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AGC JOURNAL 2016

Casino Square Monte Carlo

Waiting for the start at HMS Victory The cars start leaving HMS Victory

Rally For Heroes

2016

By Sergeant Michael Clark MBE

Rally for Heroes is a biennial those taking part cover all their own costs. Region of Germany is a fantastic way to
charity event that raises On Friday 5th August 2016 everyone get to know your vehicle with the Roman
roads and gradual bends to welcome you
congregated at the Historic Dockyard in
money for British Forces Portsmouth for the start in front of HMS into the area. From Nurburg village we
Charities by driving a Victory. Before the start we were invited on made our way onto the Autobahn network
minimum of 5 miles for each board HMS Victory for a memorial service where people were able to stretch the legs
of their cars on the unrestricted sections;
held by the Chaplin of the Fleet, The
service person that gave their Venerable Ian Wheatley. We were joined this made travelling down to Basel in
lives whilst on Operations in by the Naval Secretary, Admiral Simon Switzerland a little quicker.
Williams CBE who was able to announce
Afghanistan since 2001. that we had broken the £100,000 target, Day Three
with an amazing £118,000 raised.
Current Event Mr Rory Underwood, ex-RAF Pilot and From Basel we headed to Turin with only
England Rugby Player also gave a short around 40 miles taking place on the
speech to congratulate us on achieving so motorway; when in the Alps why not
The fourth event took place in August much over the past 18 months. Rory also enjoy the views. A trip across the Route des
2016 with 115 people and 54 vehicles that set Rally for Heroes underway. At Dover,
ranged from a Hyundai i10 through to a
McLaren MP4-12C, Lamborghini Gallardo, it was a quick load and crossing of the
Ferrari 355, Aston Martins and almost the Channel and on our way to Brussels.
entire range of TVR’s with just about every
car in between. Day Two

Our target for 2016 was to raise £100,000 We departed Brussels early and headed for
for SSAFA. Every participant was required the Infamous Nurburgring Circuit, better
to raise their own funds towards our known as ‘Green Hell’ due to the difficulty
overall total and every single penny of the circuit. We cut across the country
donated goes directly to the charity whilst to avoid as the motorways and the Eifel

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