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« on: February 25, 2013, 01:15:01 pm » |
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Talking recently with another Club Arnarger about the upcoming soon to be marathon, the conversation switched to what freebies or blagging we had done over the years. For myself it was probably gaining access to the 1000km Silverstone in 2000, after drinking lot's of beer on the campsite by the golf course free entry was gained by arguing on the gate with my fellow comrades as to who had the tickets. The Staff got so annoyed with us that they just let us in. This was followed by walking through the paddock unhindered straight into Dick Barbour's Racing Garage where i think that they must of thought that we were jorno's or something and proceeded by summing us to the front of the garage ready for a pit-stop, Que lot's of photo taking. More walking about which included meeting and having a chat with Don Panoz and Derek Bell amongst others ended with a Bird's Eye view (literally) of Bob Wolleck collecting a trophy on the podium.
Lofty has the photo's somewhere.
Anyhow, Just wondering what Blagging or freebies other bods on Club Arnage have managed to do ?
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« Reply #1 on: February 25, 2013, 03:26:19 pm » |
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Blagged our way in through the main gate at Le Mans, on a Saturday, three years running, said that we were traders, remember setting up camp on an empty MB, as the queue outside the gate was growing awaiting for Monday, morning for the camp site to open.
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« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2013, 04:30:41 pm » |
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Pre Bar code scanning at MB.
Getting 35 people in on 25 GA tickets.
Same with the cars.
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« Reply #3 on: February 25, 2013, 04:51:51 pm » |
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From '96 till 2000, always got in at student-tarif with card of the Hospital in Antwerp. It said "universitair" on it, worked everytime to let them believe it ment I was a student at the university ... Carte d'étudiant monsieur  . |
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« Reply #4 on: February 25, 2013, 07:58:14 pm » |
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oi oi pat 1989 of the tracks music festival at the donington farm after 1000km race when jls won the world champeenship (i think) we heard music in the distance and followed our ears to a great night out.the blokes on the door had passed out and we got free entry to a 90 pound night out ace real ale bar.i seem to remember streaking around the campsite after.
i would love to see the mercedes doughnuting on y-tube after the win.bloody good that pinging the traffic cones allover the places.
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i dont want to be in a club
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« Reply #5 on: February 25, 2013, 08:05:47 pm » |
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Pre Bar code scanning at MB.
Getting 35 people in on 25 GA tickets.
Same with the cars.
So it was you that messed it up!  I once talked myself into giving me free drinks... I think >Martini...LB |
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« Reply #6 on: February 25, 2013, 08:41:29 pm » |
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Back in 86 my dad blag a visit into the pits balcony via a very slight connection with 3m. The following year it lead to a full on corporate venture which included a pre race lap of the track more food than you could imagine and 24 hour access into a suite over the jost garage.
My brother and a couple of friends are masters of gaining access into the pits during practice. Plenty of photos of them with crew/drivers with silly lager grins etc.
Remember the brands rallyx gp? We got in free by convincing the guy on the gate we were attending a dog show that happened to be taking place in the big plastic tents the same day.
My dad and brother are both pretty good at that sort of thing. Sadly I'm rubbish.
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« Reply #7 on: February 25, 2013, 11:11:31 pm » |
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oi oi pat 1989 of the tracks music festival at the donington farm after 1000km race when jls won the world champeenship (i think) we heard music in the distance and followed our ears to a great night out.the blokes on the door had passed out and we got free entry to a 90 pound night out ace real ale bar.i seem to remember streaking around the campsite after.
i would love to see the mercedes doughnuting on y-tube after the win.bloody good that pinging the traffic cones allover the places.
Thought that was 1998  Nice Yoss Sticks though..... |
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« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2013, 01:01:10 am » |
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Foolishly I'd gone to Spa for the 2005 1k one year with no warm clothing, and stopped en route and bought this cheap tacky jacket on the way down with pockets all over it - looked a bit like a photographer I suppose. I was watching the start from a room opposite the grandstand (where I probably shouldn't have been) and on leaving went down a spiral staircase and found myself in the pit lane. So I just stood still for a bit, then smiled at the marshal guy, and then over time moved along the pit lane and spent well over an hour there before my camera ran out of shots. The following year JP "borrowed" someone's credentials (GFs maybe?) and we shared a pass for the pit lane. It's quite lively during a race!!
