Informal
BBQ to be held on Saturday evening alongside the V8 Marquee
at MGLive!
Walter
Kallenberg is arranging an informal BBQ alongside the V8 Marquee
on Saturday evening - do get in touch with Walter if you would
like to join him. Email contact
Posted: 250511
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Longstanding
V8 member, Walter Kallenberg, has been coming to
the annual MG Car Club long weekend meeting at Silverstone
since 1981 and has enjoyed the V8 BBQs usually held
on the Saturday evening alongside the V8 Marquee.
He often brings supplies of German sausages with
him. Well for MGLive! 2011 Walter and Brigitte are
planning an informal BBQ on Saturday evening alongside
the V8 Marquee at Silverstone Circuit. Any V8 members
and their friends who would like to join the BBQ,
do get in touch with Walter and Brigitte for further
information and to coordinate your plans. Contact
Walter Kallenberg
Background
to the V8 BBQ on Saturday evening at the Club's
annual MGLive! meeting at Silverstone
In the four or so years to 2009 the V8BBQ
was generously sponsored by Clive Wheatley
and his team of volunteer cooks with free
beer and wine donated by several fellow members.
The delicious suppers cooked by Clive's volunteers
were very popular with V8 members and their
friends and gradually the scale of the event
grew substantially so that it involved a major
exercise for Clive's team in bringing a large
BBQ cooking range to the event along with
large quantities of provisions purchased and
prepared by the ladies. V8 members were grateful
for the generosity of Clive and the team as
the workload was enormous. But sadly in 2010
Clive's team were not able to provide the
V8 BBQ.
For MGLive! 2010 the V8 Committee looked
at alternatives and decided that replicating
a V8 BBQ on a similar large scale as before
with covered accommodation, possibly at a
location outside the Circuit, was not something
we could do. So the decision was made that
those V8 members who wished to have an informal
BBQ would be able to do so alongside the V8
Marquee in the same way as many other Club
members attending the event do all around
the Circuit. So an alternative informal
BBQ where V8 members joined together for
a BBQ alongside the V8 Marquee where they
provided and cooked their suppers together
was announced. Fortunately the weather was
fine but the scale of the DIY event was much
smaller but enjoyable.
For MGLive! 2011 news received from
Club Office early in the year guided our plans.
We heard from Bill Silcock (the previous head
of the MGLive! team and currently the Club
Vice Chairman) earlier this year that they
recognised the Main Club event on Saturday
evening at MGLive! provided in previous years
was not seen as a very good event, so they
were devising a new format which would provide
two events - a more formal dinner in
one of the comfortable reception buildings
at the Circuit and an informal buffet and
music event so members would have a choice.
For the formal dinner Bill indicated
he recognised the successful format the V8
Register has had for its periodic anniversary
dinners where the dynamics of the evening
are subtly managed to avoid tedious speeches
and presentations was the way to go. I said
that in principle a Club dinner on the Saturday
evening at the Circuit on that basis would
be something I felt I could recommend to fellow
V8 Committee members, subject to our knowing
more of the detailed format for the evening.
When the V8 Committee met earlier this year
they supported the idea of the V8 Register
taking several tables at the dinner and subsequently
Julian White (Club General Manager) has let
us have more details of the evening. So the
V8 tables at the Club's Saturday evening dinner
have been promoted on the V8 website.
Victor Smith, V8 Chairman
More details
of the V8 tables at the Club dinner |
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