Castle Combe Day of the Champions - This Saturday (27th)

[Westyfield2]

This saturday it's the annual Stroke Association charity day at Castle Combe, where a variety of racing, sports and exotic cars will be on hand to take people on hot laps around the Castle Combe racing circuit with the proceeds from the day going to the Stroke Association.

TOURING CAR STAR AT ‘DAY OF THE CHAMPIONS’

One of the UK’s most successful British Touring Car Championship stars, Anthony Reid, will be giving members of the public the ride of a lifetime at the annual Stroke Association ‘Day of the Champions’ at the Castle Combe Circuit on Saturday October 27.
Reid, a BTCC Masters Champion and veteran of Le Mans and various other international racing categories is one of a number of drivers offering their services at this annual event supported by Bristol SEAT.
For a donation of between £30 and £50 the public will be able to ride in a variety of race and rally cars, some of which are regularly in action at the Wiltshire track on it's race days.
The event has raised considerable sums for the Stroke Association charity over the years with many celebrity drivers featuring at the event in various historic and modern machinery.
The day starts at 9:00 AM and carries on till dusk.
General admission is £5 for Adults and Free for Children, with free parking too.

I've seen a copy of the drivers list and heres a very short snippet of it:
Metro Turbo's, 205 GTi's, Golf 20v Turbo, Evo, Westfield's, Caterham's, M3's, 911's, five Radical SR3's, Ferrari 355 328 348 456 575, Ultima Spyder, Marlin's, E-Type Jag, Ariel Atom, Corvette, AC Cobra, Elise's and more...

So yea, there's plenty of interesting cars you can get rides in, and its supporting a very worthwhile charity!

Dislaimer: I'm not an employee of CC or the Stroke Association, so am not making any 'profit' from this plug!

 

[Westyfield2]

Nice, might go to that

Cool

Just checked BBC weather and it's forecast to be dry (was wet last year.)

 

[Westyfield2]

I went, Dad was meant to be driving the Westfield but it killed its gearbox a month ago so he wasn't driving, and we only stayed till lunch.
Still managed to play around with the 300mm IS and looks like some shots came out well.

By the time we left, the Westfields had no paying punters, and Chris hadn't even done any practice laps in his Ultima! Shame about the weather really, this is now the 13th year at Combe and it's rained for the last 3, but Nick was still doing a grand job on the mic gathering up what punters there were!

You see the radicals out there? Could see there aero-dynamics working in the spray coming off the spoilers.