BUSK outlines plans for Ladies Driving Challenge

BUSK – Belt Up School Kids – has announced details of its major fundraising event for 2003 - the Ladies Driving Challenge.

The event is to be held at The Army Training Base, Caerwent, South Wales over the weekend 26-27 July. Entrants must hold a current car driving licence, pay the £5 entry fee and raise a minimum sponsorship of £75. The lady raising the most money will win a day at the Jonathan Palmer Motorsport Sensation in Bedfordshire for them and their partner or friend, where they will be invited to race several high performance racing cars as fast as they dare - in complete safety.

The Ladies Driving Challenge is a skills test - for fun of course but nevertheless challenging. For example, entrants may be asked to drive in and out of cones and then reverse through them - but in what type of vehicle? It may be a car, but then again it may be something bigger! Competitors may also be challenged, for example, to reverse a vehicle up onto a car transporter.

Following this, there’s the Pit Stop Challenge - each lady is given just ten minutes to identify as many visual faults as possible on three different vehicles.

Finally, the main challenge – the ladies will get behind the wheel in some serious vehicles including fire engines, double decker buses, coaches, bin lorries, fuel tankers, supermarket juggernauts, emergency recovery breakdown vehicles or maybe even a JCB!

Every driver will be supervised by a driver/instructor at all times and a 15mph speed limit is imposed for safety reasons. Car licences need to be brought on the day.

Anyone can arrive on either day without prior registration and take pot luck but BUSK strongly recommends that people should book in advance and have a place reserved as only 100 places are available each day.

To find out more contact Pat Harris at BUSK 01633 274944 or email: busk.beltupschoolkids@btopenworld.com