The inaugural Southern Mini GP2 Meet-up & Run-out

The inaugural Southern Mini GP2 Meet-up & Run-out

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MDifficult

Original Poster:

2,019 posts

184 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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On the back of a few gentle nudges in my Readers Cars thread, I’ve decided to get up off the sofa and put together a meet-up and run-out for fellow GP2 owners. As well as getting the chance to meet a few of you face to face, the spectacle of a convoy and carpark of identical cars is a photo opportunity not to be missed laugh

Here’s the thoughts so far, so please stick your details down in the thread if you’re interested…

Who?
With only 220 of these cars in the UK, we should be able to rustle-up 5% of them. To make the most of the spectacle and keep the group manageable (Max 10) I think it’s best to stick rigidly to GP2s only. Pretty sure the world doesn’t need another generic Mini meet up and I'm certainly not trying to start an owners club laugh

Co-Pilots very much welcome - just two seats mean we don’t have to worry about a cast of thousands.

What?
Given the choice, I’d always prefer to be driving cars rather than standing around looking at them, but the best of both worlds feels like a quick meet-up somewhere suitable very early one weekend morning, followed by a twisty run-out with some good stops along the way to re-group, photographs and bacon.

Where?
I’m based in the South as are most of the folk who’ve expressed an interest so it’s likely to be Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Hampshire or some combination of them. Feels like it would be a shame not to stop by the Cowley plant in Oxford, so that gives you a rough idea. Once we know who’s interested I can try a find something relatively central.

When?
I’m a big fan of early starts, empty roads and good weather so some time between now and end September. I'd aim to get the majority of any driving done by 9am, say 100 miles or so. I’ll use something like Doodle to find the weekend that works for most as I avoid Facebook like the plague. Being car-folk, I'll be sure to avoid stuff like Le Mans weekend.

How?
For now, stick your name and rough location down in the thread and we’ll go from there - if we get less than 10 then great, if we get absolutely loads then we might have to go for first-come-first-served this time around. Final route details including a Google Maps link etc would be distributed close to the date via email.

Questions and suggestions very much welcome! Equally, if there’s already something similar happening and I’ve just missed it, please let me know biglaugh

In the time-honoured PH tradition, please keep things simple by cut/pasting the whole list of names and then adding yourself to the bottom. Here goes...

MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire

The1Driver

727 posts

151 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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Definitely up for this!

MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff

mikeyb1987

2,356 posts

153 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff
mikeyb1987 (Mike) - Cumbria! (but may try to tie it in with a visit to family in Oxfordshire)

NeilAndHisMini

152 posts

168 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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I'm in, date dependent!

MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff
mikeyb1987 (Mike) - Cumbria! (but may try to tie it in with a visit to family in Oxfordshire)
NeilAndHisMini (Neil) - West Sussex

lestiq

705 posts

168 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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Dates pending. I'm in : )

MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff
mikeyb1987 (Mike) - Cumbria! (but may try to tie it in with a visit to family in Oxfordshire)
NeilAndHisMini (Neil) - West Sussex
lestiq (Chris) - Hampshire

MDifficult

Original Poster:

2,019 posts

184 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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Great start! Welcome guys. If any of you know anyone else, please point them this way.

If there’s any comments or concerns on the stuff in the original post, let us all know.

Proper looking forward to it now!

mattf93

1,273 posts

114 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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As per above date pending I'm in.... may have to combine it with something else mind you as Im near Leicester so it's a good 2 hours - 2 1/2 + down to oxford.

MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff
mikeyb1987 (Mike) - Cumbria! (but may try to tie it in with a visit to family in Oxfordshire)
NeilAndHisMini (Neil) - West Sussex
lestiq (Chris) - Hampshire
mattf93 (Matt) - Rutland (smallest county in the uk)

there's another bloke locally with a GP2 that went out and bought one the following week after I got mine though frown

Fingers crossed I can figure something out - may be a very early start for me!

