Britcar 24hrs - 2008

[jack_christie]

Silverstone Britcar24hr
2008
Sept 20/21th

http://www.britcar24hr.co.uk

https://pic.armedcats.net/a/an/anonymous/2008/08/01/britcar_24hrs_2008_poster_385.jpg



Entry list is due on August 15th.

 

[anti-net]

I'm thinking about going to Silverstone, its a bit of a trip from Cornwall and will most likely will be fucking expensive on the train but it would be my first 24hr race!

anyone think TG will be on the entry list?

 

[jack_christie]

I'm thinking about going to Silverstone, its a bit of a trip from Cornwall and will most likely will be fucking expensive on the train but it would be my first 24hr race!

anyone think TG will be on the entry list?

I wish you well. Taking a train to Silverstone is brave. Getting from train station to the circuit should be fun

 

[Steve Levin]

If we'd planned better we could enter and run our own car!

I could still get my FIA license pretty easily. We should do this!

Steve

 

[Donington]

I'm going again!

 

[Cobol74]

I'd be up for it if TG are there I think - the wife may let me, I'll do some shopping with her and then beg. ...

 

[optimusprime]

If we'd planned better we could enter and run our own car!

I could still get my FIA license pretty easily. We should do this!

Steve

If we're going to make a FinalGear privateer run at a major endurance event, we'll need 1) at least a $30,000 budget, 2) a FinalGear technology center, 3) a mechanic called Steve, and 4) to begin soon.

I volunteer for second driver if my SCCA license qualifies me for an FIA license. :lol:

 

[Steve Levin]

An SCCA National Competition license should qualify you for an FIA license. I'm not sure that a Regional Competition license would.

I think if you snoop around the Britcar site they have a section where teams are solicting drivers (where the driver pays to be part of the team). That's probably the easiet way to do it, unless we can get people in the UK involved

Steve

 

[optimusprime]

I think if you snoop around the Britcar site they have a section where teams are solicting drivers (where the driver pays to be part of the team). That's probably the easiet way to do it, unless we can get people in the UK involved

Easiest? Yes. Cheapest? Yes. Lamest? Yes.

Perhaps I'll call up my friend Richard Branson and see if he'll spot the cash for a Virgin Atlantic Corvette ZR-1.

 

[anti-net]

An SCCA National Competition license should qualify you for an FIA license. I'm not sure that a Regional Competition license would.

I think if you snoop around the Britcar site they have a section where teams are solicting drivers (where the driver pays to be part of the team). That's probably the easiet way to do it, unless we can get people in the UK involved

Steve

Couple of Britcar drives going there: http://www.dailysportscar.com/viewContents.cfm?departmentName=Classifieds&subDepartmentName=Drives

Or we could get together and buy this GT3 spec Viper that's going: http://pistonheads.com/sales/642779.htm

 

[Loz]

I'm thinking about going to Silverstone, its a bit of a trip from Cornwall and will most likely will be fucking expensive on the train but it would be my first 24hr race!

anyone think TG will be on the entry list?

Going to Silverstone by car is most likely cheaper than the Train.

I went last year to the FIA GT with Grandad and Mum's Partner, we only had to stop once for petrol in a V6 Jag S-Type.

 

[optimusprime]

Or we could get together and buy this GT3 spec Viper that's going: http://pistonheads.com/sales/642779.htm

While I may be an incredibly gifted driver lol, I'm pretty sure GT3 is a very big leap from spec miata and spec 944. Perhaps a much cheaper and much better class 4 Elise would do. http://pistonheads.com/sales/549132.htm

 

[anti-net]

While I may be an incredibly gifted driver lol, I'm pretty sure GT3 is a very big leap from spec miata and spec 944. Perhaps a much cheaper and much better class 4 Elise would do. http://pistonheads.com/sales/549132.htm

ohh yeah, plus I think you get the girl with it

 

[anti-net]

A provisional list has been released now: http://www.britcar24hr.co.uk/cms/news.php?item.676.1

No sign of Top Gear, but the team that helped Top Gear last year, Thorney Motorsport (see there info on helping TG here) is entering a VX220 which doesn't have a driver line up...could this be TG? I doubt it tbh

 

[airmenair]

This is the one thing I would want to see TG do again, c'mon!

 

[jack_christie]

Would be fun if TG did it in the Caddy Van

 

[WillDAQ]

I wish you well. Taking a train to Silverstone is brave. Getting from train station to the circuit should be fun

Station... Silverstone... good luck with that... what with being an ex-airfield it's not really near anywhere built up..

This might work..

 

[Viper007Bond]

Moved Top Gear posts to their own thread: http://forums.finalgear.com/top-gear-spoilers/britcar-24hrs-2008-a-30060/

 

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