"Dad's Day Out" at Dunsfold Aerodrome, home of Top Gear. The day was organised jointly by the PetrolHead Nivana Club and Club Scuderia. Club members volunteered their time and their cars to offer fast passenger rides around the Top Gear track. Proceeds went to the Chidrens Trust Charity.
My Sebring was in the static display on the runway. I left the track action to much faster cars and instead took a camera along to video the action.
Bachi's Ariel Atom was one of the fastest accelerating cars there with a 0-60mph in 2.7seconds! Nancy took me round the track in it. Have you ever put your hands in one of those Dyson Airblade hand driers and watched the skin go all wobbly when it's blasted by the air? Well thats what happens to your face when the wind blasts you in an Atom! The acceleration is awesome! It was overtaken by a KTM though and in his desperate attempts to regain the lead Bachi span out, luckily I had the camera mounted on the car at the time so can now share that moment with the world......sorry Bachi :-) and apologies to Peter too, who realising he was going to fast for the corner in his Murcialago, overshot rather than risk a spin and headed off the track in the wrong direction al la Jonathan Ross. I can't help wondering if I'll be invited back if I keep catching their little faux pas on camera. Ah well, it'll be fun watching it back at the Ace Cafe club meet next week and it was all for a good cause.
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