Ziggy Shadow-Dust
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It came to my attention when I recently downloaded Nigel Mansell's Touring Car Year 98 from Duke's website, and while watching it got to a point where at the end of the Brands Hatch meeting, two spectators (I think) got our Nige to sign bits of his broken Ford Mondeo bodywork that came off during one of the weekends two crashes.
So the questions are, who here has been to a race meeting (BTCC or otherwise) and had themselves, or seen others take home a racecars broken wing-mirror or back bumper or what-have-you as a souvenir? Is there a policy about the salvaging of jetisoned bodywork at a race event from the organisers or amongst the spectators themselves? Track marshalls bringing in a back bumper from a dangerous part of the track and it simply first-come first-served as to who standing near by at the wants to claim it as a souvenir?
So the questions are, who here has been to a race meeting (BTCC or otherwise) and had themselves, or seen others take home a racecars broken wing-mirror or back bumper or what-have-you as a souvenir? Is there a policy about the salvaging of jetisoned bodywork at a race event from the organisers or amongst the spectators themselves? Track marshalls bringing in a back bumper from a dangerous part of the track and it simply first-come first-served as to who standing near by at the wants to claim it as a souvenir?