Fancy drag racing your motor?
Supercar day all in the name of charidee
Cars at Terminal Velocity 2004
The charity track-day consists of 1/4 mile drag racing and 1.5 mile speed runs and is restricted to 75 Supercars only. It's being held solely to raise money for charity.
TV reckoned the success of last year's event, which raised £600 for Great Ormond Street Hospital, was largely due to the eclectic nature of the attendees, drawn from a select band of Supercar Owner's clubs and a network of Underground Roadracers all looking for a legal outlet for their adrenalin fuelled ambitions.
The audience of petrol heads and party animals came for the weather, the cars and the sights and smells of tortured metal and rubber. Most of the attendees had gathered the night before for some idle boasting and wild speculation about their performances and this continued long into the night. The next day this was evidenced by some late arrivals and very bleary eyes.
Everyone who attended the event managed more drag runs and top speed runs than they could possibly have hoped for, and by early afternoon the leaders were marking their professionalism and commitment clear, by working harder and harder to scrape extra hundredths of a second and tenths of a mile per hour.
The competition was enthralling and much, much tougher than anyone (including the organisers) had expected. A track record for a car's top speed was achieved by the RUF tuned Porsche, with prizes were duly awarded to the winners.
This year the bar has been raised again, with several very heavily tuned 3000GT/GTOs, Supras and RX7s aiming to push the German machines harder and harder, and with the attendance of one of Maranello's finest performers in the shape of an F40. And several of the big BHP Skylines will no doubt have a definitive say in proceedings.
When: 20th August 2005
Where: RAF Woodbridge, Suffolk.
Price: up to £75
Details here.
www.cyber-site.com/terminalvelocity/tv2004/images/zDSCF2394_jpg.jpg
Classic entry?
www.cyber-site.com/terminalvelocity/tv2004/images/DSCF2365_jpg.jpg
They must be fun on the quarter mile . . .
The Shoguns were support cars for running round the airfield.. (its big so you needed em!)
600 Quid for the first year of the event was pretty good(i was very happy to break even as right up until the last minute we were deep in the red!!) Hope to do much much better this year!! (With all of your help!)
We had a show and shine section last year so we had all sorts of cars turn up to show off !! This year it's just about thrashing the cars to their limit! And with no police to worry about!!!
Just a quick note, but the event is at Woodbridge not Bentwaters , though the basis are twinned Woodbridge is still an MOD facility and so is strictly controlled and can't involve any handling circuits! Unlike Bentwaters which is now privately owned!
Hope to see you all their
Cheers
David McCarthy
Terminal Velocity Events Team.
I went to last year's event and it was a great day out, so let's have people in their droves for TV'05....especially ones who own a Speed 12!!
As for the 600 quid....well, it was 600 quid that wasn't there before TV'04, so I don't really see that as being much of a failure. I've known whole offices of people donate just over 1/20th of that figure for a good cause!
So please, please, PLEASE remember a lot of hard work was put into organising the event by people who don't do it for a living, as is the case again this year.
It would be fantastic to see an even bigger turnout this year, and if not for the event, do it for the charideee mate!
Mark
>> Edited by MarkoTVR on Friday 8th April 10:11
MarkoTVR said:
Roll up, roll up!! High speed fun and frolics are to be found here!
I went to last year's event and it was a great day out, so let's have people in their droves for TV'05....especially ones who own a Speed 12!!
As for the 600 quid....well, it was 600 quid that wasn't there before TV'04, so I don't really see that as being much of a failure. I've known whole offices of people donate just over 1/20th of that figure for a good cause!
So please, please, PLEASE remember a lot of hard work was put into organising the event by people who don't do it for a living, as is the case again this year.
It would be fantastic to see an even bigger turnout this year, and if not for the event, do it for the charideee mate!
Mark
Good call.
I know Woodbridge well and it's great for these days. It is also surrounded by some fantastic drivers' roads.
Anyway as part of my training as an IOPD Marshall and Clerk of the Course. I spent this morning at Woodbridge and during a break in proceedings of the bike sprint day, I took the Beemer down the Runway at a pretty sedate pace and was amazed at how smoothe the surface is ! After a quick circuit back to the start down a not so smooth service road(50mph limit here so no probs) I tried a tad more rapid journey and found it to be equally comfortable!(If only the A12 was half as good !!)
I think it's safe to say that it's the best surface I have ever seen on a drag day. (Much much better than Elvington, and significantly better than Santa Pod and Bruntingthorpe!)
It has wintered extremely well.. the main runway is dark smooth tarmac and runs for over 1.5 miles.. the start area is light tan brown tarmac with lots and lots of grip..Perfect for big power cars to catch a flyer from!
By the time our event comes round 20th August 2005, the new health and safety rules will be functioning very smoothly.
Many Thanks
David McCarthy
Yes entrants list is on the TV2005 Forum!
www.tv2005.co.uk
The day is shaping up to be amazing, even if I do say so myself!!
>> Edited by killerm5 on Tuesday 12th April 10:06
F40 - Paid
Dodge Viper (Full Le Mans Engine - 650bhp) - Paid
Dodge Viper (winner of the silverstate mile - 900rwhp) - Cheque sent
Cobra Brock Coupe 1964 Replica (500hp) - Paid
GT2 x 2 - Paid
Ruf Yellowbird - Paid
Ruf R-GT2 - Paid
Ruf RTurbo - Paid
Mitsubishi 3000GT/GTO x 5 - Paid
(2 of these proven 12 second quarter mile cars with 500bhp)
Ultima - Cheque Sent
Ultima - Sniffing
TVR 350c(Red Rose- Modded to 415hp) - Paid
TVR Pheonix 6.0 (Cerbera Project Car - 1000hp) - Paid
Ferrari 575 LM - Cheque Sent
BMW M5 (Supercharged to 640hp) - Cheque Sent
BMW M5 (Lightly Modded 425hp) - Paid
BMW M3 (Heavily Modded -400+hp) - Paid (See www.chippeduk.com)
Lotus Esprit Turbo S4 x 2- Sniffing
15 quid for a family entrance ticket, makes it very affordable as well. (and there'll food and drink available and stalls to browse.. and some great cars sitting in the paddock too!!! lolol )
Cheers
David
GuyR said:
I have discounted the Phoenix Cerbera as whilst I hope it will show it hasn't been built yet AFAIK. In my experience these projects take a lot longer than expected to finish and get working well.
All valid points, but the main engineering work completes pretty soon, after that we've got a few months to tweak and further tweak... see you there...
Positive mental attitude - thats what it takes... as long as things dont go belly-up in a major way, we should be ok well before August....
With the gearing in mind and the low drag-coeff, the 1000rwhp/tonne should produce some interesting results...
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