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« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2013, 02:57:56 am » |
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(GFs maybe?)
Not guilty! Sharing a press pass is a very hazardous occupation, and a pit lane pass/vest is doubly so. If you get caught (and it does happen) both lender and borrower will be ejected from the circuit and the lender will be blacklisted for media credentials for at least 12 months. |
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« Reply #10 on: February 26, 2013, 10:23:59 am » |
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Me and my friend Jase were the masters of blag. Races, rallies, gigs, festivals you name it,we blagged it.
One of our favourite blags was the RAC rally. We didn't pay for a single stage for almost a decade. We used various ploys. Fake guest passes were the best, a little ingenuity with a chopped up copy of Autosport, some felt pens and once ready into town to prontaprint to make use of their scanner and laminator. 100% success rate year after year.
Le Mans wise, not much to report but we did blag our way into drivers briefing and prize giving at the Classic in 08, made the most of the free drinks and sat staring at Vanina Ickx for an hour or so. Quite impressive when you consider that they used finger print scanning to get in there (but not in the kitchens round the back).
Other notables were some festival in Leeds where we pretended to speak welsh and convinced some knuckle dragger that we were Gorky's Zygotic Monkey and got stuck into their free drinks quota before doing a runner. That same year we got into the 18th birthday party of the daughter of a well known Brummy comedian. Very swish do, with guests seated in an emptied indoor swimming pool. The evening ended with rope swing mischief over a carp pond (catch a fish or drink the forfeit).
Don't know if it's just the inner Yorkshireman, but everything is just that bit better if you don't actually pay for it.
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« Reply #11 on: February 26, 2013, 10:58:04 am » |
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Not quite a total blag, but back in 2008 I fancied a trip to Spa for the 1000kms - SWMBO agreed as long as it was less than £100 (so basically, not possible, or so she thought). Blagged a free ferry crossing, rough camped and blagged entry to the circuit for the whole weekend and did the whole weekend for under £92 (fuel and food), I was faily happy with that |
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« Reply #12 on: February 26, 2013, 07:28:19 pm » |
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to get in the pit straight grandstand at le mans me and nerk used to follow sign for the sebring resturant inti the paddock then all the way to the last flight of steps up down yada yada into the disabled area over the handrail and voila free seats.
my uncle and his mates were outside the pits near the end of the race and picked up coil of cable and tool boxes waiting to be loaded onto lorrys and wanderd up the main pit building stairs.ended up on the gantry joining the control tower and the grandstand for the podium presentation.
who dares wins.i got in the playboy grid girls changing room at imola carrying a box of hair removal wax at the 6 hour race.
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« Reply #13 on: February 26, 2013, 09:17:09 pm » |
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The most successful 'blagging' (if you can call it that) I have done, has involved getting to know the security guy patrolling the place you want to be. It is amazing what you can get away with if you befriend the man who could say 'non'. My favourite tale of getting a person where they don't have permission to be happened at Sebring in the '70s. Al Holbert and Michael Keyser won in 1976 in a Penthouse sponsored Porsche. Photographer Bill Warner was given the task of escorting a notable Penthouse 'pet' Anneka Di Lorenzo from a hospitality lounge to the podium ceremony. When they got to the gate of the pit lane a security guard asked to see their credentials. The guy was a 'gentleman of a certain age' rather than a strong-arm and insisted on seeing a pass. Bill was OK but the lovely Anneka had nothing. "Can I see your credentials", the guy asked .... so she lifted her blouse and showed him her assets. He was so stunned that they just breezed past while he regained his composure. Here is the lady in question...  |
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« Reply #14 on: February 26, 2013, 11:16:57 pm » |
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The ELMS race at Silverstone a few years ago, where some gentlemen of this parish did a lap, post race, of the circuit after a few sharpeners... Who were they ? Me, didn't see anything Your Honour... |
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