10th Anniversary Asda Charity day at Bruntingthorpe - GT-R Register - Official Nissan Skyline and GTR Owners Club forum

nurburgringgtr · 11th August 2012, 10:02 PM

What a great day with a fantastic amount of money raised.
Everyone had fun and apart from the queues and a few logistical issues, the GTROC can be proud of what we achieved and to see the delight on the faces of the passengers when we gave them a ride of a lifetime was a picture.

For me as always, the kids did it for me, and I don't deny the odd tear with some of the terminally ill children that actually hugged me after the laps.

A few mechanical issues that Rog Burgess sorted out for me via Iain Litchfield via cables and laptops, but I was delighted with the performance of the car and although I have gone through another set of tyres and destroyed my brakes - so what.

To cap the day off, Jake Hill (the GTR Gimp and Trackday coach) won his first Ginetta Supercup G55 race today, from the front row, and will be starting the second race tomorrow from pole position. All live on ITV4 from 11am tomorrow morning.

Thanks for all the organisation etc
John

ROG350Z · 11th August 2012, 10:39 PM

Hear hear John,

Echo that - GTR brings a ton of emotions but I would agree a massive lump in the throat when the kids were grinning and couldn't thank you enough.

You could always do more laps for the cause and next year should be even better. Am booked in already and had a long chat to one of the organisers (Chris) at the end who passed on his heartfelt thanks to the drivers and all those who turned out to help manage the massive queue of people wanting to ride with the GTROC.

Well done to Malc and Dave W for organising it all and here's to next year. And well done Jake!

blue34 · 11th August 2012, 11:20 PM

A huge thank you team GTROC at On-Your-Marks. Everyone pulled together to get the very best we could from the day.

Unusually high levels of traffic meant drivers simply could not get out on track as quickly as we would have liked, this affected all the teams but even more so those teams furthest from the circuit start line such as ourselves.

The organisers were incredibly grateful for our efforts and in speaking to them they acknowledged that they may perhaps have simply had too much going on today. Too many stoppages for aircraft, lorry and other vehicle movements and perhaps too many club gates.

We were once again extremely popular from the moment the track opened albeit later than scheduled. At the start of the lunchbreak we had 30 to 40 people in the queue. We therefore adopted a system of allowing people to sign up and being given an approximate time to return this was much appreciated by passengers.

We had our allotted number of cars, and at times more.. on track throughout the day with all of the marques being fully utilised by eager passengers. As the afternoon progressed and some other teams became quieter our drivers were able to take advantage of a smaller queue and put on a fantastic effort right up to the cut off at 5pm

Special thank you's to.. Well.. honestly, everyone involved today. Our fantastic drivers, all those who helped with loading the passengers and running the desk.

Our total for the day was 1205.00GBP

We were just pipped by the Subarus who's total included a generous single donation.

Thank you again all those who supported the event £1205.00 raised will make a huge difference.

The ASDA On-Your-Marks GTROC Team charity day hall of fame:

Paul_K - Driving
Andrew186 - Driving
_shaun_ - Driving
Mudflap - Driving and Maureen on driver lanyard dispersal & taking money thank you.
nurburgringgtr - Driving (lots) and Mary doing sterling work on the desk thank you
sin - Driving
rog350z - Driving
EPRacing - Driving
rblvjenkins - Driving
Nickgtr35 - Driving - and a massive help with loading people into cars
JapFreak786 - Spent most of the day in the sun loading cars while fasting, thank you
davewilkins - Driving, and helping organise
Arcam - Driving
Aerodramatics - Driving
Charles Charlie - driving
Steve in "scarlet" - Driving
Hockey-boy - Driving
purleskyline - driving
Ludders - driving and fantastic work loading people into cars and helping run the afternoon lists, thank you
David - Driving
Sumo69 - Driving
blue34 - organising

matt33gtr · 12th August 2012, 07:55 AM

Well done guys. Will join you next year!

davewilkins · 12th August 2012, 08:28 AM

Absolutely fantastic day.
Can't believe how much harder this year was than previous so my hat goes off to how well we managed the club.
Brilliant turn out of drivers.
Everyone who went out in my car was impressed.
Really enjoyed Friday night.
I don't get to do much with the club these days and this weekend had reminded me what a great club I am part of.
Next year

Just a note. For the first time I made it to the rally cars (part of their track ran past turns 1 and 2 of our track. Ten minute queue and then got into the next rally car (was not allowed to pick the car

) and was lucky to get a Lotus sunbeam that spent most of its time sideways and spun twice. Driver gave it 100%. Best pax ride I have ever had. Well worth the walk.

blue34 · 12th August 2012, 08:45 AM

Top job Dave, thanks for all your support

Friday night was fun and good to all be together around one table. I thought the carvery and buffet was pretty good overall and very good value.