M

Bidsy26

1 posts

77 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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I'm up for this



MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff
mikeyb1987 (Mike) - Cumbria! (but may try to tie it in with a visit to family in Oxfordshire)
NeilAndHisMini (Neil) - West Sussex 
lestiq (Chris) - Hampshire
mattf93 (Matt) - Rutland (smallest county in the uk)
Bidsy26- Hampshire

NeilAndHisMini

152 posts

168 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff
mikeyb1987 (Mike) - Cumbria! (but may try to tie it in with a visit to family in Oxfordshire)
NeilAndHisMini (Neil) - West Sussex 
lestiq (Chris) - Hampshire
mattf93 (Matt) - Rutland (smallest county in the uk)
Bidsy26- Hampshire 
Chris D (Chris) - Berkshire

nufc

5 posts

182 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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Hello

Ian here interested in the run out, Im located to the South of Rutland near Stamford Lincs.

MDifficult

Original Poster:

2,019 posts

184 months

Wednesday 16th May 2018
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Excellent, welcome Ian!

Getting a good list...

MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff
mikeyb1987 (Mike) - Cumbria! (but may try to tie it in with a visit to family in Oxfordshire)
NeilAndHisMini (Neil) - West Sussex
lestiq (Chris) - Hampshire
mattf93 (Matt) - Rutland (smallest county in the uk)
Bidsy26- Hampshire
Chris D (Chris) - Berkshire
NUFC (Ian) - Rutland (still the smallest county in the uk, yet has 2 x GP2s!)

I’ll get the voting link out tomorrow to try and pin down some viable dates...

MDifficult

Original Poster:

2,019 posts

184 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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The Doodle poll for dates should be in your inbox. Let me know if any problems.

lestiq

705 posts

168 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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MDifficult said:
The Doodle poll for dates should be in your inbox. Let me know if any problems.
Mine ended up in the junk folder, but completed wink

MDifficult

Original Poster:

2,019 posts

184 months

Thursday 17th May 2018
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Boom! Another name on the list...

MDifficult (Tom) - Berkshire
The1Driver (Daniel) - Cardiff
mikeyb1987 (Mike) - Cumbria! (but may try to tie it in with a visit to family in Oxfordshire)
NeilAndHisMini (Neil) - West Sussex
lestiq (Chris) - Hampshire
mattf93 (Matt) - Rutland (smallest county in the uk)
Bidsy26- Hampshire
Chris D (Chris) - Berkshire
NUFC (Ian) - Rutland (still the smallest county in the uk, yet has 2 x GP2s!)
Graham D (Graham) - Berkshire

The1Driver

727 posts

151 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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Had no idea there were this many GP owners!

Should be a good turnout.

MDifficult

Original Poster:

2,019 posts

184 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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We're SO nearly there on dates. Neil, Dan, you have mail wink

MDifficult

Original Poster:

2,019 posts

184 months

Friday 18th May 2018
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Much Success! We're there thumbup

Please can everyone pencil the following dates into their diary:

Sunday 1st July - This is the date. THE DATE.
Sunday 22nd July - In case of pre-publicised national disaster, Icelandic dust-cloud, petrol shortage or other Act of God on the 1st of July, this is the BACKUP date.

Thanks everyone. Mission #1 complete. I'll start work on a suitable route and be back in touch soon.


trawler

178 posts

194 months

Sunday 20th May 2018
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The Mrs is keeping an eye on this with interest

MDifficult

Original Poster:

2,019 posts

184 months

Monday 21st May 2018
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trawler said:
The Mrs is keeping an eye on this with interest
If she (or you) has a GP2 and is keen to come along, drop me a PM if you like?

mattf93

1,273 posts

114 months

Tuesday 22nd May 2018
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nufc said:
Hello

Ian here interested in the run out, Im located to the South of Rutland near Stamford Lincs.
Hi Ian!

Sounds there's a 3rd Mini GP locally to me then!!! (common as muck wink )