TVR MANIA - ideas for future event
Discussion
See what you mean about responce come on all you lot who went (i didn't) make your suggestions here
I didn't go as i said but i think free entry to accompanied kids(no i havent got any) would help and it shouldn't cost too much,might even get more adults as a result thereby bringing in more money
Car parking organised along the lines of type or region etc
Lots of trade stands
Ride dive (or equilivent if there is such a thing
)offering driving advice
Plenty of good food etc
Participation events i.e slalom cources etc
If i think of anything else ill let somebody know
Views of a six month long member
I didn't go as i said but i think free entry to accompanied kids(no i havent got any) would help and it shouldn't cost too much,might even get more adults as a result thereby bringing in more money
Car parking organised along the lines of type or region etc
Lots of trade stands
Ride dive (or equilivent if there is such a thing
)offering driving advice Plenty of good food etc
Participation events i.e slalom cources etc
If i think of anything else ill let somebody know
Views of a six month long member
Initial thoughts. 
Why have one when you could have two?
Make one a weekend (say a jaunt to France /
nice hotel, blast round an old race track, lovely
scenery to drive in etc etc ) oh, that would be
Mania at Le Mans 2004
Seriously.. why not, sounds like 2003 was a kind
of unofficial Mania anyway, so why not give it the
TVRCC official stamp by just adding a few things?
Make the other a less formal event that could be taken
in part or as a whole as a one or two day gathering at
a suitable UK family location (castle, museum, lake
etc) and have one of the days relocate to a circuit
for either a race (Tuscan challenge, GT etc) or a
track day?
Families could stay at the hotel use the pool
etc etc if they didn't want to be bored by our antics
or owners could head home if they did want the
speed thrill?
Booked en mass, good quality hotels can be around
£50 / £60 per double room.
People could also just pick the day they want to
attend and skip the expense of a hotel?
Rockingham seems happy to give 1000's of free tickets
away each event, so why not given them to the TVRCC?
Either way, coordination at any event is a must, with
TVR models parked together, allowing easy comparisons.
Advance notification of arrangements for the parking,
food, dealers, displays, offers would encourage attendance
as the more on offer, the wider the appeal and that makes
it a grand day out.
It's really not that hard to do, yes it takes time,
but it's really not that hard, but you need to plan
these things a year off at least... and we now have that.
While I don't have a lot of free time, especially as I
have plans afoot for The Cerebra Register for 2004,
if I can help in any small way, I will always try and
I think we all should - it is our club after all!
Let's make it a complete turn around for 2004!
Go create some weather...
Graham
TCR The Cerbera Register
www.TVR-Cerbera.com
Why have one when you could have two?
Make one a weekend (say a jaunt to France /
nice hotel, blast round an old race track, lovely
scenery to drive in etc etc ) oh, that would be
Mania at Le Mans 2004
Seriously.. why not, sounds like 2003 was a kind
of unofficial Mania anyway, so why not give it the
TVRCC official stamp by just adding a few things?
Make the other a less formal event that could be taken
in part or as a whole as a one or two day gathering at
a suitable UK family location (castle, museum, lake
etc) and have one of the days relocate to a circuit
for either a race (Tuscan challenge, GT etc) or a
track day?
Families could stay at the hotel use the pool
etc etc if they didn't want to be bored by our antics
or owners could head home if they did want the
speed thrill?
Booked en mass, good quality hotels can be around
£50 / £60 per double room.
People could also just pick the day they want to
attend and skip the expense of a hotel?
Rockingham seems happy to give 1000's of free tickets
away each event, so why not given them to the TVRCC?
Either way, coordination at any event is a must, with
TVR models parked together, allowing easy comparisons.
Advance notification of arrangements for the parking,
food, dealers, displays, offers would encourage attendance
as the more on offer, the wider the appeal and that makes
it a grand day out.
