MissBanzai London Tunnel Run - Saturday 16th October 2010

[Skifledanabit]

Back for the second time in 2010, we present another London Tunnel Run, hosted by MissBanzai.com inviting all Japanese car owners!

*** Note this is for Japanese cars only -no exceptions.. non Jap cars will be refused entry ***

The run will kick off at Essex Arena (RM19 1AE) on Saturday 16th October from 9.30pm. Maps will be handed out on arrival to those who have pre-paid through the Just Giving site. There will be no entry to the site after 10.30pm.

Please register your attendance by visting http://www.justgiving.com/TunnelRunMissBanzai and donating your £5.00 entry fee. (Please put user name & club in the comments). Donations made via the Just Giving site will go direct to the nominated charity, The London Air Ambulance. This is MissBanzai\'s 5th tunnel run and we decided that having used and abused London\'s roads on so many occasions with no incidents we would pick this charity, as many drivers in London and the M25 area are not as lucky as we have been and The Air Ambulance is normally called for road traffic accidents. So we felt this would be a very worthwhile charity to raise money for on this occasion.

In comments please put your club name & forum user name - nothing else! (this list will be used to hand out the route maps of the run on the night -there *may* be a limited number of maps on the night BUT this is NOT guaranteed).

-Please arrive at the arena no earlier than 9.30pm. PLEASE NOTE you should use the go kart track entrance to the arena.
There will be a £1 per person cash charge entry fee on the gate to cover the arena hire costs.

-Payments for maps can only be taken up to 13:00 on 16th October on the Just Giving site. PLEASE DO NOT REGISTER AFTER THIS TIME or you will not be included on the list of maps for us to allocate on the night! If you do not pay you are not guaranteed a map.

-Entry is £5 for a map (prepay on Just Giving) and £1 per person in cash on the gate to the arena on the night to cover the arena costs.

-This event is for Japanese cars only.. nothing else! There will be marshalls on the gate.

-Please remember to drive responsibly -anyone not doing so will be asked to leave the site.

-You will need to bring sat nav / London A-Z for when you get lost. A passenger / map reader is also essential!


Sky Insurance will be awarding a prize on the night for the best turned out car of the evening. The prizes could be awarded to any Jap cars from Civics to Skylines... so get polishing!!! Prize to be confirmed
We will also have a few other sponsors who will be awarding prizes on the night.

Hope to see some of you there! Any questions, please drop a mail to missbanzai@googlemail.com or post your questions here! We had approx 300 cars from various different Jap car clubs along last time, and have raised over £4,524 online for various charities to date, so make sure you come along and be part of it this and help raise some cash for a very worthy cause!!

[Skifledanabit]

Nobody interested? There was a huge amount of rotaries there back in March!

shall we get a list going?

1) Skifle
2) ...?

[Will66]

Nobody interested? There was a huge amount of rotaries there back in March!

shall we get a list going?

Most of the Rotaries were from the RX8OC on the last run I think but I\'ll be there.

1) Skifle
2) Will66

[JamietypeR]

U van count me in.

1) Skifle
2) Will66
3) jamietypeR

[Skifledanabit]

awesome, anyone else? this really is a great event, so much fun

[Skifledanabit]

Only 25 days to go before the tunnel run, get to the JustGiving site and take part!

[Arnie_O]

Ill be there too. there is usually a good selection from the RX8OC.
would be awesome to get both groups together and all hit the tunnels at the same time.

[Skifledanabit]

if you try and turn up at the same time and park up together, we can usually let you all out at the same time so you don\'t get split up.

get those payments in!

[ScottyR3]

I will be there for this. Should be a great night.

[petesonfire]

ill be up for this, should be able to get some mates to come along

[Skifledanabit]

Hello.. thought I would pop on again and see how you are all doing

Just thought I would give you all an update of things that are going on... There will be tunnel run stickers to buy (£3 each) on the night, we have done one for every run so you may see a few cars with a few on. A friend has also done a mix cd that will be on sale on the night for £1.50, we got the MissB memebers to suggest their fav driving tracks and we shoved it all on a cd.

There will also be prizes awarded for the best car of the night...
We have prizes from Route66bodyworx - //www.route66bodyworx.com, Sky Insurance - //www.skyinsurance.co.uk and of course MissBanzai - //www.missbanzai.com


please feel free to ask me any questions.. or drop a mail to missbanzai@googlemail.com

Oh btw over £1000 donated so far... this is the most we have ever raised before a tunnel run!

Now down to the serious note as to why we are doing this...

This is the write up from MissBanzai...

Ok so as some of you may or may not know some of the MissBanzai team went to meet the London Air Ambulane yesterday.
Gary (BigBoy) kindly spoke to the Air ambulance crew and arranged for us all to go and meet the team who we are raising money for on the tunnel run.
The team.. BoBRabbit, BigBoy, MitsyFTO, Me (Skifledanabit), Monkey, PhillWRC and Little Red jumped on the tube and headed for London.
We all thought it would be a few photos and then off we go... but it was so much more than that.
First we were shown around the helicoptor by a lovely aviation fireman, we then all clambered in to have pics taken with the helmets on etc.. we were just getting ready to have a group photot when the alarm went off for a shout.
We all stood back off of the heli pad.. and stood and watched the helicoptor take off, such an amazing site.
Whilst the helicoptor was attending to a stabbing, we were shown around the control room and all that goes into letting the pilot and crew know where they are going.

The helicoptor then came back and we met the pilot and the crew of doctors /paramedics.
We then chatted some more... and had some group pics taken.
After spending two hours showing us around it was time to leave.

What an amazing day, what an amazing experience and most of all what an amazing bunch of people the Air Ambulance crew are.

One of the facts they told us that struck home was everytime the Air Ambulance gets called out it cost nearly £3000!!!
Which is how much I hope we will raise with the backing of a few big companies.
Upon being told this I replied "our amount raised seems such a small amount compared to how much we will raise"
The aviation fireman replied "yeah but if you think in terms of if your £3000 pays for one flight and in turn they save one life, thats one person you guys has saved"

When put in to that context it made me feel like we will really make a difference.

Please remember that the London Air Ambulance get NO funding from the goverment... so please people dig deep for the tunnel run and donate, we will also have collecion pots on the night so bring your change.

[petesonfire]

all paid and stuff just need money for fuel lol

[Arnie_O]

any plans for meeting up early somware.
I know the members from the RX8OC are planning to meet at out usual location of Thurrock services

I Wonder if we can tempt Clive along

[HK FD3S]

Right we will swing by Thurrock services 9pm 9:15 depart to venue.

Thurrock Services post code RM16 3BG.:3gears-rh

[HK FD3S]

ill be up for this, should be able to get some mates to come along

dude - we should have taken your number. we pulled in to the BP petrol garage all 3 of us only to see you go by. we waited for a bit then head on route. Hopefully you had fun and not lost.

Will upload pics from the night.