Win Paddock Passes!

Posted on Thursday 12 Feb 2009 and tagged with corporate, csr.

Formula One fans are being given an unprecedented opportunity to experience a European Grand Prix of their choice from within the Formula One paddock as guests of one of the teams. Williams will be hosting the two lucky winners at the team’s home Grand Prix at Silverstone on 21st June.

For nine consecutive weeks from Monday 9 February, fans can choose their favourite European Grand Prix and bid for a pair of exclusive paddock passes, including team hospitality, normally reserved for sponsors and VIP guests.  The auction will take place on www.tomprycememorial.com and all the money raised will go to create a permanent memorial to Tom Pryce in his home town of Ruthin, North Wales.

Tom Pryce was the greatest Welshman ever to race a Grand Prix car, combining natural speed with sensational car control that invited comparisons with legends such as Jochen Rindt and Ronnie Peterson.  He is best remembered for becoming the only Welshman to have won a Formula One race, the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch in 1975, on a day when his pace was simply sensational. Tragically he was killed in a freak accident during the 1977 South African Grand Prix, at just 27 years of age.

The Tom Pryce Memorial Trust would like to thank Bernie Ecclestone and the Formula One teams for their generous support in providing the paddock passes and hospitality.  

The teams will be hosting hospitality as follows:

Spain - 10 May- McLaren Mercedes
Monaco - 24 May - Force India
Turkey - 7 June - Toyota
Great Britain - 21 June - Williams
Germany - 12 July - Renault
Hungary - 26 July - BMW Sauber
Valencia - 23 August - Toro Rosso
Belgium - 30 August - Red Bull Racing
Italy (11-13 September)        Ferrari

For more information please contact Ben Sayer at Prodrive: bsayer@prodrive.com