Aerodramatics · 12th August 2012, 09:33 AM

Yes the carvery was decent after all and at £15 a serving, good value. Next year they might add beef too

A great day and plenty of cars to support the 6 track lanyards our club had; I found myself talking to punters and let them sit in the car, have a play with the engine on and answer all their questions. As a by-product, I think we do a fantastic job to win new sales for NMGB!!!

The main thing is the fun it brings to the adults and their children; the event gives them a real buzz and together with the lifetime wishes for the ill children make the day totally worthwhile.

Great day, great club, great people. What more could we want? Top banana

Nickgtr35 · 12th August 2012, 11:00 AM

+1 to all posts, enjoyed the buffet dinner evening and meeting you all.
Really enjoyed the day at Bruntingthorpe, pleasure to help all the kids and adults in and out of the cars, they all had a big smile on their face. cheers Nick

paul__k · 12th August 2012, 12:15 PM

4th time for me and another great day out.

Everyone I took out asked to be driven super quick and thats what they got.
Every one of them new the GTR was where it was at.

One woman said she had tingles down her spine!!

Tyres are now nicely filed on the outside edge and even the AP front discs have started to craze but who cares!

2 highlights for me were blasting up the straight as the Vulcan was coming in. It was bang in line with the runway and heading straight at me at one point i was starting to wonder if it was going to land on me...

Sally and I had a go on the back of the trike with the disabled guy driving that we met in the bar. He came into the 180 degree bend at 120 mph was quite butt clenching...

Well done to everyone who helped to organise this. In the queue I had a long chat with a lady who thought the drivers or the club were funded in some way.
Maybe we should put up a notice at the gate to say that 100% of the money goes to charity and no body wether driving or organising takes any money.

purleskyline · 12th August 2012, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by paul__k

4th time for me and another great day out.

Everyone I took out asked to be driven super quick and thats what they got.
Every one of them new the GTR was where it was at.

One woman said she had tingles down her spine!!

Tyres are now nicely filed on the outside edge and even the AP front discs have started to craze but who cares!

2 highlights for me were blasting up the straight as the Vulcan was coming in. It was bang in line with the runway and heading straight at me at one point i was starting to wonder if it was going to land on me...

Sally and I had a go on the back of the trike with the disabled guy driving that we met in the bar. He came into the 180 degree bend at 120 mph was quite butt clenching...

Well done to everyone who helped to organise this. In the queue I had a long chat with a lady who thought the drivers or the club were funded in some way.
Maybe we should put up a notice at the gate to say that 100% of the money goes to charity and no body wether driving or organising takes any money.

i too was asked if i worked for nissan and if the car was mine.

good day had by all,plenty of laps,lots of 4 wheel sliding,screaming from one girl,gasp from everyone round 1st corner at about 100 and all very happy customers apart from one very quiet teenager

see you all next year.

paul.

JapFreak786 · 12th August 2012, 01:26 PM

Paul I'm guessing you were in the 33 with CE28's on and a roll cage? If so, you had a massive grin on your face the whole day as well after taking passengers out which was awesome, love that 33 of yours and I need to be taken for a spin in it next year! A lot of people said how fast your car was

Arcam · 12th August 2012, 02:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JapFreak786

Paul I'm guessing you were in the 33 with CE28's on and a roll cage? If so, you had a massive grin on your face the whole day as well after taking passengers out which was awesome, love that 33 of yours and I need to be taken for a spin in it next year! A lot of people said how fast your car was

Now then JF, what happened to my pen that I lent you and I said to make sure I got it back???

A good day overall with the afternoon improving (looked like less trucks were running), the Subarus looked very smart as we pulled into the first bays and appears to be very well organised, but I think I saw only one on track all day and I spent 5 hours on circuit!

