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Auto-Italia-italian car day

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sb-1

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3,315 posts

262 months

Sunday 23rd April 2017
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Siy

455 posts

218 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Will be there for this one - anyone else?

lucido grigio

44,044 posts

162 months

Tuesday 25th April 2017
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Yep...I'm in.

keith HF

49 posts

174 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Yea i'll be there just brought my ticket online :-)

P100

617 posts

205 months

Wednesday 26th April 2017
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Was going to come along in my Integrale, but its shat its clutch again after only 250Km`s frown

Spinakerr

1,164 posts

144 months

Friday 28th April 2017
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I'll be there bright and early in the black 164 - all four wheels back on the ground this afternoon and all gears now engaging. Alarm set for tyre dressing and super resin polish.

See you there.

red_duke

799 posts

180 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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Don't bother. Place is a bomb site. Ferraris parked in a dust bowl. Paid my £16 and drove straight out and back home.

mattwhite709

328 posts

98 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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I will be heading down around lunch time with the family.

markiii

3,560 posts

193 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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red_duke said:
Don't bother. Place is a bomb site. Ferraris parked in a dust bowl. Paid my £16 and drove straight out and back home.
yep, right mess down there, and teh marshalling was st


lucido grigio

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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I had a great day,arrived 9,left at 2.45.

Car of the show.


Rich_W

12,548 posts

211 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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red_duke said:
Don't bother. Place is a bomb site. Ferraris parked in a dust bowl. Paid my £16 and drove straight out and back home.
Oh No. Not Dust on a Ferrari! How did you survive?


laugh

Was in the area, but didn't go to the event. Saw loads of Fiats 500s and Cinqucentos. (mainly Yoofs who were Vaping rolleyes )

Lots and lots of Maranellos stuff, some Masers and many many Lambos. Great looking Hurancan (possibly boxedin ) in red with dispersal pattern wrap) And quite a few Alfa 4cs

TCEvo

12,622 posts

201 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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Just got back, enjoyed that; hadn't been for a few years - seemed much busier.

decent amount of interesting stuff and a few things i hadn't seen before - in particular one of the Fiat Sports with '70s multi-coloured seats stood out for me.

Not particularly interested in lots of matching modern Ferrari's, and it was overkill on modded Fiats, but each to their own.


Keith ctr

233 posts

173 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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Was a nice day out as usual, however definitely lacking in show/special cars outside the clubhouse compared to previous years and the track demos were boring with less cars and less variety, I appreciate time constraints are an issue.

Hats off to the Alfa owners club(s), best display of Alfa's I've seen at this event in a long time, far more interesting than the Ferrari's, Lambo's/Audi's. Being in the Alfa carpark was a throw back to being at the show 10+ years ago. Also a great turnout of 4C's.

As per usual though, quite why the super car owners (mostly Ferrari this year) feel the need to demonstration they can drive like a tt on the 30mph road exiting the Mercedes Benz World is beyond me.

Great day out smile

wal 45

654 posts

179 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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Absolutely agree with a couple of the posts above, it was a utter shambles today especially considering the hiked £16 admission.

Been going to this for quite a few years and today's event was shockingly organised, the building works at Brooklands and the nightmare queue off the A3 probably didn't help but I think Brooklands(and Auto Italia) need to take a long hard look at today. Access to the site just doesn't need to be through one gate and this would undoubtedly speed things up, maybe though the event has simply outgrown Brooklands for marque organised parking...

Although today was busy I've seen it a whole lot busier and the chaos with parking didn't happen then, total lack of effective marshaling seemed to compound the building works "issues".

I'll certainly be giving it a miss next year.





coolchris

924 posts

201 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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Good event massive turnout I do chuckle to myself though when I see people decked out head to toe in there Ferrari or lambo clothing

countzero

392 posts

217 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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AlexHat

1,327 posts

118 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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wal 45 said:
Absolutely agree with a couple of the posts above, it was a utter shambles today especially considering the hiked £16 admission.

Been going to this for quite a few years and today's event was shockingly organised, the building works at Brooklands and the nightmare queue off the A3 probably didn't help but I think Brooklands(and Auto Italia) need to take a long hard look at today. Access to the site just doesn't need to be through one gate and this would undoubtedly speed things up, maybe though the event has simply outgrown Brooklands for marque organised parking...

Although today was busy I've seen it a whole lot busier and the chaos with parking didn't happen then, total lack of effective marshaling seemed to compound the building works "issues".

I'll certainly be giving it a miss next year.
Today was the worst traffic getting to the event I've seen (though I only have the last couple of years to compare, it was worse than getting into the FoS). For me it's always been £16 but today was the shortest I've spent there.

One of the drivers driving round merc world's track said they all required helmets to drive on track and I noticed they had a pace car driven by (i presume) a Merc AMG driver to ensure nobody did anything stupid like last year

spareparts

6,777 posts

226 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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Entered around 0945 through MBWorld entrance (empty) and it was a short 2min wait before getting marshalled into position. Entrance via the main entrance competing with regular public traffic is just madness.

lucido grigio

44,044 posts

162 months

Saturday 29th April 2017
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I wasn't aware that entry via MB world was available,just like 99% of everybody else.

Perhaps they should make it clearer.

Took me 45minutes to do the last half mile via the main entrance.

coetzeeh

2,641 posts

235 months

Sunday 30th April 2017
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countzero said:
Thank you. Beautiful photos.