It's really not that hard to do, yes it takes time,
but it's really not that hard, but you need to plan
these things a year off at least... and we now have that.
While I don't have a lot of free time, especially as I
have plans afoot for The Cerebra Register for 2004,
if I can help in any small way, I will always try and
I think we all should - it is our club after all!
Let's make it a complete turn around for 2004!
Go create some weather...
Graham
TCR The Cerbera Register
www.TVR-Cerbera.com
Here's an idea a few of us talked around a while ago.
To join TVR Mania up with other clubs and have a 'Best of British' weekend.
Lotus, Jaguar, Marcos, Caterham and MG spring straight to mind.
It would be one flippin good weekend!
The TVRCC isn't big enough to take over a whole race circuit for an entire weekend, especially mid-season. Probably the biggest hurdle would be in convincing a circuit to let us have a decent mid-season date. However, if we can make the event looks like it is going to draw a significant number of punters and therefore be financially attractive them they ought to leap at it! By punter I mean the general public, not just the club members.
To attract the punters we need to give the event a catchy title and a healthy lineup of entertaining racing. Tuscan and Tasmin racers are obvious choices for TVR and Caterham is an obvious example of a non-TVR racing series. Then there are the racing cars we see all over the place, the Jaguars, TRs, Minis, Healys, etc. With enough notice getting their support in some form ought not be a problem.
There are new cars; I suspect TVR, Bentley, Marcos, Invicta, MG, etc would be quite happy to punt their latest supercars around the track as it would be excellent publicity for them. Then there are demonstration laps by GT and Le Mans cars, this is not just TVR so there ought to be potential for quite a good field. Finally there are historic racers. The Rover Vitesse, Broadspeed Jaguar and Le Mans Jaguar I recent saw at Goodwood leap straight to mind.
Remember - don't ask, won't get!
It would probably take several years to get an event like this in place but it would be bloomin good if it happened!
To join TVR Mania up with other clubs and have a 'Best of British' weekend.
Lotus, Jaguar, Marcos, Caterham and MG spring straight to mind.
It would be one flippin good weekend!
The TVRCC isn't big enough to take over a whole race circuit for an entire weekend, especially mid-season. Probably the biggest hurdle would be in convincing a circuit to let us have a decent mid-season date. However, if we can make the event looks like it is going to draw a significant number of punters and therefore be financially attractive them they ought to leap at it! By punter I mean the general public, not just the club members.
To attract the punters we need to give the event a catchy title and a healthy lineup of entertaining racing. Tuscan and Tasmin racers are obvious choices for TVR and Caterham is an obvious example of a non-TVR racing series. Then there are the racing cars we see all over the place, the Jaguars, TRs, Minis, Healys, etc. With enough notice getting their support in some form ought not be a problem.
There are new cars; I suspect TVR, Bentley, Marcos, Invicta, MG, etc would be quite happy to punt their latest supercars around the track as it would be excellent publicity for them. Then there are demonstration laps by GT and Le Mans cars, this is not just TVR so there ought to be potential for quite a good field. Finally there are historic racers. The Rover Vitesse, Broadspeed Jaguar and Le Mans Jaguar I recent saw at Goodwood leap straight to mind.
Remember - don't ask, won't get!
It would probably take several years to get an event like this in place but it would be bloomin good if it happened!
I have attended a couple of the weekend events (Taffia Trilogy - just drinking from the mug) and the Isle of Man event, as well as day events, Duxford and Stanford Hall. We didn't go to Bruntingthorpe as we had done a track day there earlier in the year, and knew roughly what the format would be.
Generally most people have to travel somewhere to get to these events. I feel the best opportunity to meet people is during a dinner, or other event based at a Hotel, so you can peg out and relax.
I think the best format is a weekend event - how about a trackday on a Friday, treasurehunt*/drive out*/Karting*/Sailing*/Long Boats* on the Saturday , and Tuscan/GT Racing on the Sunday, with events planned for the evenings.
