SPAR Connell race team in SPA 25 hours
ian connell is raising money for NSPCC
Participants: Ian, Richard and Marc Connell, Peter Cate and Lars Fredrik Berg
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After running as high as 12th place in the Spa 25 hour race, we finished a slighly dissapointed 60th in the SPAR / Cuisine de France race car as the gearbox broke after 18 hours and we lost over an hour putting in a new one! A full race report by us will be online at http://www.connell-racing.co.uk/ . The race will be televised on Sky Sports TV in August. Donation can still be made up until the end of August though!
Particular thanks to Cuisine de France who have pledged an very generous £5,000 and BWG £1,000 offline. Special thanks to Appetite and Fraikin UK who have both donated £500 online and Ter-beke/Pluma £300 offline and Flair £500 offline.. Drivers were Appleby Westward Group MD and main board Director SPAR Food Distributors) Marc Connell (Designer Appetite Group) Richard Connell (Takuma Sato`s race engineer at Super Aguri F1 team) , Peter Cate (Business Development, Dow Automotive) and Lars Fredrik Berg (Ing. Fraunhofer-Institute Chemische Technologie)