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[Kevin Wood]

Thought someone might be interested in the following report from a mate of mine who went...

Kevin

Mike James, Gav and myself attended the VXR day today at Donington Park and it
was a blast.

We were in a group of about 30 and there were about the same number of cars
available so as you completed one session you just strolled over to another
car and jumped in.

The Corsa, Astra & Vectra were stunning but personnally I did not like the V8
particularly. In all we had 1 1/2 hours on the track and did about 15-20 laps
in total. The VXR package IMHO is very good. Oh we also had a lap with one of
their competition drivers hjust to see what they could really do!!

We then moved on to the "Driving Excitement" arena to do a short agility
section and a handbrake turn in a gap between an inflatable car and some
boxes.

Pleased to say the Se7ners held their end up with Mike & I coming runners up
on the agility and Gav managing to totally knacker the gearbox on one of the
Astra's!!!!

In all it was very well organised and well worth the money so many thanks to
whoever put us on to it.

[Kevin Wood]

.. and another

Just to echo what Allan has said, it was a good well organized day, with no
pushy marketing, just a bag of goodies at the end.

Astra and Corsa, superb fun, one of the Astra's was very laggy, but the
other was lively and very responsive. I drove both Astra and Corsa twice
each.

Vectra/Vectra estate - no difference, very quick in a straight line and very
good around the corners, upto a point, at about 95% if all felt very
understeery and imprecise, just as the ESP cut in.

Meriva/Zafira - yes both VXR models, Meriva is a def Q car, nearly as quick
as the Corsa. The Zafira was as quick as the Astra, bit less agile but the
extra weight showed as the brakes were on the edge after two laps, very
smelly!!

VXR8 - noise, noise noise...acceleration, great brakes, nice
steering....crap clunky gearchange not what you expect on a rear
driver....superb fun though.

The off track entertainment. Food, remote control cars, video games was all
first rate.

As for the autotesting........

Yes I did break an Astra, but it was just the gear linkage < I think> and
Allan beat me by 4 hundredths of a sec.....but his handbrake parking was
hilarious, not only did he miss the gap, but he parked his car on top of the
inflatable car, pulling the air hose out which led to a total deflation of
said car...his second attempt was nearly as bad :-)

[bob.dent]

Sounds like a blast

Is this an annual event and how do you participate?

[Kevin Wood]

Is this an annual event and how do you participate?

http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vx/microsite/vxrtrackday/vxr_trackday.html

Shame they've sold out. I'd have signed up for the Thruxton one by now  

Kevin

[Chopsdad]

Have you taken The Test Kevin?

Be a hoot to drive 6 races in a BTCC car.

[Kevin Wood]

No. I'm not "VXR enough"  

Actually, my Linux box has the wrong version of flash on it and I can't be @rsed to upgrade it!

Maybe on Monday when I'm back in the land of Micro$oft...

Kevin