Ultima Event Silverstone Classic 2016?
Discussion
Had an email today from silverstone announcing the dates as 29-31 July.... Are the Factory up for supporting an Ultima event again?
http://www.silverstoneclassic.com/
• 29-31 July dates announced for next summer’s three-day festival
• 2016 extravaganza will build on Silver Jubilee successes
• More unrivalled grids, track parades and car club displays
Its probably a bit early to hammer out the details of course, but was wondering what the factories thoughts were on next year? Stand over 2 days perhaps? Worth trying to sort an Ultima track parade on one of the dates? And of course some back up measures in case the weather is pish!!!
I for one had a great time and would travel the 700 odd miles again (albeit back up the road the next day rather than same day). I think more time would be great as I think I spoke to about 15% of the other owners there! Also at busy times the stand was devoid of owners so maybe for punters a few owners can agree to hang around and talk Ultima to punters or each other where there isnt a popular event on, IE a sleection of owners will be here 1-2pm to have a Q&a session if you are interested etc etc.
Just an idea to help support the factory in a what I thought is a brilliant day out and I for one would be interested in turning it into a fuller weekend!
Cheers.
Mark.
http://www.silverstoneclassic.com/
• 29-31 July dates announced for next summer’s three-day festival
• 2016 extravaganza will build on Silver Jubilee successes
• More unrivalled grids, track parades and car club displays
Its probably a bit early to hammer out the details of course, but was wondering what the factories thoughts were on next year? Stand over 2 days perhaps? Worth trying to sort an Ultima track parade on one of the dates? And of course some back up measures in case the weather is pish!!!
I for one had a great time and would travel the 700 odd miles again (albeit back up the road the next day rather than same day). I think more time would be great as I think I spoke to about 15% of the other owners there! Also at busy times the stand was devoid of owners so maybe for punters a few owners can agree to hang around and talk Ultima to punters or each other where there isnt a popular event on, IE a sleection of owners will be here 1-2pm to have a Q&a session if you are interested etc etc.
Just an idea to help support the factory in a what I thought is a brilliant day out and I for one would be interested in turning it into a fuller weekend!
Cheers.
Mark.
I think it is a great idea.
Things to improve the experience:-
A covered area (tent, or at least gazebo) for cover from rain or scorching sun.
Some seats and maybe tables (not much room in an Ultima for folding chairs) and a lot of us are old farts.
I think the above would be almost essential.
Good to have's
Cold soft drinks (more for the hot weather, but talking is thirsty work).
A few brollies (Ultima branded) for talking beside cars if raining.
A track parade would be good, but there is a lot of waiting around and the cars are parked up ready to take to the track for quite a while (If you want to play at Silverstone, book a track day).
That's a start and I am trying to keep the costs sensible.
Paul
Things to improve the experience:-
A covered area (tent, or at least gazebo) for cover from rain or scorching sun.
Some seats and maybe tables (not much room in an Ultima for folding chairs) and a lot of us are old farts.
I think the above would be almost essential.
Good to have's
Cold soft drinks (more for the hot weather, but talking is thirsty work).
A few brollies (Ultima branded) for talking beside cars if raining.
A track parade would be good, but there is a lot of waiting around and the cars are parked up ready to take to the track for quite a while (If you want to play at Silverstone, book a track day).
That's a start and I am trying to keep the costs sensible.
Paul
Going off my experiences from doing auto sport show / silverstone / good wood I would ask to be in same area as this year as its good acess but try to get pushed back into the right hand corner so to have a fence across the rear and the right side this allows putting a banner on each fence back to back also acting as a wind breaker with the gazebo in the corner using the fence to fix it to Only have 4 fold up chairs so gazebo isn't cluttered so usable iff raining . The fence could be used also to set up a picture wall any owners or builders invited to put up 1 a4 pic with there car in it factory supply a4 folder pouch (they could claim these back on ) tax ) Then get a list of cars and colours and allocate spaces by colour to make it uniform at each side of centre . Iff any food is supplied it could be a brown bag pack up allocated to drivers as a gesture . Also use the Sunday as the main day as more people would probably attend that day use the Saturday as a park and walk about day Hope some of these ideas are of use also promote the ultima owners forum and piston heads ultima page as a group network
Going off my experiences from doing auto sport show / silverstone / good wood I would ask to be in same area as this year as its good acess but try to get pushed back into the right hand corner so to have a fence across the rear and the right side this allows putting a banner on each fence back to back also acting as a wind breaker with the gazebo in the corner using the fence to fix it to Only have 4 fold up chairs so gazebo isn't cluttered so usable iff raining . The fence could be used also to set up a picture wall any owners or builders invited to put up 1 a4 pic with there car in it factory supply a4 folder pouch (they could claim these back on ) tax ) Then get a list of cars and colours and allocate spaces by colour to make it uniform at each side of centre . Iff any food is supplied it could be a brown bag pack up allocated to drivers as a gesture . Also use the Sunday as the main day as more people would probably attend that day use the Saturday as a park and walk about day Hope some of these ideas are of use also promote the ultima owners forum and piston heads ultima page as a group network
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