Redirect and Bookmark ALVAROBAUTISTAFANBLOG.COM

Just to let you know that there will be no more posting here on this page - from now on the BatiFan Blog resides as a fully featured site at AlvaroBautistaFanBlog.com so please make sure you get browsing there instead and that you bookmark the new site.

Oh, and it's blue - all ready for 2010 ;-)

See you over there.
Cheers,
gb

Change Is Coming...

The BatiFan Blog has looked a lot like it does now for a long long time.
Since it started to be honest...
Okay we have had the odd lick of paint and the occasional refinement but it's remained largely the same ever since it was set up to help share the news and activities of the BatiFans Alvaro Bautista Global Fan Community and the AlvaroBautista.co.uk Fan Site...

Now, though, with Alvaro's step up into the top class it's probably time for a definite change - so I'm looking at a number of ideas; both in terms of structure and ongoing content management (as well as in layout and design / branding) to take us into the 2010 season.

So, in the coming days and weeks you can expect a few disruptions while I mess with the domain at a deep and dirty level.

If there's news to break or trivia or downloads to share then we'll do our best, but hopefully soon you'll see a whole new site here - one that's fully equipped and worthy of taking us forward in supporting Bati in his MotoGP adventure with Rizla Suzuki.

gb

Scott Redding 2010 Campaign - Spreading The Word Further

I've just completed a marathon creative dev and build that was a one-day intensive project that I’m dead chuffed with. It’s going to require ongoing development and maintenance, but it’s a good cause and totally worth it.

Basically it’s furthering the work of the pimping of Scott Redding’s campaign to get a 2010 Moto2 ride that I publicised previously. It’s a website called "Scott Redding 2010" and it aims to push publicity and interaction with the cause way beyond Facebook. With the “Scott Redding 2010” project I delivered a website for the Scott Redding Supporters Club to help focus attention on their mission outside of the Facebook environment where it had largely operated before. Whilst over 300 million people use Facebook, over 6.7 billion people use the internet as a whole so it made sense to ensure that the campaign to try and secure Scott a Moto2 ride for the 2010 MotoGP season reached as broad an audience as possible.

The site will serve as an ongoing news magazine to cover events and fundraising activities run by the Supporters Club, to ensure as many internet users as possible find out about the cause and to enable easy access to instant online donation mechanisms.
Like I say, a good cause, and hopefully one that will engage all those many potential fans and supporters who don’t use Facebook.

Please share the news and the link, and ideally make a donation too if you can - Scott’s a superb rider and *anything* that can be done to move his career forward is a good cause.

Support Scott Redding's 2010 Bid By Helping With His Fundraiser

As readers will know, although this is fundamentally an Alvaro-related blog it's a place where I'll occasionally go off-topic to help promote a worthy cause.
And if you have a couple of minutes, then that's what I'll do now...

It has been announced that there will be a fundraising event early next year which aims to raise money to help top Brit talent Scott Redding get some kind of Moto2 ride for 2010.

Scott, who's had a bit of pig of a final 125cc season really - a rough and undeservedly unrewarding time for someone so hugely gifted and committed - so far has nothing lined up, and as I'm also the boss of MotoGP Brits I'll take this opportunity to spread the word and pimp the fundraiser, and to say that I hope sincerely that the event can help make a serious contribution to supporting his efforts.

The Fundraising event will take place at Bransons Motorcycles in Gloucester and will include an auction where they will be auctioning off his helmet, leathers, gloves,boots and other items. Scott will be there to meet people and sign autographs. Tickets are £10 and can be purchased through the Scott Redding supporters club on Facebook or can be purchased on the day.

Click here for more information on the Facebook group page...

Please help support one of our top Brit riders in pursuing his career!


FULL DETAILS:

Scott Redding supporters club fundraiser.
Date - Saturday 16 January
Time - 17:30 to 23:00
Location - Bransons Motorcycles,
12-14 Spinnnaker Rd,
Hempsted,
Gloucester, GL2 5FD