by Carlo » Sun Dec 01, 2013 6:14 pm
I was Clerk of Course at Timaru when Bruce Jenner aka Jellybean ex Dunedin brought the team out from the States. As part of their awareness program at Timaru they had a contest via the radio station that resulted in the winner being a guest of the team for the duration of the race meeting and as Bruce told me late on the Sunday night this 14 year old kid that won it was an absolute asset to them as they had a number of difficulties during both the build up as well as during the meeting and the kid took them to engineering shops who dropped what they were doing to machine items for them, could find various parts suppliers at the drop of a hat, could score use of equipment FOC, knew who to see and where to find them, an absolute gold mine in every respect.
Mind you I would have been very disappointed if he couldn't as it was our #2 son Simon.
I was Clerk of Course at Timaru when Bruce Jenner aka Jellybean ex Dunedin brought the team out from the States. As part of their awareness program at Timaru they had a contest via the radio station that resulted in the winner being a guest of the team for the duration of the race meeting and as Bruce told me late on the Sunday night this 14 year old kid that won it was an absolute asset to them as they had a number of difficulties during both the build up as well as during the meeting and the kid took them to engineering shops who dropped what they were doing to machine items for them, could find various parts suppliers at the drop of a hat, could score use of equipment FOC, knew who to see and where to find them, an absolute gold mine in every respect.
Mind you I would have been very disappointed if he couldn't as it was our #2 son Simon.