SupercarFest - Shelsley Walsh - July 20th

[Steve C]

Dave

If Robin cannot get his car ready I will like to put mine forward - could do with stretching its legs locally(ish) after the winter hibernation.


Steve

[STR_Strat]

Well after taking a day off to prep and clean the car I was a little disappointed to wake up to rain early Saturday morning, but the forecast wasn't too bad so it was an early start to get to Shelsley for just after 8. By the time we arrived the sun was shining and we made our way to our allotted garage in the paddock, clearly when Shelsley Hill Climb paddock was built, cars in general were much narrower. I think we had about 20mm either side of the arches.
Steve was already parked up when we arrived and there was already a small crowd gathering to take pictures and ask questions about the cars, lots of interest as they were somewhat different to the mainstream SuperCars that were there, if you had just bought your shiney new McClaren and expected to stand out at this event, you would have been disappointed, get a Strat instead
The format for the day was simple, park up, sign on, collect your tokens and start queuing up with all the exotica for a blast up the hill or 6:roll eyes: We had 3 runs each, but at the end of the day when the tokens ran out you could blag a few more goes, it was generally very relaxed.



https://youtu.be/hjOi6gSp7Zo

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Dave

[Normb666]

Dave and Steve, thanks for representing the Club at the do! Dave, the car looked pretty quick in the vid, impressive! Hadn't realised how many McLarens they've made though, or was every single one of them there??

Sounds like you had a good day, any idea if they'll be running it again next year? Hopefully I'll be able to get along if so (was on one of those steam train days out over the Settle-Carlisle yesterday - very enjoyable, but probably not as fast...)

Cheers!

Norm