Surrey Run V: The Return of the Driving - 18 Jan

[jeremyc]

Its time to blow away those festive season cobwebs with a blast along the best driving roads in the south of England.

I'm planning a leisurely drive to start just after sunrise on Sunday 18 January close to J9 of the M25 and end at Racing Green (2-3 hours later) for a gawp at their collection of late Christmas presents (and who knows, maybe a cup of coffee as well).

This could also be a fun pre-cursor to the lunchtime meeting at The Royal Oak which is just down the road.

Everyone and anyone is welcome: reply to this thread or send me an email through my profile and I'll make sure that you get full details and directions for the run when they are ready.

[jeremyc]

RiverGirrl said:

Can we make it a semi-reasonable hour, for those of us coming from further afield?? Like Bucks? Please??

Errr... NO!
It won't be too early a start, given that it won't be light until about 8am.

If its still a problem for you then I'll get you the details of the hotel just up the road. Mind you, at the previous (earlier) start the Essex and Kent crews didn't have any trouble getting there on time - I guess its only a problem for 'Gentrified of Bucks'.

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RiverGirrl said:

..so what time are you thinking of? I could handle leaving HW at 8am and meet up at 0830/0845...is this the ballpark time?

Mmmm, depends just how large your ballpark is.

I think you'll need to set your alarm 1 hour earlier so you get to us at 07:45 for an 08:00 departure. That way we hopefully get to miss most of the traffic and have all of those lovely roads to ourselves. Oh, and as is traditional we'll be waking up Petworth: it just isn't the same if we arrive later in the morning.

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Graham.J said:

Don't think I'll be doing anything, what time are you hoping to arrive at Racing Green? 10 ish?

I'm not sure of the exact timing yet Graham, but I would expect it to be around 11am.

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Bob the Planner said:

..expecting to be in Midhurst at about 10:40 or so. Any chance of a joining with you SR5 ?

I'll let you know when I have a better idea of my route timings Bob.

Seems you are some way ahead of me in the planning stakes....

[jeremyc]

Right, just checked the route : best ever, even if I do say so myself.

Prepare yourself for just over ninety miles of driving nirvana, and not a (fixed) camera in sight.

[jeremyc]

OK, having checked that all the roads I planned to use still exist , here are the details of the start location and time and a rough idea of when we'll get to Racing Green.

Directions for the route will be emailed to all those who have replied on this thread or emailed me. If anyone else would like a copy, contact me through my profile.

We will be meeting in the car park outside The Tussaud Group offices in Silverglade Business Park, Kingston Road (KT9 2NN) at 7.45am, aiming for an 8.00am departure (sunrise). The business park is on the A243 very close to junction 9 of the M25 (on the right if coming from the M25, close to Mole Valley TVR and just after the BP station).
Map here

The route is about 90 miles and it will probably take 2-2.5 hours until we reach our destination in Ash Vale here.

Hopefully with our early start we'll have the luxury of the roads to ourselves - and what great roads they are!

>> Edited by jeremyc on Wednesday 7th January 20:00

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Bob the Planner said:

..expecting to be in Midhurst at about 10:40 or so. Any chance of a joining with you SR5 ?

Now I know where we're going, it doesn't look like we will meet up with your group Bob: I reckon we'll be passing though Midhurst about 1-1.5 hours before you.

Anyway, we'll keep an eye open: can't be too difficult to miss two convoys of TVRs can it?

[jeremyc]

I've emailed directions to everyone who has indicated an interest on this thread or directly emailed me.

If I've missed anyone please let me know.

[jeremyc]

Should be a very good run: a fantastic variety of automotive porn coupled with some great driving roads.

There will also be plenty of people coming along - at the last count I've sent out over 35 sets of directions, some to people organising small groups.

Don't forget to bring your video and still cameras to help create footage for the now traditional (and award winning ) DVD from Sleepy-Fish productions.

>> Edited by jeremyc on Wednesday 14th January 13:58

[jeremyc]

wildego1 said:

Weather forSunday looking good! Or so says the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=3445

We'll go with the BBC then, 'cos The Weather Channel thinks it is going to rain.

Pesky weather forecasts.

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mrjohnnunney said:

Ooooooh, am I the only one without route details, just say if you don't want me to come! ;-)

John: I've emailed you the route details twice now (they are in a document attached to the email).

If you haven't received them then perhaps we need to try a different email address....

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Edt said:

Copp, I dub you 'The Destroyer of Saturdays'. Just spent 5 hours on the car. Utterly buggered now & this morning's hangover that had passed has returned. Do hope it doesnt pee down tomorrow morning!

It'll be worth it Ed, raining or not.

Did I say that a clean car was a prerequisite? I think not! Mine certainly hasn't been washed today - good job since its been raining this evening.