Endaf Owens - British Champion

[Yellow Fever]

Anyone see Ralio+ this week and the feature on Endaf Owens from Carmarthen?
May still be showing in the next few nights if you missed it. There's Ralio footage on the Brands Hatch race here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbHY8SA7Y5I

Endaf won the Mini Miglia Championship this year, one of the most competitive racing series, with a history going back to 1966.

Endaf is very kindly supporting a charity event at Castle Combe next Saturday, where you can get in the car for a passenger ride with him. See: www.stroke.org.uk/supercarsaturday for details. 100% to charity.

Over 60 cars to choose from, £5 admission and rides from £20. Bring your own helmet if you have one but free loan available if you don't. Gates open 08:45.

[Firefoot]

Well done that man, he must be really chuffed to have won

[Yellow Fever]

Totally heroic, travelling from Carmarthen for each round meant he was driving hundreds of miles extra. Imagine the round trip to Croft for example! Self-prepared car as well, all things considered a big achievement.

Come along to Castle Combe on Saturday and get a ride in the car with him for a donation to charity: www.stroke.org.uk/supercarsaturday

[stuartalfa]

Anyone going to this at CC I will be taking 2 or 3 very excited teenagers
Should this Supercar day have it's own thread on the South Wales section?
Cheers

[Yellow Fever]

Er, dont know how to tell you this Stuart, but this IS the South Wales section

If you meant South West, then yes, and it does Quite a few people coming along for a fab day out with 100% going direct to the Stroke Association on the day.

Updated car list up at: www.stroke.org.uk/supercarsaturday

Special Guest is Slim Borgudd, the only F1 driver to have been sponsored by ABBA!

[Firefoot]

I would love to come to this but its my nieces 16th birthday on the same day. She has no interest in cars otherwise I could have paid for a go in a car as part of her birthday pressie

[stuartalfa]

Yellow Fever said:

Er, dont know how to tell you this Stuart, but this IS the South Wales section

If you meant South West, then yes, and it does Quite a few people coming along for a fab day out with 100% going direct to the Stroke Association on the day.

Updated car list up at: www.stroke.org.uk/supercarsaturday

Special Guest is Slim Borgudd, the only F1 driver to have been sponsored by ABBA!

Hi YF I did mean as a thread title in the South Wales section but Endaf Owens - British Champion is ok by me
This should be a lot of fun my lad a his chums can't wait

[Yellow Fever]

Sorry Stuart it was obvioulsy me that missed the point there...

You will have a fantastic day out. My big tip is "ask lots of questions" the drivers are all more relaxed than at a race meeting plus that's the best way to find out what's going on. Kids want to sit in a car in the paddock for a photo? Ask. Wonder what an Autosolo is and how you can take part? Ask. The day is intended to give people a chance to get closer to some great cars and terrific people than would normally be the case.

Look forward to seeing you all along on Saturday.

[stuartalfa]

Yellow Fever said:

Sorry Stuart it was obvioulsy me that missed the point there...

You will have a fantastic day out. My big tip is "ask lots of questions" the drivers are all more relaxed than at a race meeting plus that's the best way to find out what's going on. Kids want to sit in a car in the paddock for a photo? Ask. Wonder what an Autosolo is and how you can take part? Ask. The day is intended to give people a chance to get closer to some great cars and terrific people than would normally be the case.

Look forward to seeing you all along on Saturday.

Nice one YF

A few years ago at an http://www.alfaholics.com/ day at CC I had a passenger ride in an old but very fast Alfa 105 GTV & my stomach was up in the air for the rest of the day great fun.
I have done a few track days but the best one was at Donington with an instructor by my side I new then that I new nothing about what my car could do
The boys are all 15 & think they know it all I can't wait to see there faces tomorrow
Cheers YF

[Yellow Fever]

Classic, they will be on your back to buy them a race car by tomorrow night, mark my words!

[stuartalfa]

Yellow Fever said:

Classic, they will be on your back to buy them a race car by tomorrow night, mark my words!

Cheers YF have a fun day tomorrow

[Yellow Fever]

The weather forecast is great - dry all day and a high of 15C.

www.stroke.org.uk/supercarsaturday

Hope to see everyone along for a terrific day.

[Red111]

Good day out today, weather great if a bit of a cold wind! Those Radicals were insane.

[Yellow Fever]

Thanks to everyone who came along to support the event. It is a unique opportunity to get rides in a tremendous variety of cars - which calls for recognition for all those people who bring, run and drive cars all day, completely at their own cost to raise money for the Stroke Association. One of the Radical teams told me they ran 130 litres (£180 worth) of fuel through the car during the day and lost count of the number of laps they did!

My personal thanks to everyone operating event who, apart from three Stroke Association staff in the ticket office, are all volunteers who give up a day of extremely hard work to look after everyone taking part. If anyone wants to volunteer to help organise and run the event next year, get in touch!

End result was a very good amount of money raised, many hundreds of people who had great experiences and everyone went home safe.

A huge thanks to everyone for coming together to make a special day in a good cause.

[Jimster]

Richard,

thanks again for the invite to the day, both Endaf and myself had a good time taking passengers around, it's a shame we both broke our minis. Endaf killed the gearbox, and my crank tirgger wheel to a bid for freedom.

I only managed to put the camera in for one session before I broke it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U7n5dbD6Ws&fea...