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The schedule for the day will go something like this...

10AM - Doors open & practice
10.30AM  - GT Club Car Rotation
MIDDAY - BTCC Race Two - grid set from June's race
12.45PM  - Lunch break & practice
1.30PM  - GT Championship team race (45 minutes)
2.45PM  - Slot.it Group C
3.45PM  - Muscle Car Mondiale
4.45PM  - Prizegiving

With Gary and Ed racing elsewhere on Saturday, only three racers will have to cope with a 'success ballast' power reduction in the BTCC race...

   

There's also British GT-style success penalties in the team race, with the top three from last time having 30, 20 and 10 seconds added to their pit stops. This is the line-up...

   

Additional drivers will be added to the teams on Saturday - as always, everyone will get to race.

Finally, we've had a couple of questions about what to do if someone gets Covid. This is bound to be an issue over the next couple of months as the UK goes through another big wave of cases. The official NHS advice is reasonably clear, although not that easy to find: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronaviru...hat-to-do/

The two recommendations most relevant to our precautions at the Barn are:

• Stay at home and away from others if you have Coronavirus symptoms or have tested positive for COVID-19
  
• Avoiding meeting people at higher risk from COVID-19 for 10 days, especially if their immune system means they’re at higher risk of serious illness from COVID-19 (even if they are vaccinated)
  

Put simply - don't come to the Barn for at least 10 days after your first symptoms or your first positive test.

Of course, if you are still ill or still testing positive at ten days, please stay away until you're feeling much better. Wearing masks, good hand hygiene and providing ventilation are all there to deal with asymptomatic and pre-symptomatic cases - when people show no signs of being ill, but are still able to infect others.

I hope we can be savvy this winter - and during future waves of the virus - and perhaps we can look at pausing mask-wearing during times of low infection rates. This will be part of 'living with Covid' over the next couple of years, especially as our club is committed to being a safe venue for those who are at higher risk from the virus or have vulnerable family members.