Thursday 7 July 2016

The Supercar Event at Dunsfold

What is Seven ownership all about?!?  Meeting up with some mates (Tom yellow car, Andy holding the camera) and going sideways for an entire Saturday, burning through AVON CR500 tyres like they're going out of fashion!
What owning a Seven is all about - having a blast with your mates and going siiiiddeeewaaayyys!
What owning a Seven is all about - having a blast with your mates and going siiiiddeeewaaayyys!
There was a genuine 'good cause' for all of this sideways madness - the event were we at was 'The Supercar Event' at Dunsfold which is held over two days with all proceeds being given to The Childrens Trust charity.... We (Tom, Andy and I) only attended on the Saturday, but we had epic fun!

The Caterham part of the event was organised by Neil Kaemena and crew with spaces for around ten cars on both the Saturday and Sunday... We arrived about 8:30am for the safety briefing and had an hour or so without passengers to get a feel for the grip levels (which were high!) and to try and get the cars setup as best as possible for minimum rear end grip.
The cars ready for action first thing
The cars ready for action first thing
The charge for a ride in the Caterhams was £20, and for that the passengers got a good four or five minute blast... Which consisted of donuts, some tire smoking, accelerating, more donuts and more tire smoking... With all the noise, smoke and shenanigans we were making the queue for tickets began to build up quite quickly.
The queue for tickets began to build up quite quickly.
The queue for tickets began to build up quite quickly.
A group of volunteers would assist the paying passengers into the next ready car, picture below is of me helping a suitably unsuspecting passenger into their seat!

Helping a suitably unsuspecting passenger into the seat.
Helping a suitably unsuspecting passenger into the seat.
I put together a video using some different angles and so on... There's a thirty seven second donut, some nice 11's being laid and general hooning about, so I hope you enjoy it - if you do, please like / thumbs up :-)

Everyone was grinning from ear to ear after their experiences -  (as you can see from the picture below).  Over the course of the weekend in excess of four hundred  tickets were sold, which at £20 a time is over £8,000 raised for Charity - which goes straight to The Childrens Trust and was a record for both days.
Another happy passenger!
Another happy passenger!
Dave Clarke from the Lotus7 group put together this great collection of pictures and video clips from the entire weekends' action, which I thought I'd share too:-


1 comment:

  1. Long time no see, Daniel

    Is this a charity of the circuit events?

    It is very fun, I also wanted to participate If you stay in your country! !

    A good time! Than Makoto

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