There are basically just two things you need to make it in the world of insurance. One is a mile-wide competitive streak. There other, clearly, is a blazer.
But on certain special days of the year, even the blazer is optional. One such opportunity for informality occurs when the great and the good of the motor insurance market gather somewhere near Grantham to race karts. The name of that opportunity is Insurance Endurance.
And who better to fill you in on all details, you’re probably thinking, than Bankstone News!
You’re right, of course, who better indeed! But given that time waits for no man (nor woman neither) and that – even as we write this – they’ve already been serving at the Badgers for the best part of an hour, we’re going to leave that task to Insurance Business UK (a sort of a disintermediated news website that largely dispenses with the distorting lens of journalism to deliver the pure undiluted truth, direct from the original press release).
Here’s how IBUK reported on the happy day this summer when insurance people will once set aside their habitual commercial rivalries (and their blazers) to buzz around a lengthy twisting stretch of tyre-lined tarmac for literally hours on end:
Insurers’ day to ditch the blazer and don racing suits
It’s a competitive industry all right, but who said people in insurance can’t enjoy themselves while trying to outdo each other? All in the name of good clean fun, of course.
With everyday work feeling like a race to the top, here’s a literal race that insurance workers can participate in – a six-hour endurance kart race happening at the UK’s largest outdoor karting circuit. Teams of between four and eight drivers get to compete in Sodi GT5 karts at the PFI Racetrack in Grantham.
Insurance Endurance, aside from being a creative means to network with industry peers, also serves as a fundraising event for The Insurance Charities, whose beneficiaries are insurance employees in the UK and Ireland.
“We’re delighted to be chosen as the nominated charity for this event,” said marketing and communications executive Emma Bangar. “We welcome the opportunity to meet people working in insurance face-to-face and to tell them about The Insurance Charities and how we are able to help and support those working in this industry.”
The event, which has a practice round prior to the race, will also feature the pit stop challenge, wherein teams change the tyres of a Formula 1 car in the quickest time possible before returning to the endurance track.
More than 80 drivers took part in last year’s edition. Insurance Endurance 2018 happens on June 26.
He’d rather be karting!
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