Live Action Arena

[Jon C]

A shadow of its former self. The first twenty minutes taken up with interviews which belonged on the Autosport stage inside the show. No big names, and very little actual action. Terry Grant is always excellent, but appears to have been being paid by the minute. The guys on the motorbikes at the end were impressive, but were they really relevant to the show?.
Add to that six youngsters in Caterhams undergoing the same embarrassing faux reveal of which of them was the (well deserved) winner of the young driver of the year for the fourth time that day, and the apologetic reveal of the top drivers cars (minus one) being driven round at ten miles an hour, including a Ford Fiesta.

A stock Ford Fiesta.

Poor. Really quite poor.

[Jon C]

GaryThomlinson said:

I quite enjoyed both the main and live shows. Yes the talking was boring but I enjoyed seeing some of the cars and watching stunts etc. If you lot think its crap this year then it must have been spectacular before!

Well, past years have had current WRC cars and drivers doing head to head pursuit races, Pro Modified Drag Racers doing burnouts, single seaters etc. First year I was there Clarkson and Needell were tbe compères and Walter Rohrl and Sebastian Gronholm were amongst the drivers.