Have you ever won anything?

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….£400 yesterday on the Premium Bonds, £320 in July & £1,200 in June..

Loads of footy stuff, but anybody else on here got an Echo Cup winners medal? If you went to St Thomas Becket it was me who scored 7 against you in one of the early rounds and I still have a scar on my shin from that game.
 
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Used to go to New Brighton with my dad as a kid to watch the annual Sprint trophy along the promenade. Seeing the power of the cars and the spectator lined roads always got to me...i loved it and always wanted a go. Served my time as an engineer and played around with cars...up until this day i guess😆 Anyway i knew the Sprints days were numbered due to H&S so joined a motor club and started competing in lowly club events to get a feel for it before i finally applied to do the New Brighton one, my old man was made up bless him. The day came and i was bricking it...loads of spectators and my old man watching me, and my bottle went as soon as saw how close the final turn was to the sea wall😅 Also feeling a bit down at heel surrounded by motorhomes and huge car trailers with mechanics prepping opponnents cars,i'd driven my car there with 25 litres of fuel in the footwell, a packet of butties and my skid lid....wore my race suit as well to save changing in the bogs there😃 Practice runs started and i was a mile off the pace, i mean it was horrific. A bit better as the timed runs started but still 3 seconds off a trophy i'd have died for. Final run came and it started raining just beforehand. All the other cars were swapping tyres and prepping for it. All i could think of was to soften my car up by letting some air out of the tyres, and i disconnected the rear anti roll bar. My turn came and in vain i truly gave it everything, just absolutley forced myself to keep on that throttle at all times, flashe under the big timing gantry at the finish and i could have sworn i'd knocked the best part of 3 seconds off my time....no chance i thought.Got back in to the paddock to learn i'd snatched 3rd in class and a trophy. Now i've won other little things in my time but to get this little Silver Tankard really was special to me at such a venue. I can only imagine how an F1 driver feels actually winning his home GP, I was buzzing for weeks20240803_103903.webp winning this🤣 Jeez, 25 years ago now.
 
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Used to go to New Brighton with my dad as a kid to watch the annual Sprint trophy along the promenade. Seeing the power of the cars and the spectator lined roads always got to me...i loved it and always wanted a go. Served my time as an engineer and played around with cars...up until this day i guess😆 Anyway i knew the Sprints days were numbered due to H&S so joined a motor club and started competing in lowly club events to get a feel for it before i finally applied to do the New Brighton one, my old man was made up bless him. The day came and i was bricking it...loads of spectators and my old man watching me, and my bottle went as soon as saw how close the final turn was to the sea wall😅 Also feeling a bit down at heel surrounded by motorhomes and huge car trailers with mechanics prepping opponnents cars,i'd driven my car there with 25 litres of fuel in the footwell, a packet of butties and my skid lid....wore my race suit as well to save changing in the bogs there😃 Practice runs started and i was a mile off the pace, i mean it was horrific. A bit better as the timed runs started but still 3 seconds off a trophy i'd have died for. Final run came and it started raining just beforehand. All the other cars were swapping tyres and prepping for it. All i could think of was to soften my car up by letting some air out of the tyres, and i disconnected the rear anti roll bar. My turn came and in vain i truly gave it everything, just absolutley forced myself to keep on that throttle at all times, flashe under the big timing gantry at the finish and i could have sworn i'd knocked the best part of 3 seconds off my time....no chance i thought.Got back in to the paddock to learn i'd snatched 3rd in class and a trophy. Now i've won other little things in my time but to get this little Silver Tankard really was special to me at such a venue. I can only imagine how an F1 driver feels actually winning his home GP, I was buzzing for weeksView attachment 267456 winning this🤣 Jeez, 25 years ago now.
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Brilliant that👍
 


The missus won us a 4 night stay in Jersey with flights & spending money from a women's magazine competition. Decent hotel by the looks of it too. Got it all booked up for early summer the next year as it had to be taken within 12 months of the win.
A few months later covid happened. Jersey didn't reopen for tourists until a few days after our scheduled dates & the magazine wouldn't rebook our holiday so we lost our prize except for the £200 spending money which was sent after the initial booking.
 

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