Quote Originally Posted by drewf View Post
What a shame that ASDA attempted to put a cloud over the event with the nonsense about CRB/DBS checks. I only wish I'd realised on the day what was in the waiver forms and how they were being processed.
It's probably a good job that they will not be organising this event next year, as the waiver forms this year were considerably more invasive and onerous than previous years, and the lack of secure processing of these has opened up ASDA to astonishing risk of prosecution for many years to come.
I have here samples of the waiver forms, most of which Susie realised were asking for too much info, and managed to prevent punters fully completing and therefore limiting the exposure to ASDA as a corporation, but also to us as a club and private individuals. However, some are fully completed as ASDA clearly intended. What's wrong with that, you may ask? Well.... since such huge store was placed on having CRB/DBS checked people in the cars to guard against the ludicrous perceived risk of a driver at 100mph+ causing moral harm to a minor in a 1 minute lap, they might have thought about what to do with the reams of PII recorded on the forms by all the clubs. When ASDA representatives collected the money periodically through the day, they specifically refused to collect the completed waivers, stating that they were 'ours to keep'.
So - we have the situation where we and the other clubs have reams of personal data on hundreds of children (and adults), including names, addresses, postcodes, date of birth, phone numbers, signatures; all positive gold to the paedophiles the H&S fools at ASDA were looking to keep out.
At least we still have them, and I can deal with them appropriately. What did the other clubs do with them? Bin them at the circuit? Take them away to bin at home? Who actually has them now.... They must be securely disposed of, not dumped in a public bin, but whilst we have a stack of them here, we can't influence the other 90% of the forms in existence from the other gates.
It's a serious breach of data protection, contains masses of data likely to put hundreds of children at risk, (and adults of identity theft), and sufficient to have proper conversations with the ASDA legal department. I will do that via my contacts at the ICO next week.
For the record, I have the sheets in a safe, SportsMaserati and members at the event are not at risk. I will be handing them directly to the ICO in due course for them to decide what action to take.
You may take from this that my strongly held view is that when a clot treads on a charity day with heavy boots in a half-hearted style at the last moment, causing nothing but grief, they need to stand up and take responsibility for their frankly stupid and unnecessary intervention.
Thanks for the message earlier Drew. One of my drivers sent me lots of docco on the checks and I tried to get Asda to reverse their decision before the day but they would not. I was going to say that I took all of my forms to the portacabin when I left but but I have found some more today in my "asda" box. I will put them in my safe and try and find a shredder. I will pass your info onto the chaps and ladies of my club.
Was great to spend some time with some of you Friday night in the bar. My head was not very good Saturday morning.
Sorry to see your clutch failed Mark. We certainly heard you before that. That DB output is mental. The GTR failed with transmission problems. He tried some resets with a laptop and gave up.
The track was loads better but two of our cars will need their windscreens replacing now.
Driving standards do still seem to be an issue. I am going to try and summarise the briefing we have in the morning so I can email it before the event. It is too rushed on the day. I will be getting in-car footage from the day and will probably see the events mentioned on here. We do have a new driver who is very fast, very experienced but maybe a bit over exuberant. I did send him out with one our best drivers for a sighting lap to try and make sure he understood it is a bit of fun. I am happy to discuss with Andy or Drew anything that took place on the day and improve things for next year. He did also try to apologise to the drivers he upset which is something.
I did see a lot of cars overtaking on the right and the chap in the blue jacket was telling a lot off. One of our drivers was blocked by (IIRC) a VX220 hogging the white line on the left so overtook on the right. What would you do? Perhaps this needs picking up in the briefing next year?
Overall a great event again and a pleasure to be next to your club.
Thanks Dave; posts like this can only help to smooth the relations between disparate car clubs. There will always be differences between the performance of dissimilar cars but events like this help to heal the differences between different drivers. Thanks again.
