payments come in, we will keep a running total of the club entries. At a cut-off date two weeks before the event, we will total up the entries for each club and map out the site based on these numbers. If we have received 27 advance bookings for VWOC (GB), for example, we will allocate a space sufficient for this number of cars, plus a little extra space for any late-comers.
6. Because we will have the addresses from the advance booking forms, the tickets and Club Display windscreen passes will be sent out directly from our office. This will avoid you having to send them out.
7. There will always be some club members who arrive on the day who will not have club parking passes. They will be directed into the general car park and will then have to walk to the Information Centre. One of our staff will phone your club co-ordinator at the event to check that the person is a member, and that there is still available space on the plot. The person will then be given a Club display pass which will enable them to drive from the general car park to the club plot.
This might all sound a bit complicated, but we believe that it will make the whole thing much easier to organise. It will avoid having empty plots, or ones which are only partly filled.
Please note that only vehicles manufactured by the Volkswagen Group are permitted in the special Club parking areas.
