Bournemouth Wheels Festival 2015

[SpikeBmth]

Few photos from southbourne












and in the BIC

[drakart]

I was giggling like a child during the police convoy whilst Nat drove. Great fun!!
Andrew - White GT3

[SydneyBridge]

Great day, despite the weather not being the best.

[Bart 124]

Appreciate the pic of my Ultima, what a bloody cracking weekend it has been

[SydneyBridge]

Bart 124 said:

Appreciate the pic of my Ultima, what a bloody cracking weekend it has been

Your Ultima sounded superb and it looked fun bombing up and down the straight.

[SpikeBmth]

We had a great day, caught the first demo run, really hgardv getting decent shots, as so fast lol

Few of our members and the gorgeous P1

[Jek Porkins]

What a fantastic weekend that was. Better than last year.

Thank you to all the owners on here who brought their cars along - some properly amazing metal.

I got to sit in the P1 too. Something I'll remember for a very, very long time

[tuscman]

VX220 owners club drive into the event on Saturday

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgS4KvhkInc

[killerferret666]

Popped down on sunday, was a good event and we went after the rain. saw Barts car, im guessing Bart was the guy holding the steering wheel

Didnt get a chance to say Hi as at the time it was a bit busy.

[Dave2P]

Bart 124 said:

what a bloody cracking weekend it has been

Absolutely this.

Delighted to have been invited (cheers Bart!) and enjoyed every minute of it. A great mix of characters across the spectrum of petrolheads, some very special cars... and the twice daily sprint down the demo straight was the icing on the cake.

Felt genuinely sad it was over as I waved goodbye to the small convoy leaving on the spur road yesterday evening...

Big thanks to all the Events Team for looking after us (especially those guiding us around in the Cathedral of Noise Purbeck Hall who will probably all be deaf for the next week), and top marks to BCC for having the guts to run with it. They're saying there were 200,000 people there on Saturday!

[TB Rich]

Had many of the entrants gone by the Sunday afternoon slots? I saw only 3 Touring cars, and the Le Mans and Supercars I must have been in the wrong spot for because I saw them once set off behind a saftey car, then return a while later again behind a saftey car. Also only about 4 Supercars too

Anyway the Monster Trucks and Lotus F1 made up for it, and next year try not to be ill for the Saturday I guess!

IMG_4083.jpg by Richard Gray, on Flickr
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[fatboy18]

Sunday afternoon saw an interruption for the Le mans cars, some tit fell off the wall breaking his arm and an ambulance had to be called down the demo course to attend to him. this put things back a good Half hour. once we le mans cars finished the rally cars went out followed by the F1 cars and then the motorcycles.

Hi and lows for me on the weekend, Saturday afternoon run did not go well, they held the cars for a while at monkey island, I turned the car off only to find the car had a dead battery upon trying to start it again

Highlight...Getting a jump start off a 1930 Bentley Blower! Brilliant

[123quackers]

Found this of me in the quietest car off the weekend


http://youtu.be/dkAEF-F3l10

[123quackers]

Bart 124 said:

Appreciate the pic of my Ultima, what a bloody cracking weekend it has been

James, you forgot to sit the Miura! At least the wife has one up on you !

Nice to see you again, did you get the engine hatch clip riveted ok?

[SpikeBmth]

Good footage here 2015> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4BGoLVe6f0

2014> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DsCQiisbik

Edited by SpikeBmth on Monday 1st June 18:33

Edited by SpikeBmth on Monday 1st June 22:00

[fatboy18]

You do realise the second video link you posted was last years cars?

[SpikeBmth]

fatboy18 said:

You do realise the second video link you posted was last years cars?

opps, I did think a different selection on the Saturday lol

[456mgt]

Really good event, though I preferred the road layout from last year; too many chicanes and tighter too, so I barely got into third gear. Good fun though!

[Bart 124]

The chicanes were certainly a little more challenging from last year, I quite enjoyed it though, nice to be able to give the Ultima a proper wiggle through some of them and shoot some flames.

Sad news to hear that at this point in time the Council are weighing up the cost benefit of the festival running again. Seems they are worried that they were down 200,000 on last years attendance figures.

Perhaps running it the weekend after the bank holiday and on a Friday would explain why!

[SydneyBridge]

456mgt said:

Really good event, though I preferred the road layout from last year; too many chicanes and tighter too, so I barely got into third gear. Good fun though!

Dare I ask how fast you managed to get up to in third gear?
Your car sounded superb, one of the best sounding there (the new Merc AMG sounded rather nice as well).
I always thought the F40 sounded as good as F50,but the chap in his F40 seemed to be taking it easy.