Aintree 50th year festival
Discussion
Just got back. Glad I went but a bit of a mixed bag. Allowing for the fact that it's a first step and it was probably impossible to get the cars there until after the season I still felt that it was champagne prices for chardonay.
Thought the array of cars was good (especially after the seaon end when they can be a bit 'tired' but beyond that it was a bit thin. The Tatts Speed Hall consisted of four stalls. One promoting the organisers book, one promoting the organiser and one promting cans of marginally motor related cans. The other was for hot tubs?
Food was awful and narrow. One person in the queue I was in had an onion burger (ie without the burger) as they were veggi (no sympathy there then) but were then charged full wack!
Great to see Sit Stirling (sad he's still wheelchair bound and Tony Brooks and Roy Salvadori all doing the signing thing. But the commentary was a bit late in the day and of poor (audio) quality but good content which made it even more frustrating.
I wonder if the guy in the Porky GT3 who paid a silly price for a few laps has come down off the ceiling yet. This reached levels of high farce as the pace car, even though it was crawling (bet the porsche never got on the cam never mind out of first) almost caught the tail end of the wagon train. To add to the excitement there were also on track at the same time a double decker London bus doing tours complete with passengers, potential and ex passengers wandering across the main straight and a couple of guys in a pick-up brushing something off the main straight. Classic!
Overall though I enjoyed it and hope it has enough success to be repeated with some of the rough edges knocked off
Thought the array of cars was good (especially after the seaon end when they can be a bit 'tired' but beyond that it was a bit thin. The Tatts Speed Hall consisted of four stalls. One promoting the organisers book, one promoting the organiser and one promting cans of marginally motor related cans. The other was for hot tubs?
Food was awful and narrow. One person in the queue I was in had an onion burger (ie without the burger) as they were veggi (no sympathy there then) but were then charged full wack!
Great to see Sit Stirling (sad he's still wheelchair bound and Tony Brooks and Roy Salvadori all doing the signing thing. But the commentary was a bit late in the day and of poor (audio) quality but good content which made it even more frustrating.
I wonder if the guy in the Porky GT3 who paid a silly price for a few laps has come down off the ceiling yet. This reached levels of high farce as the pace car, even though it was crawling (bet the porsche never got on the cam never mind out of first) almost caught the tail end of the wagon train. To add to the excitement there were also on track at the same time a double decker London bus doing tours complete with passengers, potential and ex passengers wandering across the main straight and a couple of guys in a pick-up brushing something off the main straight. Classic!
Overall though I enjoyed it and hope it has enough success to be repeated with some of the rough edges knocked off
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