Auto-Italia-italian car day
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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?Was in the area, but didn't go to the event. Saw loads of Fiats 500s and Cinqucentos. (mainly Yoofs who were Vaping )
Lots and lots of Maranellos stuff, some Masers and many many Lambos. Great looking Hurancan (possibly ) in red with dispersal pattern wrap) And quite a few Alfa 4cs
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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. 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.
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
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