Invite, full day at Siverstone

[tuffer]

Anyone attended the full day event at Silverstone in the last few weeks? Received an invite a couple of months ago and due to attend tomorrow so was wondering what the schedule looked like. Invite was for two people, full day and get to drive the full range. I have attended the half day event before which came with the purchase of my GTS.

[Old Trout]

I assume it is the range experience?

You get to drive a huge range of cars on track/skid/road.

I went last month (in the snow) and got to drive Cayman, Boxster, 991 C2S, 991 C4, PDK and manual, Panamera diesel and petrol, Cayenne S and new diesel (AWESOME). Also go to do the Batak test.

Good food and good company.

Not such a focused time in any car - but you do get to do EVERYTHING!!

[Old Trout]

If they have Shepherds pie is it awesome - a small pie with a little filet steak on the side.

Ginger pud is good too.

[dank]

so is that free, do they just contact you to drive all their cars on track!? If so, how can i get a ticket!!!!!?

[RB_987s]

I went on this just before Xmas and was disappointed, too much hanging around and not enough proper driving.

My day consisted of ten minute drives in a number of Cayenne and Panamera models on the public roads. 15 minutes in a 991 on the track (which was good but too short) and lots of hanging around waiting to go on the ice hill and kick plate in various Boxster & Cayman models.

Lunch was very good though!

[Ady128]

I've been on it too. I think you've got to be thinking about buying a 911 to get an invite (as I was; and eventually did). It was a great day, and the food was a bit arty farty but ok.

[rob.kellock]

My wife and I went last year.

IIRC we had 2 x 30 minutes in 991 on the handling circuit (PDK and manual) - car and an instructor each.

Ice hill and Kick plate over an hour in 987 Cayman and 981 Boxster (we shared the car, instructors used radios to communicate with you)

3 of us + instructor went out on the road for an hour in a Cayenne hybrid

wife and I went out in a Panamera diesel for some v interesting on road tuition from an ex-police instructor - all corner cutting foot to the floor stuff on the de-restricted bits

We did the low friction circuit in a Panamera I think and had a demonstration drive round the off road bit in a tricked up Cayenne.

Came a close second on the Batak but didn't win the prize, lunch was fab, a really good fun day out.

[MrTickle]

I'm there too Chris, and also own a May 2011 GTS, but mine is in Guards....

See you there

[thegoose]

rob.kellock said:

Came a close second on the Batak but didn't win the prize, lunch was fab, a really good fun day out.

What was your Batak score and was it over 30seconds or a minute?

[tuffer]

nice plate Mr Tickle

[tuffer]

Great day, Batak score of 39 in 30 sec. day slihhtly marred by being paired with a couple of guys who thought it acceptable to drive at 60 in a 30 and 110 in a 50, even worse......they were Police Officers.

[rob.kellock]

thegoose said:

What was your Batak score and was it over 30seconds or a minute?

Sorry, genuinely can't remember. It was over 30 seconds and well off the scores of the pro's. On my second go I got the highest score of the day but the prize was awarded for best first attempt.

[Zyp]

rob.kellock said:

Sorry, genuinely can't remember. It was over 30 seconds and well off the scores of the pro's. On my second go I got the highest score of the day but the prize was awarded for best first attempt.

But to be fair to you, Marjorie the one armed cleaner was the only other person to have a go that day.

[rob.kellock]

Beating the Mrs was satisfying enough for me :-)

[MrTickle]

tuffer said:

nice plate Mr Tickle

Cheers

Top Batak score in 30s in our group was 40. Not sure who got the GT3 fast lap prize though.

Not a bad day, but could have done with more time in the 911's on the handling circuit. Would have preferred them to drop the basketball video and driving lesson and used that time for the Cayenne off road.

[tuffer]

I was most impressed with the Panamera GTS, epic sound and just a tad quick.

[MrTickle]

tuffer said:

I was most impressed with the Panamera GTS, epic sound and just a tad quick.

Hmm. we had some fun in that... but in real world terms if I wanted a fat Porsche I think the Cayenne Diesel S had it all covered.

ETA: The Panamera Diesel was total bks - why anyone would dump £70K into that I have no idea.... Spend £40K on an A7 instead!

[tuffer]

MrTickle said:

tuffer said:

I was most impressed with the Panamera GTS, epic sound and just a tad quick.

Hmm. we had some fun in that... but in real world terms if I wanted a fat Porsche I think the Cayenne Diesel S had it all covered.

ETA: The Panamera Diesel was total bks - why anyone would dump £70K into that I have no idea.... Spend £40K on an A7 instead!

Agreed, Cayenne Diesel S was very very good. Panamera Diesel was a dog in comparison.

[crispyshark]

I did this just before Xmas too but was in a press group.

Didn't get as long as i would have liked in the cars but then it was free.

Lunch was lovely and the Cayman R .....would have happily spent all the time in the other cars just in the Cayman.