Saturday 1st January 2011

2011: A New Year's Message

Out with the old - let's make some room for more of the same...

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Pete - doing it like it's 2010 in the 370Z

Another year has passed us by, and what a year it has been for PH and PHers. And now that this morning's hangover has eased a little, we'd like to share a few memories with you.

It's been a good year for PH racing, not only did we see the original PH fast man RacingPete storm ahead of the pack in a 370Z racer (before being punted off the track by a disgruntled rival), we also saw up-and-coming fast man Riggers take overall 3rd place in the PistonHeads supported 2010 Caterham Academy series, well done to both of them. The rest of the PH team watched some racing at this year's Le Mans 24 and Le Mans Classic, along with many of you who were kind enough to camp with us, or sport PH T shirts and stickers.

Legendary combo. (In our lunchtimes...)

Speaking of Le Mans, our very own PH Smiley hitched a ride with none other than Nigel Mansell, and even though his ride was short-lived we were immensely proud to see the PH logo attain such heady heights.

Sundays were taken to a whole new level in 2010 too, with the rise of the Sunday Service showing no sign of slowing down. It's hard to think that these meets started with just a few like-minded fellows in a car park, as we now welcome 700 cars at some events. Thanks to all of you who visited a Sunday meet last year, and thanks to the manufacturers who allowed us to use their tarmac - let's see what we can do to make the meets bigger and better in 2011.

Sunday Service at Porsche, Silverstone

Competitions were well received in 2010 with thousands of entries coming in for the various comps we ran throughout the year. We gave away race tickets, remote control cars, hot laps in racing cars, the chance to meet the Mansells, a week in our 370Z a brand-new Subaru STi and a behind-the-scenes tour at McLaren. Thanks for all of your support, it was fantastic to see so many of you entering and even better to contact so many of you to tell you that you had won. Let's hope we can give away just as much this year.

Over on the forums we thank our mods for keeping a close eye on the place, and everyone else for keeping them on their toes! We've seen some great threads over the year and despite being over a year old it's always a pleasure to see 'Ambiwlans' amongst the first few pages of The Lounge. We've had celebrities popping by, we've had custard, we've had disputes, and we've had more 'what car should I buy' threads than ever, but once again we must thank you guys for keeping the forums so active and for making them fun too.

Chris-R in his decorating shirt

PH Editor Chris-R has been delivering a steady stream of great content on the home page, and has been gallivanting around the globe driving some of the finest cars we've ever seen. Who can forget when he went to drive the Rolls-Royce Ghost in a shirt most would do the decorating in? The day he 'borrowed' Riggers Land Rover and got it stuck in a ditch, or the time he blagged himself a V10 M6?

To think that he gets paid to do this is too much to bear, but as he let me drive my dream 911 and arranged for us to get our backsides into a bunch of supercars, we forgive him. If you have some ideas for PH editorially, do drop him a line with your thoughts. After all, we write it only in the hope that you'll enjoy reading it!

Garlick's lottery win. (Dream on...)

Meanwhile, all of us here at PH Towers wish you a very Happy New Year, and we hope to meet even more of you throughout 2011. We'll be at the PH Show at the NEC in mid-January so make sure you come and say hello if you are there. If not then maybe we'll see you at a PH meet somewhere in 2011.

Enjoy the rest of the bank holiday!

[80quattro]

Happy New Year PH.
What plans are afoot for 2011 ?

[80quattro]

Garlick said:

We could tell you, but......

Watch this space but the Sunday meets start again at the end of this month and we'll kick off from there

I'll be seriously impressed if you can top the Porsche Centre Sunday Service at Silverstone. That really set the bar high, IMHO.

Time for me to upgrade one of my sheds !