ROG350Z · 12th August 2012, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arcam

Now then JF, what happened to my pen that I lent you and I said to make sure I got it back???

A good day overall with the afternoon improving (looked like less trucks were running), the Subarus looked very smart as we pulled into the first bays and appears to be very well organised, but I think I saw only one on track all day and I spent 5 hours on circuit!

I had a chat to organisers at end (really nice guys) and P1 Crew won't be nicking our bays next year! Next year we know we can setup night before so be ready to go and 9.30 AM start! Hope it will be like the afternoon session all day! Just got home and still buzzing - re bedded brakes and all seems ok (very grumbly after event) and tyres still have a tiny bit of life!!

JapFreak786 · 12th August 2012, 02:43 PM

Er, ask Jeff with that one sorry

, I did say you needed to back my bad

rblvjenkins · 12th August 2012, 02:56 PM

Hi all - great day yesterday! Here's a quick in-car video from yesterday for those that haven't been there before to show the layout:-

Bruntingthorpe - YouTube

One thing. I don't want to be a kill-joy, but since driving home yesterday there's been something on my mind and I'm sorry but I really need to air it, so here goes!

Some folk there yesterday were claiming quite outrageous speeds on the final straight (in excess of 180mph). In my opinion that's WAY too fast for a day when you have the public in your car. In fact, I would never attempt 180mph on that particular circuit layout full stop. I only say this to avert the potential danger of someone trying to emulate 180mph next year. You may well get there, but whether you stop in time before you run out of road is another question. The top speed adds nothing to the passenger enjoyment, and each single mph increases the risk. Drive as fast as you are truly comfortable, then slow down. Saves brakes, and takes away risk. If you don't believe me about the risks just google what happened to a Lamborghini driver and his son at Woodford aerodrome in June this year.....

Sorry if this sounds negative, but those of you who know me know that I have been involved in Motorsport for a long time (I am an ARDS level A instructor) and have seen first hand what can go wrong. Let's make sure we keep our presence at Bruntingthorpe as fun, AND SAFE, as possible!!

11th August 2012, 10:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
nurburgringgtr nurburgringgtr is unsure who he is Executive GTR Owners Club Member Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Oxfordshire Cars owned: Audi RS4, 911 GT3, 09 GTR & MY11 GTR Posts: 859	10th Anniversary Asda Charity day at Bruntingthorpe What a great day with a fantastic amount of money raised. Everyone had fun and apart from the queues and a few logistical issues, the GTROC can be proud of what we achieved and to see the delight on the faces of the passengers when we gave them a ride of a lifetime was a picture. For me as always, the kids did it for me, and I don't deny the odd tear with some of the terminally ill children that actually hugged me after the laps. A few mechanical issues that Rog Burgess sorted out for me via Iain Litchfield via cables and laptops, but I was delighted with the performance of the car and although I have gone through another set of tyres and destroyed my brakes - so what. To cap the day off, Jake Hill (the GTR Gimp and Trackday coach) won his first Ginetta Supercup G55 race today, from the front row, and will be starting the second race tomorrow from pole position. All live on ITV4 from 11am tomorrow morning. Thanks for all the organisation etc John __________________ GTROC Motorsport Coordinator

11th August 2012, 10:39 PM	#2 (permalink)
ROG350Z ROG350Z is looking forward to N24! GTROC Board Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: London/Darlington Cars owned: GT-R R35 MY'10 Posts: 2,133	Hear hear John, Echo that - GTR brings a ton of emotions but I would agree a massive lump in the throat when the kids were grinning and couldn't thank you enough. You could always do more laps for the cause and next year should be even better. Am booked in already and had a long chat to one of the organisers (Chris) at the end who passed on his heartfelt thanks to the drivers and all those who turned out to help manage the massive queue of people wanting to ride with the GTROC. Well done to Malc and Dave W for organising it all and here's to next year. And well done Jake! __________________ Vice Chairman - GTR Owners Club MY'10 R35 GT-R. GTC Titan 90MM Exhaust, Litchfield Cast Downpipes, Litchfield Bosch 1,100cc Injectors, Litchfield Large Bore Intakes, Litchfield ECUTek Stage Four Tune with MY12 Gearbox Software. AP Racing Slotted Disks all round with Carbotech XP8 Pads. GTC 4 Way Light Kit, Knight Racer CD Carbon Rear Spoiler, Carbon Wrapped Lowers, Carbon Blue/Black Valet Magic Wheels.

