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All the talk about the helicopters as well as car and ground traffic for the Silverstone event reminded me of a video I watched some months ago on TV coverage of the Tour De France. The logistics behind moving all those people from...

Sorry Roger no it is not Exeter

That was the source of my confusion, newfangled measuring system. Had me thinking the country was a few hundred miles longer than it is. :)

Is Exeter one of them?

All the talk about the helicopters as well as car and ground traffic for the Silverstone event reminded me of a video I watched some months ago on TV coverage of the Tour De France. The logistics behind moving all those people from...

I was in Staithes on Wednesday and walked through a Thunderstorm with a hail accompaniment back up the hill for the bus to Whitby by the time I got there Whitby was bathed in sunshine . Whilst in Staithes I met a group doing the...

they look like flies on the windscreen! The choppers from Turweston didn't fly over us unless they had to re-route due to crowding, there's another airfield at Hinton in the Hedges a few miles to the west (left)

I see what you mean

I lived in a small town called Brackley near Silverstone for 17 years. During the first part of that time every year when the British Grand Prix was on, just 6 miles down the road, the main road through town and town centre came to a...

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Watch out Barry, he's a big fella:oops:

I lived in a small town called Brackley near Silverstone for 17 years. During the first part of that time every year when the British Grand Prix was on, just 6 miles down the road, the main road through town and town centre came to a...

That was the source of my confusion, newfangled measuring system. Had me thinking the country was a few hundred miles longer than it is. :)

My mistake the distance is about 540 miles, I was looking in Km

In the UK Rick