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BTCC hospitality sort of...................

In 1993 Auto Trader magazine were sponsoring the BTCC and ran a competition to win a pair of hospitality tickets. You had to answer an easy question and complete the phrase "Auto Trader and touring cars go together because................"

I entered and forgot about it but a few weeks later I received this letter:
   

All good stuff so off we went to Snetterton on the due date. Now the circuit was a bit run down at this time and the only hospitality box was a virtually bare room situated at the end of the pits with a very limited view - the start finish line basically. You could see down to Riches if you went outside and stood on the metal staircase though. The promised buffet lunch consisted of ham and cheese sandwiches plus a can of coke and every other guest was a used car dealer!


Being confined in a room full of dodgy car dealers is not really my idea of fun so we watched the beginning of the race which involved a huge start line crash and then departed to our usual spot at Russell for the rest of the day.

Not exactly the VIP experience we were expecting but we did get in for free and parked our Citroen 2CV next to a Roller in the posh car park.

And finally.........
my winning slogan was "Auto Trader and touring cars go together because they are both in the business of moving cars - fast!" For the next several years the "moving cars fast" slogan was incorporated in  the masthead of the magazine and I never did get any extra payment for thinking it up!