11th August 2012, 11:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
blue34 blue34 is GTROC GTROC Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Hampshire Cars owned: R34GTR Posts: 2,996	A huge thank you team GTROC at On-Your-Marks. Everyone pulled together to get the very best we could from the day. Unusually high levels of traffic meant drivers simply could not get out on track as quickly as we would have liked, this affected all the teams but even more so those teams furthest from the circuit start line such as ourselves. The organisers were incredibly grateful for our efforts and in speaking to them they acknowledged that they may perhaps have simply had too much going on today. Too many stoppages for aircraft, lorry and other vehicle movements and perhaps too many club gates. We were once again extremely popular from the moment the track opened albeit later than scheduled. At the start of the lunchbreak we had 30 to 40 people in the queue. We therefore adopted a system of allowing people to sign up and being given an approximate time to return this was much appreciated by passengers. We had our allotted number of cars, and at times more.. on track throughout the day with all of the marques being fully utilised by eager passengers. As the afternoon progressed and some other teams became quieter our drivers were able to take advantage of a smaller queue and put on a fantastic effort right up to the cut off at 5pm Special thank you's to.. Well.. honestly, everyone involved today. Our fantastic drivers, all those who helped with loading the passengers and running the desk. Our total for the day was 1205.00GBP We were just pipped by the Subarus who's total included a generous single donation. Thank you again all those who supported the event £1205.00 raised will make a huge difference. The ASDA On-Your-Marks GTROC Team charity day hall of fame: Paul_K - Driving Andrew186 - Driving _shaun_ - Driving Mudflap - Driving and Maureen on driver lanyard dispersal & taking money thank you. nurburgringgtr - Driving (lots) and Mary doing sterling work on the desk thank you sin - Driving rog350z - Driving EPRacing - Driving rblvjenkins - Driving Nickgtr35 - Driving - and a massive help with loading people into cars JapFreak786 - Spent most of the day in the sun loading cars while fasting, thank you davewilkins - Driving, and helping organise Arcam - Driving Aerodramatics - Driving Charles Charlie - driving Steve in "scarlet" - Driving Hockey-boy - Driving purleskyline - driving Ludders - driving and fantastic work loading people into cars and helping run the afternoon lists, thank you David - Driving Sumo69 - Driving blue34 - organising __________________ Last edited by blue34; 12th August 2012 at 08:29 AM..

12th August 2012, 07:55 AM	#4 (permalink)
matt33gtr matt33gtr is Back on the road! GTR Register User Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: berkshire Posts: 71	Well done guys. Will join you next year! __________________

12th August 2012, 08:28 AM	#5 (permalink)
davewilkins davewilkins is a GTR owner again Executive GTR Owners Club Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Derby, UK Cars owned: 1991 R32 GTR track toy, Ford KA Posts: 6,976	Absolutely fantastic day. Can't believe how much harder this year was than previous so my hat goes off to how well we managed the club. Brilliant turn out of drivers. Everyone who went out in my car was impressed. Really enjoyed Friday night. I don't get to do much with the club these days and this weekend had reminded me what a great club I am part of. Next year Just a note. For the first time I made it to the rally cars (part of their track ran past turns 1 and 2 of our track. Ten minute queue and then got into the next rally car (was not allowed to pick the car ) and was lucky to get a Lotus sunbeam that spent most of its time sideways and spun twice. Driver gave it 100%. Best pax ride I have ever had. Well worth the walk. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. Last edited by blue34; 12th August 2012 at 08:39 AM..

12th August 2012, 08:45 AM	#6 (permalink)
blue34 blue34 is GTROC GTROC Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Hampshire Cars owned: R34GTR Posts: 2,996	Top job Dave, thanks for all your support Friday night was fun and good to all be together around one table. I thought the carvery and buffet was pretty good overall and very good value. __________________

12th August 2012, 09:33 AM	#7 (permalink)
Aerodramatics Aerodramatics is online, on his feet and enjoying motoring in his GT-R again. Yaay! Executive GTR Owners Club Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: North West Cars owned: Azure GT Posts: 1,164	Yes the carvery was decent after all and at £15 a serving, good value. Next year they might add beef too A great day and plenty of cars to support the 6 track lanyards our club had; I found myself talking to punters and let them sit in the car, have a play with the engine on and answer all their questions. As a by-product, I think we do a fantastic job to win new sales for NMGB!!! The main thing is the fun it brings to the adults and their children; the event gives them a real buzz and together with the lifetime wishes for the ill children make the day totally worthwhile. Great day, great club, great people. What more could we want? Top banana __________________

