OUT AND ABOUT WITH OUR SPONSORS

We’ve enjoyed some fantastic events, out and about with our sponsors this year. Each of our partnerships is unique, and we love finding new ways to activate the sponsorship and get the very most for our supporters. Here’s some 2022 highlights.

SILVERSTONE CLASSIC WITH ADRIAN FLUX

The Silverstone Classic is an iconic 3-day event held over the August bank holiday weekend.

Our sponsors Adrian Flux attended the event to promote their consumer insurance services and we took along our Mclaren and our drivers to meet their customers and share our story.

DAF FAMILY DAY

The Leyland Trucks factory in Preston is where many of DAF’s trucks are built, including those just like Team BRIT’s very own DAF XG+, that has delivered our cars safely to circuits all over the UK this year. This August, the first family fun day since the pandemic was held at the site, with over 4000 staff and their families attending. Guests were able to see inside the facility and watch where the trucks are made, whilst also enjoying a wide variety of entertainment. Joining the display of historic trucks were our Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT4 and BMW M240i. On hand to talk to guests were our truckie, Rob Wilshire and Driver Chris Overend.

CDW TOUR

In July, GT4 driver Aaron Morgan, went on a tour of the CDW offices with our Mclaren 570S GT4.

Aaron, who works as a solutions specialist for CDW took the McLaren, our simulator and some fellow drivers on tour to CDW offices in Manchester, Peterborough, London and Rugby to tell their teams more about our work.

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A FITTING END TO A STUNNING SEASON

On the 28th October, we welcomed a small group of friends and sponsors to an end of season celebration at the recently opened Hilton Garden Inn, Silverstone.

The hotel is a formal partner of the team, with HGI branding seen across our fleet of racing cars.

The evening was an opportunity to reflect and celebrate on what has been the most successful year in the team’s history.

Drivers, management, crew and sponsors, came together for a delicious meal, with inputs and presentations from Commercial Director Mike Scudamore, who gave a round-up of each of our championships, followed by a Q&A with our drivers.

Mike explains: “We really couldn’t finish the year without a celebration of the amazing achievements we have accomplished this year. “What our drivers and crew have managed is quite incredible, but these aren’t just our achievements, they’re only possible with the help, support and belief of our partners and sponsors.

“It was wonderful therefore to welcome everyone to the beautiful Hilton Garden Inn at Silverstone. The hotel team have been hugely supportive so far and hosted us perfectly. Guests enjoyed a fantastic meal and drinks reception and rooms with stunning views over the iconic track.

“I’d like to thank everyone who came along and made the evening so special, and look forward to hosting more team events at the Hilton Garden Inn next year.”

PAUL FULLICK’S INCREDIBLE EFFORTS FOR UKRAINE

Paul Fullick is not only a rookie driver for Team BRIT, a business owner and an all-round workaholic, he’s also the chair and trustee of an incredible charity, set up in response to the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

At the start of the crisis, Paul was asked to join a community meeting with the aim of exploring ways to get supplies to Ukraine. With Paul’s logistics experience, they wanted his advice around transport and driving in Europe.

What started as an aid run of 12 vans, soon became a complex and sophisticated transport and logistics set-up, with Paul and his team now working as ‘Ukraine Sunflower Aid’ and regularly transporting tonnes of crucial supplies to Ukraine and refugee sites in Poland.

Paul explains: “In our first run, we took 12 vans out full of crucial supplies. We took everything from blankets, nappies and toothpaste to canned foods and clothing, and delivered it to an incredible organisation in Poland that then sorted donations to help the thousands of migrants transiting into the country from Ukraine and onward across Europe. It was breath-taking to witness what they were managing to achieve.

As more money was coming in and the scale of what we were doing increased, we realised we should become a charity, so Ukraine Sunflower Aid was formed, and I became the chair and a trustee. A great team of people gave up their time to help with admin, accounts, fundraising and logistics.

As we planned each trip, we learnt more, and we realised that the team in Poland had a problem with people donating things they didn’t actually need. Large organisations could get them what they asked for, but it would be slow. We knew we could move fast, so we began speaking with our contacts regularly, finding out what the urgent need was and getting it to them within a week.

We teamed up with other charities and formed a collective of people that we trust, setting up really effective flows of supplies. As the refugee influx slowed in Poland, the need in for aid in-land in both Poland and Ukraine stepped up. Hospitals and food banks were in desperate need of supplies.

We therefore got together with a logistics company that brings goods from Poland to UK and agreed that we would pay for their fuel if they would take our aid back to Poland on their homeward run. That became a really good way of getting bulk loads of aid out there, much more than we could manage with our vans.

We were contacted by someone buying a refrigerated truck who wanted to take frozen goods out to Ukraine but needed a driver. They now let us use it and we can fill it with medical supplies as well as their food, which we drive out to where it’s needed most. Lately, we’ve also taken large quantities of ventilators out to Ukrainian hospitals.

To date, we’ve delivered 24 tonnes of humanitarian aid via van and over 440 tonnes via HGV.

I’ve been so lucky to have received incredible help from Team BRIT. Right from the initial idea, Dave Player was keen to help, instantly lending us a team van for our runs. My fellow driver Chris Overend has also joined me on an aid run, sharing the driving.

My sponsors support me in everything I do, not just my driving for the team. I asked my friends and sponsors at QAV Global for the loan of a van. They didn’t just say yes, they said yes – but they’ll also pay for the fuel, the ferry crossings, the tolls, and they’ll provider a driver!

My sponsors Carbon Fibre Tubes didn’t have a van, so they supplied a person! My brother and their chief engineer who joined me on aid runs.

If anyone would like to help us in our continued efforts, it would be wonderful to receive financial donations via our Just Giving page. This then helps us gather and transport the right supplies at the right time. We set out with the goal of raising a few thousand pounds and sending over one van. We’ve now raised more than £80,000 and it keeps coming. It’s amazing what you can do as a team.”