Where is this going on in the UK?
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nicanary said:
It would be a bit difficult to organise, since public road racing is only allowed in Northern Ireland.
And in Scarborough.Dave Brand said:
An act allowing local authorities to close roads for motor sport purposes was passed last year, wasn't it?
Almost : http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/118239OP- if you go to any speed hillclimb you will quickly realise that supercars are actually very tame to watch in action compared to proper competition cars, even stuff like a quick 205GTI (let alone a quick Seven type car) will leave most exotica for dead and when you have seen a 600bhp Gould single seater in action you will find that any roadgoing car is slow, quiet and boring to watch in comparison .
coppice said:
OP- if you go to any speed hillclimb you will quickly realise that supercars are actually very tame to watch in action compared to proper competition cars, even stuff like a quick 205GTI (let alone a quick Seven type car) will leave most exotica for dead and when you have seen a 600bhp Gould single seater in action you will find that any roadgoing car is slow, quiet and boring to watch in comparison .
Very true.'Supercar' parades/demos at race meetings really bring this home.
Having just watched the first 5 minutes of the youtube clip all I can say to OP is that if you get excited by this lot (short shifting and pedestrian driving of so called supercars) then please stand well back when you encounter something like Mike Manning's 650bhp Puma at a hillclimb. I am not sure your nerves will be up to it.
To repeat - no matter how moist some may get at road going cars few, if any, are remotely impressive in any way (speed, noise, spectacle ) compared to a competition car in its natural habitat.Have a day at Prescott , Harewood or Shelsey and see for yourself . But get medical advice before you venture to Santa Pod as there is a real risk of self combustion . Think a LaFerrari can accelerate quickly ?
To repeat - no matter how moist some may get at road going cars few, if any, are remotely impressive in any way (speed, noise, spectacle ) compared to a competition car in its natural habitat.Have a day at Prescott , Harewood or Shelsey and see for yourself . But get medical advice before you venture to Santa Pod as there is a real risk of self combustion . Think a LaFerrari can accelerate quickly ?
marshalla said:
gshughes said:
nicanary said:
It would be a bit difficult to organise, since public road racing is only allowed in Northern Ireland.
Not true, the Jim Clark rally in the borders of Scotland is run on public roads.The Jim Clark and Tour of Mull need (needed?) an act of parliament each year to suspend the relevant provisions of the Road traffic act to allow them to take place. As did the Birmingham superprix, which was a race.
Perhaps we can, using closed roads, if a club wants to take the financial risk and competitors want to pay the entrance fee.
Given the amount of bales we used to need to put on one corner of an airfield where the course got close to a fence, I dread to think of how many will be required to get a track licence to use a public road for a speed event. I quite look forward to hearing John Symes' general thinking on it though.
Given the amount of bales we used to need to put on one corner of an airfield where the course got close to a fence, I dread to think of how many will be required to get a track licence to use a public road for a speed event. I quite look forward to hearing John Symes' general thinking on it though.
e21Mark said:
If only we had some proper sprint events and hillclimbs on real roads here in the UK. 
It is indeed a shame that we cannot - or do not - put on speed events on longer courses . Some of the European stuff looks amazing and to my eyes , with proper coverage, is a far better TV spectacle than many domestic race series. BTCC at Rockingham hardly gets my pulse racing . The diversity of competing cars in speed events -here and in Europe - is terrific. But I wouldn't deprecate what we have in the UK either; our hills may be short but no enthusiast should be unmoved by seeing a 600bhp single seater spearing uphill , often at very close range. I find it depressing that so many self styled petorlheads apparently prefer to park in a field full of identical cars to their own and spend the day taking endless photos of serried rows of similar cars. Still, each to their own I guess...
The trouble is that any longer venue would not be purpose built - and closed roads are dangerous enough with rally cars , let alone singe seaters. Swiss seem to manage it though don't they ..and this in a country where racing per se has been illegal since Le Mans tragedy in 55 was it ?
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