Close Shave With "Blues and Twos"

[Dieselman]

Still, on a private runway last Sunday managed 160 in my wife's Boxster, and a friend in a RUF R Turbo managed 200mph.....incredible.

Gotta give it to them Germans!

This has to be at Bruntingthorpe.

I rang them to ask about a GTG there but it's a bit pricey.

What was it like, worth the money.

 

[BimMerc]

Up a dual carriageway northbound from Cheltenham. Doing approx 125 spotted a white van with tinted side window on the bridge above, slammed the anchors pulled in behind a coach, cruised by at 60.... lovely

 

[GrahamC230K]

This has to be at Bruntingthorpe.

I rang them to ask about a GTG there but it's a bit pricey.

What was it like, worth the money.

What sort of pricey??

I am sure divided between a dozen or so of us, there would be enough interest from the speed hungary gang?

My car seems run in since Germany, I want another top speed run!!

 

[pammy]

Is this the Bruntingthorpe in Leic's? If so - I'd deffo be interested - only a spit from the MIL and both Hub's n me have been saying how great it would be to have a go somewhere safe

 

[mapleleaf]

I'd be interested too ..

 

[rushscored4]

Yeah - me too! I need a new set of tyres for the C32 so I might as well see off the current ones off in style!

 

[GregE240]

This has to be at Bruntingthorpe.

I rang them to ask about a GTG there but it's a bit pricey.

What was it like, worth the money.

Yep, it was Bruntingthorpe.

Well worth the money. We had 33 cars there which worked out at around £140 each for the drivers. Bear in mind that was an all day price.

Its great fun, loads of run off so safe as houses. I speak from experience (backwards in a Ferrari 348 is not recommended for the faint hearted).

Could work out better if everyone was interested if we booked the ground for a morning, then went for a pub lunch afterwards. My concern with saloon cars doing that sort of thing is brakes - they will get cooked. Simple as that. At the run last month we had a Brabus SV12 which cooked its brakes in no time at all.

Thoughts, anyone? I'm happy to look into arranging something.

 

[GrahamC230K]

Brakes and tyres will cook with intensive abuse (I hear the surface is particularly bad on tyres). Personally I would only want a fairly short session to just play and see when the back breaks loose and do a few flat out runs (maybe timed)?

 

[GregE240]

Not timed as such Graham. We have had a set of lasers hooked up to speed detecting equipment at the end of the runway. You go through it and your speed appears on a giant LED screen.

 

[GrahamC230K]

I'm sold if we can have a shorter session to bring the price down a little.

Yeah, Santa Pod run what you brung is only a tenner, but you only get a 1/4 mile and this is more open and controlled.

Very interested.

Maybe we should have a new thread??

 

[rushscored4]

Like I said earlier, I'm game for a laugh but maybe you should start a new thread to get more interest?

 

[pammy]

Thread for Bruntingthorpe day

here

 

[GregE240]

Well done m'dear...we were going a tad off topic there...