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24 Hour Scalextric
@AE Harris, 13th and 14th June 2009
Q: What do you do when you are let lose in your own factory space?
A: Do something no one in their right mind would let you do in their space.
Q: Such as?
A: Build a great big Scalextric track and challenge people to race around it for 24 hours non-stop.
Q: And...
A: Foolishly promise that you will provide a running commentary on the whole thing.
Q: COOL!
Saturday 13th June, 2009
13.00 Doors Open
14.00 Start of the Race
14.00 - 17.00 Family arts workshops
14.00 - 22.00 Screenings by 7inch Cinema and Outer Sight
18.00 - 20.00 Le Mans restaurant run by the Kitchen Garden Cafe
22.00 Doors Close to the public
Sunday 14th June 2009
10.00 Doors Open to the public
10.00 - 13.00 Brunch available
14.00 Race finish and awards
Throughout public opening hours
Grandstand seating to watch the race unfold
Pit Stop Cafe
Scalextric test tracks for public use
Throughout the race.
Continuous commentary on the race by Craig Stephens and James Yarker
audible live at the venue and webcast by via Rhubarb Radio.
Timed to coincide with the 'real' Le Mans 24 Hour Race this version is
1:32 scale in all but duration. It is a carnival event celebrating, amongst
other things, the absurdities of much human endevour.
Two tracks battled through the night over 400ft of mostly second hand Scalextric
track, the circuit was tempramental but ultimately magnificent. Cheap Mini cars
performed Ferraris. Drivers turned up at all hours. Many people grew quite obsessive.
Fastest lap records tumbled and became fiercly contested. The commentary was listened
for too many hours and grew too much for many people's sanity. Ultimately it ended
in Champagne spray rather than tears.
Various people have posted photographic records of the event online. Here is a selection.
These are by Jonathan Stokes.
These are by Pete Ashton.
and these are by Graeme Rose.
One day it is possible that the 24 Hour Commentary will appear on-line as a vast WAV file, or be transcribed
as a ludicrous piece of vanity publishing. Until then it will exist only as legend.
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