Classic 2CV Racing Club

Message from Martin Harrold:

"Some of us have been working on plans for promotion of various Club events in '09. One task has involved selecting a title for the 20th Celebration weekend at Mallory Park in May.

That involves a 2CVGB meet all weekend, a track day on the Saturday and a BARC race meeting with two 2CV races on the Sunday. We wanted a catchy title, and have narrowed it down to the following possibilities."

Please vote for your favourite!

1) 'Classic 2CVs In The Park'
Celebrating 20 years of Citroen 2CV racing

2) '2CVs In The Park'
Celebrating 20 years of racing classic Citroen 2CVs

3) 'Pilotes In The Park'
Celebrating 20 years of racing classic Citroen 2CVs

Please vote using the poll feature at the top of the page. If you have any other suggestions, please feel free to post them!

What About
'Brie in the Park'
Sub title 'French Classic 2cv race festival'

Or
'2cv Jubilee'

It rhymes and rolls of the tongue well. :P

Andrew:

Good, good, keep on thinking. We've run into a bit of a problem with the event title. Clearly 'Classic 2CV's In the Park' is favourite. But, John Ward at Mallory said today that there is an event already on his calendar called 'PPC In The Park', which is just two weeks after ours. That is sponsored by a magazine and will get a lot of promotional publicity. As they are so close, he'd rather that we came up with another title to avoid any possible confusion.

Oddly, he's never heard of anyone before calling any event there ' . . . . . In The Park'. It's just an annoying coincidence that someone else got there first.

How about 'Classic 2CVs By The Lake'?

I've added 3 more options to the poll, based on latest suggestions..

So if anyone wants to change vote - you may do so above!

could we get some car stickers as we did for the 10 year aniversary?

heres one, 

'Duck Lake'

play on words of 'swan lake'?

TPV in the Park.

As it's a celebration of 2cv racing for 20 years, shouldn't the word "racing" appear in the title somewhere?

Got to agree with Nigel, why not just call it the 2cv Racing 20th anniversary meeting, afterall, thats what it is

doesn't exactly roll off the tongue though trev.

Majestic Racing 2CV's at Mallory,
or
Mighty Racing 2CV's at Mallory ?

As everyone seems to be pitching in, indicating that the top-of-the-page suggestions aren't judged good enough, here are some I made earlier...
THE FRENCH CONNECTION LIVES!
A celebration of 20-years of UK 2CV racing
VIVE 2CV RACING!
20-years of wheel-to-wheel thrills
MALLORY AND SWERVING*
20-years of 2CVs-the summit of one-make racing

Obviously the strapline would be in large type, possibly caps as indicated, with the sub-head in upper & lower case, so it would all balance out...
* Mallory and Irving, geddit? Probably a bit obscure for modern tastes

QuoteVIVE 2CV RACING!
20-years of wheel-to-wheel thrills

I think this says it all - good to have the words racing and 2CV in the title

I thought we were looking for something not "in the park" now.My two favourites would have to be andy's "2cv jubilee" and franks "vive 2cv racing"

If 2CVGB are going to arrange a biggish camping weekend meet and we are going to have a Saturday track day pretty much for all-comers and we are hopefully going to have a good number of guest 2CV's and other Citroens there over the w/e and we are going to have some serious full grid 2CV races on the Sunday then I had in mind that the title should try to embrace all that good stuff going on.

Hence, '2CV's Around The Lake' has a little intrique to it and generally works quite well as a headline. The quest for an event title has got some good discussion going, which is very healthy. No doubt Sir will shortly make the final choice - he's now got plenty of suggestions to choose from.

<I thought we were looking for something not "in the park" now>

Yes, I know, but it was so close to T in the Park that I couldn't resist it. A bit on the obscure side though.

Quite like the "Vive 2CV Racing!" one.

Will we all have to learn the Marseillaise?

Bien sur Derek.

Aubrey and I had a chat today.

Proposed by Derek, Mary and Frank and possibly others, something with Vive in it seems to have emerged as the best of the many ideas put forward.

So, we propose 'Vive La 2CV' as the event title, with the strap line 'A Celebration of 20 years of racing Classic 2CV's'

Everyone happy with that? One detail to be sorted by the Francophiles amongst you is, is it Le or La?

La

La

Sounds good to me martin.

Me too.

Yep, I think that's the best one

Shouldn't that be Vive les 2CV?

No, because it's a thing rather than two horses (I did wonder about this, too...). And there's three of them, really.

La  La  le  La  La, La  La  le  La  La, La  La  le  La  La, La  La  le  La  La

Merry Christmas all.

La  La  le  La  La, La  La  le  La  La, La  La  le  La  La, La  La  le  La  La

If the Club chooses VIVE LA 2CV I still think it needs a subhead stressing racing, i.e summat like 20 Years Of Racing Thrills

Our car, which we bought from Jon Davis, has a sticker in the windscreen which says "2CV Racing, Big Thrills, Small Bills!" and this really sums it up. If we are trying to persuade others to take up 2CV racing then this is a great slogan, especially in these times of financial hardship.

Yes, Mary, but I thought we were trying to celebrate twenty years?

I just thought we might incorporate the sentiment in the new slogan.

As has been debated over many an alcoholic beverage over the years, the bills are no longer as small as they used to be

Like the idea of a 20th aniversary window sticker though

Trevor, the bills are much smaller than they are in other series, Morgans for example. I still think it is a good way to get potential new competitors' attention. The financial squeeze might actually benefit the 2CV series.