(* take your pick)
I would be willing to help out too with the organisation.
Just my twopenneth .
Generally most people have to travel somewhere to get to these events. I feel the best opportunity to meet people is during a dinner, or other event based at a Hotel, so you can peg out and relax.
I think the best format is a weekend event - how about a trackday on a Friday, treasurehunt*/drive out*/Karting*/Sailing*/Long Boats* on the Saturday , and Tuscan/GT Racing on the Sunday, with events planned for the evenings.
(* take your pick)
I would be willing to help out too with the organisation.
Just my twopenneth .
have come across a Mobile Indian takeaway. Very nice.
Trade stands. Goodies for sale
HGV and off road was good at bruntinthorpe.
Kids entertainment. Bouncy castles? Sure a water fight or 2 would have been nice for the grown ups.
Summer=water. need for refreshments in large quantities.
If there is karting, how about just turn up rather than team events. I am no expert at karting and would like a few goes. F1 or endurance out the window. Just a few laps for fun.
Oddies like the rare TVR's and other cars.
Parking in marque?
Trade stands. Goodies for sale
HGV and off road was good at bruntinthorpe.
Kids entertainment. Bouncy castles? Sure a water fight or 2 would have been nice for the grown ups.
Summer=water. need for refreshments in large quantities.
If there is karting, how about just turn up rather than team events. I am no expert at karting and would like a few goes. F1 or endurance out the window. Just a few laps for fun.
Oddies like the rare TVR's and other cars.
Parking in marque?
I would have to take my partner along to it, so could we have the event somewhere that something different from TVRs, ie Duxford has planes, or Gaydon has the museum. Just so you can turn off from the Tivs for a while and make it a longer day out.
Maybe invited a few other car clubs along as well.
Malc
Maybe invited a few other car clubs along as well.
Malc
Just brainstorming :
How about tie the event up with a round of the TVRCC speed championship ?
BBQ / food seems good - especially Indian!
If you are going to target the family, other entertainment would be needed e.g. museum, Red Arrows, Red Devils, Fun Fair! etc.
I somehow feel driving should be involved but I'm not sure how - it seems just a waste having all that machinary just parked up.
And how about a buying / selling car area so people can advertise / meet cars and their owners ?
How about tie the event up with a round of the TVRCC speed championship ?
BBQ / food seems good - especially Indian!
If you are going to target the family, other entertainment would be needed e.g. museum, Red Arrows, Red Devils, Fun Fair! etc.
I somehow feel driving should be involved but I'm not sure how - it seems just a waste having all that machinary just parked up.
And how about a buying / selling car area so people can advertise / meet cars and their owners ?
count duckula said:
Maybe invited a few other car clubs along as well.
Malc
I second that.
Suggestions:
Try to get *at least* three or four clubs involved. Obvious ones would be Lotus and Porsche which are well organised clubs with resources to make a success of it.
Something that's really good about PH events is the variety of machines. So getting guests like the Ultima lot along and so on I think would provide the car fans more to do than just walk along a big line of Chimaeras or Tuscans going "Oooh. The leather's a bit different in that one...Oooh."
Having runway blasts seems fun and safer at the sort of event it is than a circuit. Its important that these are non-competetive for insurance reasons but if if it was safe to run two cars up the runway at the same time that would provide some entertainment don't you think? Sort of a RWYB?
Stuff for the other half to do is very important. You can't stay focussed on cars and chatting the whole day. So a exhibition/museum to look at at the venue would be good.
Kids entertainment sounds like a good plan (I don't have any myself but I know that happy kids = happy parents. Bored kids = day of hell).
Playstations - virtual racing...
Karting.
If you could make it a Track Day as well you could do most of these things at places like Thruxton/Silverstone/Brands...
None of the above being *easy*...
Don said:
Maybe invited a few other car clubs along as well.
Malc
I second that.
