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Gordon - you're point about sanitising a grid of delicate and highly-detailed concours cars is a good one. A painstakingly-created finish could easily be ruined in a second.

Another thing not on my original list is the need for no-one to shout! We'll need to get a microphone at WHO for race control and only one person can use it. That and the other constraints make it difficult for the race controller to participate fully as a racer.

All in all, it's a recipe for events not being as much fun as usual - especially for the team running the event. And the raison d'être of WHO is fun.

As for the bigger picture, the motivation for easing lockdown is to protect jobs and businesses, to make sure children get the educational opportunities they deserve and for families to get a 'breather'. The risks of easing lockdown are that infection rates go up, more people die and we all end up back in lockdown. For the moment, that suggests caution and patience at WHO - the club is perfectly fine in hibernation and we can contribute to wider society by not contributing to infection rates.

Having said that, I will be talking to the WHO organising team about how we can implement all the things listed above for a possible return for the Digital Saturday at the end of September. A lot of things need to happen in the outside word for that to be a possibility, but we need to be sure we can put on an event safely before committing to anything. And we also need to decide if it would be worth it - or if we wait longer, until things are more 'normal'.