I was a little surprised to see it was still going on at
Donington but again, we had been assured that it would be sorted out and wasn’t an issue and to carry on with our weekend. After the weekend, I had other commitments on the Monday and didn’t do much and then on Tuesday I called SRO and basically couldn’t get a comment out of them at all. They seemed to be sitting on the fence and umming and ahhing about this, that and the other, by which stage we knew of course that the letter had done the rounds but hadn’t actually seen it.
Wednesday was the real bombshell when I saw the letter in its entirety and then later on that day when I got back to the office to find a press release from SRO saying we were no longer welcome in GTC and would be in GT2 if we wanted to continue running. There was no contact, no phone call, no questions, nothing. That was last week and this week, I’ve still heard nothing back from them, I can’t get a comment or get them to answer the phone. I’ve spoken to the BRSCC who at the end of the day are the licensee for running the meetings and they aren’t making comments either. Clearly it’s a situation that we aren’t happy with.
Crash.net Radio:
From your point of view this has to be even more frustrating because for you and Team Scandal this was the big step up into the British GT Championship for the first time and all the plans you put in place and the hard work you did has seemingly been for nothing.
Simon Scuffham:
Well that is an understatement to put it mildly. We have been planning this since January when we got the ok to run the car. We had Chris Mount, who was the eligibility scrutineer for the series, come out to look at the car in the workshop. He looked over it and we discussed what we were and weren’t allowed to do, he cleared us for entry and was quite happy that it was eligible and had no qualms about it.
