2015 gtir 25 year anniversary (your thoughts please)

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F**k that... ill just bring a baseball bat   

Sounds like a great idea bob, hopefully it will be a good turnout on the day and it will be a great anniversary event for the old gal . I like the sound of Blyton park if you can get a good discount and it's fairly close to me

Great idea Bob! Depending on where, and when, you can count me in.
Not interested in POD though, straight lines are boring, and i have no intention of launching the car. But a track or airfield........... OOOH YEAH, now thats my cup of tea.

Cheers

Ben

ok ive made a poll up for this to see where the majority would prefer but my guess is that blyton park would be by far the best venue due to reasons ive already stated

but you decide guys it will be your day so we will go with the majority vote on this.

if you want something totally different to the above then please post your idea up

castle coombe also? id rather a track than a drag strip im not up for launching

I not bothered either way ps i dont go round launching my car but you all seem very scared to launch these cars done properly is no problem and track puts alot onto engine brakes tyres all just as likley to brake

Castle coombe for me, as its nice and close     

How about contacting lord march and see if we can get a special stand at the goodwood festival of speed   

location is a major factor if your looking for a good turn out so a central location is a must in my opinion
my vote would be something totally different like one of these big Rally day shows.. doubt that they have even seen a Gtir.. anyway all the best..

great ideas guys! hopefully my R will be on the road and fully done by 2015

I voted Blyton park for the reasons bob mentioned and its not far from me
It's early days yet though and someone might come up with a better idea as to were and what we should do.
I agree the central location is a must so everybody has a chance to come (and me living in the midland meens a central location will be spot on lol) I think Blyton park is a good contender and its also a fairly central location

yep sorry guys but central type location is only fair which is why I suggested blyton park

would be nice if we could all have it on our doorstep but ive got 3 or so hours travelling to blyton so you boogers can all travel aswell   

that's looking like the runaway leader at the moment anyways

This one's only a couple of miles from me..   
http://www.trackdays.co.uk/tracks/woodbridge.htm

But agree, got to be central and Blyton looks as good as any.

475 views and less than 20 votes

something just don't add up there lol : /

People will be looking in on the post to see what te replies are Bob, so the views are what I would expect
I have looked in on this thread about 5 times lol

Blyton aint really thaty central for people in cornwall etc .. i'd say around birmingham is more central for uk ..
Fook all the scots

add me to blyton

I though it was going to be more south than north!
It's 121 miles from me so god knows how far away it is for the guys down south?
Think you might find it's to far out?!?!
Silverstone was the last place and everyone that turned up ( over 60 ) were happy with that?!?
I think we need to get an idea of where everyone will be coming from and the majority. Determines where the location is.
Silverstone is a great place and there's track time available! Great track too.
Trax is a better show these days so it would be a viable option?
Donington is a great track aswel and japfest 2 is held there and a great show with track time.
So we could probs do a joint venture with them?
There's proberbly more jap events with a good following that have track time that we could use.
Which will give the Gtir a good audience apart from ourselves!

Well were ever it is I don't mind travelling seeing as its a special event, I think anywhere will do as long as its not located right out of the way.
I like your idea stu of trying to do some kind of joint venture so we can get more of an audience for the mass gathering of GTIR's lol

trouble with going to shows like trax there alot of boy racers, at least at a track day (whichever track) you can have fun and its for the more serious petrolheads imo!!

silvestone would be good and i missed it at the 20th ann but we need to try different places each time, I like the idea of goodwood, cos theres the main track and the hillclimb event and alot of prototype cars

I've read you can hire the top gear test track...
But that's south so a no go really

That's a point about all the boy races at trax events, I don't want to drive my car too hard but I know if there's a load of boy racers buzzing around I know I'll get roped into racing them every 2 minits lol

Top gear test track would be good fun especially if you could get top gear to agree to put even a small clip of us in the show (I doubt it lol)
And I wouldn't mind the traveling but I'm guessing top gear track will be expensive

why not make the le mans trip an anniversary trip aswell as a domestic one?

The lemans trip is too far and expensive for me other wise would be a brilliant idea. I don't mind travelling as long as its within the uk, preferably in england lol

I think the Leman trip woul limit the turnout to those that can afford it and who have the time to do it and those who are willing to travel, all the rest wouldn't turn up