Hello,
I'm going to record a video about this, but figured I'd post up here first as you guys and girls are the backbone of Retro Rides and everything we do.
With this year being so all over the place and the advice from government being a bit vague we took the chance to swap in to the Festival Of Speed Weekend, knowing that we may have to cancel outright if we couldn't do that weekend, but hopeful that we would be able to. Subsequently the 4th of July guidance for some hospitality to open gave us a great deal of hope. Sadly we've not had much more detail than that, and there has been no real guidance on numbers of people that can gather.
We spoke to Goodwood yesterday and they are as in the dark as we are (sadly). However with the cancellation of Revival more September dates opened up at the circuit and they offered us one of those, figuring it would be a more likely date that we'd be able to run our full event, rather than trimming down the event in order to cope with current guidance. I was pretty keen to keep the dates in July but said I'd go away and have a think. After a walk and a chat with my lovely wife, I had a call with bstardchild (who runs our track side of things), and then this morning Keith (who co-runs the events). We all agreed that we could run in July (if the government let us), but at this point the event would be better if we ran in September. If there is one thing we will always try to do it is to run a better event, than just having any old event.
So our new dates for Retro Rides Weekender 2020 are : Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September (with camping from the Friday, and the extension available to take it through to Monday).
If people can't make the dates we will refund your tickets.
We are VERY sorry to be moving the event around again and potentially messing up plans. This has not been a decision taken lightly and we hope to never be in this situation again.
I'm going to record a video about this, but figured I'd post up here first as you guys and girls are the backbone of Retro Rides and everything we do.
With this year being so all over the place and the advice from government being a bit vague we took the chance to swap in to the Festival Of Speed Weekend, knowing that we may have to cancel outright if we couldn't do that weekend, but hopeful that we would be able to. Subsequently the 4th of July guidance for some hospitality to open gave us a great deal of hope. Sadly we've not had much more detail than that, and there has been no real guidance on numbers of people that can gather.
We spoke to Goodwood yesterday and they are as in the dark as we are (sadly). However with the cancellation of Revival more September dates opened up at the circuit and they offered us one of those, figuring it would be a more likely date that we'd be able to run our full event, rather than trimming down the event in order to cope with current guidance. I was pretty keen to keep the dates in July but said I'd go away and have a think. After a walk and a chat with my lovely wife, I had a call with bstardchild (who runs our track side of things), and then this morning Keith (who co-runs the events). We all agreed that we could run in July (if the government let us), but at this point the event would be better if we ran in September. If there is one thing we will always try to do it is to run a better event, than just having any old event.
So our new dates for Retro Rides Weekender 2020 are : Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th September (with camping from the Friday, and the extension available to take it through to Monday).
If people can't make the dates we will refund your tickets.
We are VERY sorry to be moving the event around again and potentially messing up plans. This has not been a decision taken lightly and we hope to never be in this situation again.
