25-07-12, 04:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 25-07-12, 04:35 PM by HarryHornby.)
I just want to say what a top fella Tom Tunstall, team manager and rider for the Tom Tunstall Racing team competing in the British Super Bikes is.
I've just had a fab weekend at Brands Hatch, qualifying and race day, with access to the BSB paddock and Tom's garage, all for free.
Back at Easter I took my 5 year old daughter to the practice day for the opening round of the BSB at Brands. She took a shine to Tom because he has the same surname as her primary school, and according to her he's named after her school. We had a fab day and she cheed him on from the inside of Druids, waving every lap. She even wrote about seeing him in her learning diary at school.
I decided to take her to qualifying for the latest round at Brands and she again spoke of Tom Tunstall, and asked if she could make a poster and he could wave at her, I explained that he might not see us, but said I would write to him, explain where we would stand and see if he could give us a wave.
The result was him leaving us a pass at the gate, one that would get us in the BSB paddock behind the pits to meet him, AMAZING, certainly never expected that.
We had a fab weekend, went and met him on both days, went in the garage, chatted bikes with his crew and met the team.
Despite him having a tough weekend both as rider and team manager, with a new bike after moving from Ducatti to Honda at the last round. Losing one of the bikes and his team mate breaking his foot after a high speed engine failure he still managed to take 5 minutes to chat to us and my excited daughter, he was dead chuffed about the poster she had made and was generally a top, all round guy, even his team said as much about him
So, a big thank you Tom!
I've just had a fab weekend at Brands Hatch, qualifying and race day, with access to the BSB paddock and Tom's garage, all for free.
Back at Easter I took my 5 year old daughter to the practice day for the opening round of the BSB at Brands. She took a shine to Tom because he has the same surname as her primary school, and according to her he's named after her school. We had a fab day and she cheed him on from the inside of Druids, waving every lap. She even wrote about seeing him in her learning diary at school.
I decided to take her to qualifying for the latest round at Brands and she again spoke of Tom Tunstall, and asked if she could make a poster and he could wave at her, I explained that he might not see us, but said I would write to him, explain where we would stand and see if he could give us a wave.
The result was him leaving us a pass at the gate, one that would get us in the BSB paddock behind the pits to meet him, AMAZING, certainly never expected that.
We had a fab weekend, went and met him on both days, went in the garage, chatted bikes with his crew and met the team.
Despite him having a tough weekend both as rider and team manager, with a new bike after moving from Ducatti to Honda at the last round. Losing one of the bikes and his team mate breaking his foot after a high speed engine failure he still managed to take 5 minutes to chat to us and my excited daughter, he was dead chuffed about the poster she had made and was generally a top, all round guy, even his team said as much about him
So, a big thank you Tom!
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