I was not made aware that it was to be the 2CV 24hr race when the calendar was set... that race does indeed start at 1700 on Saturday and it is a 2 day meeting.
Now...in a conversation with BARC about this, it is the case that at present they have scheduled us for all events on the Saturday. They envisaged that we would not want 4 sessions in one day as that would indeed be very 'Crowded House' However they have room in the timnetable to give us 4 sessions each on that day OR>>>> we could even have one quali on the Friday 'evening'....
Having just registered on the BARC website (now possible!) I note that they list the event as 26 - 28th. I.e. Fri - Sun, so perhaps they are already planning some official action on the Friday.....
...well, as it is a 24 hr race they have to have some dusk and night qualifying [ie Snetterton will once more vibrate to the sound of Dorniers...]therefore they can only run that on Friday and thus I imagine we could have a quali session on the Friday from about 1800 IF we wanted to do that...sometimes we have to make the best of a 'bad lot'... Equally we have to decide if we still pursue the social function on Saturday after the races; we would at least have some slow moving targets for the discarded bread rolls, or even the odd spare-rib with plenty of sauce could be well-aimed....