12th August 2012, 11:00 AM	#8 (permalink)
Nickgtr35 Nickgtr35 is Looking forward to the sun Executive GTR Owners Club Member Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Wales & Spain Cars owned: GTR 35,Volvo XC70, Vauxhall Corsa S ecoflex Posts: 298	+1 to all posts, enjoyed the buffet dinner evening and meeting you all. Really enjoyed the day at Bruntingthorpe, pleasure to help all the kids and adults in and out of the cars, they all had a big smile on their face. cheers Nick __________________

12th August 2012, 12:15 PM	#9 (permalink)
paul__k paul__k is unaware they can edit their status Executive GTR Owners Club Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Hampshire Posts: 879	4th time for me and another great day out. Everyone I took out asked to be driven super quick and thats what they got. Every one of them new the GTR was where it was at. One woman said she had tingles down her spine!! Tyres are now nicely filed on the outside edge and even the AP front discs have started to craze but who cares! 2 highlights for me were blasting up the straight as the Vulcan was coming in. It was bang in line with the runway and heading straight at me at one point i was starting to wonder if it was going to land on me... Sally and I had a go on the back of the trike with the disabled guy driving that we met in the bar. He came into the 180 degree bend at 120 mph was quite butt clenching... Well done to everyone who helped to organise this. In the queue I had a long chat with a lady who thought the drivers or the club were funded in some way. Maybe we should put up a notice at the gate to say that 100% of the money goes to charity and no body wether driving or organising takes any money. __________________ R35 Black Black

12th August 2012, 01:26 PM	#11 (permalink)
JapFreak786 JapFreak786 is enjoying a 5l V10 Executive GTR Owners Club Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6,868	Paul I'm guessing you were in the 33 with CE28's on and a roll cage? If so, you had a massive grin on your face the whole day as well after taking passengers out which was awesome, love that 33 of yours and I need to be taken for a spin in it next year! A lot of people said how fast your car was __________________ GTROC West Midlands Rep 2005 BMW M5 - 5l V10 :D

12th August 2012, 02:43 PM	#14 (permalink)
JapFreak786 JapFreak786 is enjoying a 5l V10 Executive GTR Owners Club Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Birmingham Posts: 6,868	Er, ask Jeff with that one sorry , I did say you needed to back my bad __________________ GTROC West Midlands Rep 2005 BMW M5 - 5l V10 :D

12th August 2012, 02:56 PM	#15 (permalink)
rblvjenkins rblvjenkins is in his new house that he's just built Executive GTR Owners Club Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Swansea Cars owned: Litchfield Stage 4 DMG R35 Black Edition, Subaru Legacy 3.0R Spec B estate (tow car) + CivicR race car. Custodian of LP670SV Posts: 419	Hi all - great day yesterday! Here's a quick in-car video from yesterday for those that haven't been there before to show the layout:- Bruntingthorpe - YouTube One thing. I don't want to be a kill-joy, but since driving home yesterday there's been something on my mind and I'm sorry but I really need to air it, so here goes! Some folk there yesterday were claiming quite outrageous speeds on the final straight (in excess of 180mph). In my opinion that's WAY too fast for a day when you have the public in your car. In fact, I would never attempt 180mph on that particular circuit layout full stop. I only say this to avert the potential danger of someone trying to emulate 180mph next year. You may well get there, but whether you stop in time before you run out of road is another question. The top speed adds nothing to the passenger enjoyment, and each single mph increases the risk. Drive as fast as you are truly comfortable, then slow down. Saves brakes, and takes away risk. If you don't believe me about the risks just google what happened to a Lamborghini driver and his son at Woodford aerodrome in June this year..... Sorry if this sounds negative, but those of you who know me know that I have been involved in Motorsport for a long time (I am an ARDS level A instructor) and have seen first hand what can go wrong. Let's make sure we keep our presence at Bruntingthorpe as fun, AND SAFE, as possible!! __________________ RBLVJ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

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