Suggestions:
Try to get *at least* three or four clubs involved. Obvious ones would be Lotus and Porsche which are well organised clubs with resources to make a success of it.
Ummm... An event with lots of TVRs. But with a variety of British, or other, sports cars. And some form of track or driving event...
Isn't that PH rather than TVRCC?
OK here’s my idea of a good event.
Two days offering TVR driving, showing off (for the polishers amongst us) beer, BBQ and Racing.
1) Saturday a.m. regional convoys to arrive at Beaulieu around lunchtime - park up in dediacted fields for afternoon of informal concourse & driving tests/gymkhana stuff, visit motor museum, look at manor house and generally wander around site.
2) Sat evening pitch tent - drink beer, have BBQ / Hog-Roast and Marquee for evening and perhaps some simple entertainment DJ or band?
3) Sunday morning leave Beaulieu in convoys around New Forest finishing at Goodwood.
4) Sunday afternoon arrange a Goodwood track session for members or watch round of TVRCC Sprint championship.
5) Sunday evening have a few more beers and say cheerio’s
Rich…
Two days offering TVR driving, showing off (for the polishers amongst us) beer, BBQ and Racing.
1) Saturday a.m. regional convoys to arrive at Beaulieu around lunchtime - park up in dediacted fields for afternoon of informal concourse & driving tests/gymkhana stuff, visit motor museum, look at manor house and generally wander around site.
2) Sat evening pitch tent - drink beer, have BBQ / Hog-Roast and Marquee for evening and perhaps some simple entertainment DJ or band?
3) Sunday morning leave Beaulieu in convoys around New Forest finishing at Goodwood.
4) Sunday afternoon arrange a Goodwood track session for members or watch round of TVRCC Sprint championship.
5) Sunday evening have a few more beers and say cheerio’s
Rich…
Duncan (Nacnud)'s idea is a cracking one. A full British sports car W/E. Suggest split Saturday into track day sessions by marque, though there may be too many cars. Then some feature races from the various clubs on the Sunday.
Perhaps we could do this W/E - race thing just for Tiv's at a smaller Circuit such as Mallory or Castle Combe with Track use by members on the Saturday and Tuscans/Tasmins on the Sunday with the Factory cars doing a demo for us all.
Going forward:
* Plenty of track time thus multi cars on track (e.g. Duxford)
* Factory Involvement (Cars on Display plus racers on track)
* Kids stuff
* More trade stands (let them in for nominal amount as many are small business's that can't afford several £k for a stand)
* Parking by Model
* Good Ticket pack with clear instructions, parking, info, etc, etc.
* If a W/E job get a band on Sat evening (thus boozing after the Sat Track session) - surely there's a famous band person out there who's a Tiv fan & who will thus be cheap?
I'd be happy to help the organising committee in some way perhaps by organising something with the Wedges. Problem with people helping is geography but with net meeting and video conferencing from home this could be eased.
Like this positive thread - sound move - lets go for it.
GB
Perhaps we could do this W/E - race thing just for Tiv's at a smaller Circuit such as Mallory or Castle Combe with Track use by members on the Saturday and Tuscans/Tasmins on the Sunday with the Factory cars doing a demo for us all.
Going forward:
* Plenty of track time thus multi cars on track (e.g. Duxford)
* Factory Involvement (Cars on Display plus racers on track)
* Kids stuff
* More trade stands (let them in for nominal amount as many are small business's that can't afford several £k for a stand)
* Parking by Model
* Good Ticket pack with clear instructions, parking, info, etc, etc.
* If a W/E job get a band on Sat evening (thus boozing after the Sat Track session) - surely there's a famous band person out there who's a Tiv fan & who will thus be cheap?
I'd be happy to help the organising committee in some way perhaps by organising something with the Wedges. Problem with people helping is geography but with net meeting and video conferencing from home this could be eased.
Like this positive thread - sound move - lets go for it.
GB
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