London SPEEDFEST, Targa Cumbria...Who's going???
Discussion
Yeah...You wished!!!
But honestly these are 2 events that we should have here in the UK
London SPEEDFEST:
Greater London has a population of over 10 million people with a huge number of car enthusiasts living in and around it who could definitely put a rather magnificent collection together.
England in general has probably the highest density of car nutters in Europe who own a massive number of interesting, special, fast, rare or just exciting to look at and listen to cars.
I am thinking of the ultimate get together for the car fan. An event that due to its huge range of different vehicles all congregated in the same place would attract people not only from all over the UK but all the car crazy countries in Europe.
A car Mecca where everybody who wants to can participate and compete, racing others, drift and show-boat around, meet other enthusiasts, talk cars, hitch rides, eat, drink and party...
And a good place for exhibitors to show of their latest gimmicks and get close to their potential customers.
Like the Berlin love parade for the raver, Glastonbury for the festival freak, isle of Man TT for the biker...But for all the automobile worshippers around, a place of pilgrimage to come to once a year to watch the hottest metal in action or bring your own car along to race around, whether a Zonda, Celica GT four, vintage rally or race car, Nissan 350Z or a Clio Williams... (obviously the more Zondas, SLRs, F40s, Murcielagos and whatever makes a lot of noise and is fast and rare...the better!)
but judging by what you can see driving around the capital it may well be the most amazing and exotic "run what you brung" show in the world!!!
Lets face it, whoever has an expensive or fast or exotic or in any way interesting car likes to show it and be around as many other expensive or fast or exotic or in any way interesting cars to enjoy the total car overload!! And everybody else who doesn't have any interesting ride to bring along still likes to come and watch all the cool cars moving about and making a lot of noise... A no brainer really!!
I am sure if done properly it could very quickly become one of the hottest and biggest car events in the whole of the UK and Europe. A few examples for events that are not even a fraction as interesting and diverse as the London SPEEDFEST (or whatever it would be called) would be are...
...remember the tunnel runs? just a few blokes meeting somewhere on parking lots and driving through some tunnels in the capital... had over 200 cars at the end!
the "Gti Treffen" in a small lakeside town in Austria attracts 100s of cars participating and 1000s of spectators. and that's just for VW gti's and in a country with a smaller population than greater London!!
An appropriate place would be an airfield with its huge spaces for the cars, different events like circuit, 1/4 mile, drift competition etc, lots of space for spectators and exhibitors and parking.
Such an airfield exists just outside the capital and it already hosts some small motorsport events and it would be possible to hire it. I am talking about:
North Weald Airfield near Epping
(which very conveniently is the last stop on the central line, so lots of people could arrive by public transport from the capital as well!)
http://www.northwealdairfield.org/airfield.html
http://www.northwealdmotorsport.co.uk/index.html
That's just a very vague idea of how the setup could look:
Targa Cumbria (or Wales or Cornwall or Scotland etc):
I know there is a lot of hobby/amateur race events around but NOTHING like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laq8OZaFsMo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsDb8hBw08
I mean who of you WOULDN'T watch that on TV??? Which car magazine (TV or print) WOULDN'T want to be there for a story???
Kind of the Isle of Man TT but with cars...Tarmac Rally with one driver and one navigator... but no pre runs and roadmap changing from year to year.
watch the video from the Targa Tasmania (the first one) and imagine that here in the UK, how amazing would that be ?!?!?!
OK LETS ORGANIZE IT!!! WHO HELPS? (SERIOUSLY!!)
could be reality in 2010/2011!!!
Cheers and let me know your thoughts...
But honestly these are 2 events that we should have here in the UK
London SPEEDFEST:
Greater London has a population of over 10 million people with a huge number of car enthusiasts living in and around it who could definitely put a rather magnificent collection together.
England in general has probably the highest density of car nutters in Europe who own a massive number of interesting, special, fast, rare or just exciting to look at and listen to cars.
I am thinking of the ultimate get together for the car fan. An event that due to its huge range of different vehicles all congregated in the same place would attract people not only from all over the UK but all the car crazy countries in Europe.
A car Mecca where everybody who wants to can participate and compete, racing others, drift and show-boat around, meet other enthusiasts, talk cars, hitch rides, eat, drink and party...
And a good place for exhibitors to show of their latest gimmicks and get close to their potential customers.
Like the Berlin love parade for the raver, Glastonbury for the festival freak, isle of Man TT for the biker...But for all the automobile worshippers around, a place of pilgrimage to come to once a year to watch the hottest metal in action or bring your own car along to race around, whether a Zonda, Celica GT four, vintage rally or race car, Nissan 350Z or a Clio Williams... (obviously the more Zondas, SLRs, F40s, Murcielagos and whatever makes a lot of noise and is fast and rare...the better!)
but judging by what you can see driving around the capital it may well be the most amazing and exotic "run what you brung" show in the world!!!
Lets face it, whoever has an expensive or fast or exotic or in any way interesting car likes to show it and be around as many other expensive or fast or exotic or in any way interesting cars to enjoy the total car overload!! And everybody else who doesn't have any interesting ride to bring along still likes to come and watch all the cool cars moving about and making a lot of noise... A no brainer really!!
I am sure if done properly it could very quickly become one of the hottest and biggest car events in the whole of the UK and Europe. A few examples for events that are not even a fraction as interesting and diverse as the London SPEEDFEST (or whatever it would be called) would be are...
...remember the tunnel runs? just a few blokes meeting somewhere on parking lots and driving through some tunnels in the capital... had over 200 cars at the end!
the "Gti Treffen" in a small lakeside town in Austria attracts 100s of cars participating and 1000s of spectators. and that's just for VW gti's and in a country with a smaller population than greater London!!
An appropriate place would be an airfield with its huge spaces for the cars, different events like circuit, 1/4 mile, drift competition etc, lots of space for spectators and exhibitors and parking.
Such an airfield exists just outside the capital and it already hosts some small motorsport events and it would be possible to hire it. I am talking about:
North Weald Airfield near Epping
(which very conveniently is the last stop on the central line, so lots of people could arrive by public transport from the capital as well!)
http://www.northwealdairfield.org/airfield.html
http://www.northwealdmotorsport.co.uk/index.html
That's just a very vague idea of how the setup could look:
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Targa Cumbria (or Wales or Cornwall or Scotland etc):
I know there is a lot of hobby/amateur race events around but NOTHING like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laq8OZaFsMo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZsDb8hBw08
I mean who of you WOULDN'T watch that on TV??? Which car magazine (TV or print) WOULDN'T want to be there for a story???
Kind of the Isle of Man TT but with cars...Tarmac Rally with one driver and one navigator... but no pre runs and roadmap changing from year to year.
watch the video from the Targa Tasmania (the first one) and imagine that here in the UK, how amazing would that be ?!?!?!
OK LETS ORGANIZE IT!!! WHO HELPS? (SERIOUSLY!!)
could be reality in 2010/2011!!!
Cheers and let me know your thoughts...
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