Land's End to Ness Point, midsummers evening 2017

[iamdjka]

Hey Sypher,

Just left there, going to grab some food at Newlyn Meaderg quickly then heading down to Lands End for 7:30ish - see you there!

[chalda]

Just checked to see that the run is going on. Wish you best of luck! The druids at Stonehenge have already been there yesterday. Drive carefully.

[blaineuk]

Hope all goes well for everyone doing it tonight, we will be there Saturday hopefully the weather holds

[chriscoates]

Those of you who are doing the run tonight - be warned the M3 is CLOSED overnight eastbound between J5 and J2. If you're going the A303 route this will affect you.

Wouldn't recommend the M5/M4 route either as the M4 is closed between 18 and 17. Best bet is to go A303/A34/M4 or A303/M3, leave at J6 to take the A33 to M4 J11.

Good luck!

[No ideas for a name]

Go!

[blaineuk]

Did you make it?

[Bluesgirl]

Watching with interest. I was thinking of doing it on Saturday, but the weather forecast's bad and 450 miles in a 911 in the dark and wet might not be so much fun.

[blaineuk]

The weather forecast for weekend is improving.

[Mike1977]

blaineuk said:

Did you make it?

Apologies but I'm awful with names but...
Those that made it:

Orange S2000
White 3 Series
Black c63
Silver Supra
Blue TT
Orange GT86
Black MX5
The Saab boys (x2)
and of course the mighty blue Z4 Coupe

The only one I saw at the start but not the end was a red Ibiza.

[James2593]

Well done all, I'll be there Saturday with my co-driver in my MR2

Any pictures of last night/this morning?

Bluesgirl said:

Watching with interest. I was thinking of doing it on Saturday, but the weather forecast's bad and 450 miles in a 911 in the dark and wet might not be so much fun.

It's forecast cloudy but dry at weekend. High teens temperature wise.

[BURNIE]

OK Guys if you have never done this it's a must. Had a complete blast with great company. I will put some pics up asap.
900.2 miles from Lands end to Ness point and back to The Lizard, got home 10 mins ago. 15 hours driving
I left at 21.37, just in front of Gt86, which has to be said looks great, arrived at Ness point at 03.43 (6 hrs 6 mins), with 4 stops!!!
Plenty of time to watch all the others arrive and watch the sun rise. Fantastic time even got told to slow down by our local Police on the A30 as they went by me, whoops.

[Bluesgirl]

What route did you take at the top of the M3 BURNIE?

[BURNIE]

I followed the diversion signs but be very vigilant as the signs are not great and I lost ten mins also the lads in the AMG Merc did the same.. came out on the M25 one junction from Heathrow..
Are you doing friday or saturday?

Bluesgirl said:

What route did you take at the top of the M3 BURNIE?

[Bluesgirl]

I'm thinking about driving down from Surrey tomorrow and staying overnight in Liskeard. Trying to sort out logistics with my co-driver. I'm wondering if the traffic heading south-west on a Friday pm will be nightmarish tho'.

[Sypher]

It was a really good night, was nice meeting everyone too.

Supra will be back next year


I'll post pics from my GoPro and drone later today

[Bluesgirl]

So is this the list for Saturday so far?

Team Blaine
Team Heebeegeetee
JamesUK
Writhing
Bluesgirl - silver 997.1

Anyone else? Do you want to add your cars to the list so we know who's who?

I'm getting a bit

And I've got a job interview in the darkest depths of South East London in the morning.

[BURNIE]

enjoy it guys 6Hours and 6Mins I have just woken up man Im a zombie

Bluesgirl said:

So is this the list for Saturday so far?

Team Blaine
Team Heebeegeetee
JamesUK
Writhing
Bluesgirl - silver 997.1

Anyone else? Do you want to add your cars to the list so we know who's who?

I'm getting a bit

And I've got a job interview in the darkest depths of South East London in the morning.

[heebeegeetee]

Did enjoy this post in the other thread, so I'll try and make use of this.

Jim Sprinzel said:

If you're thinking of doing the run, here's a spreadsheet showing due times at driver change points along the route based on arriving at the finish bang on sunrise.

It may seem a bit geeky to some but it gives you an accurate idea if you're on schedule for a successful run or not.

If you're that keen, you can work out our exact position of the driver changes using Google Maps - it's what I used.

Some will question why we didn't have fewer driver changes and saved time that way but I wouldn't want to sit bored for two hours or more waiting on my turn to drive.

Also, it makes you both work more as a team, one driving, one navigating, watching the time schedule and keeping an eye out for one of Fox-Talbot's creations.

Apologies for uploading the time schedule as an image. New to this forum and can't work out yet how to upload an Excel spreadsheet.

Jim.

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/post.asp?h=0&f=65&t=1417469&r=28959837&m=quoteReply

[BURNIE]

Pictures

[BURNIE]

Struggling to put pics up The forums are failing I suppose that's why Fact Book has taken over smoother to deal with pity..