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Auto Italia
Sep. 24th, 2007 11:31 amYesterday, I went to the Auto Italia event at the Heritage Motor Centre in Gaydon with my dad.
This included an outing onto the test track used by Jaguar, Aston Martin and Land Rover. While the whole track is around 30 miles (!), we were on a section that was quite a bit shorter, for three laps. Quite a different experience from going on the Hockenheimring. While the Hockenheimring has lots of exciting twists and loops, the Gaydon track has long sweeping banked corners - which are still fun to take at speed, but sadly don't look as exciting in the video. We were started out at an average pace by the pace car, and as we were so well behaved, speeds crept up over 110mph (again, hard to tell from the video ;-) ).
Then, after the track outing, we wandered round the assembled Italian cars, and the Heritage museum.
Photo highlights:
( Links below cut )
The whole set resides here, and there is also the video of my track run [93MB MPEG-1, so probably only for the masochistic or very bored].
This included an outing onto the test track used by Jaguar, Aston Martin and Land Rover. While the whole track is around 30 miles (!), we were on a section that was quite a bit shorter, for three laps. Quite a different experience from going on the Hockenheimring. While the Hockenheimring has lots of exciting twists and loops, the Gaydon track has long sweeping banked corners - which are still fun to take at speed, but sadly don't look as exciting in the video. We were started out at an average pace by the pace car, and as we were so well behaved, speeds crept up over 110mph (again, hard to tell from the video ;-) ).
Then, after the track outing, we wandered round the assembled Italian cars, and the Heritage museum.
Photo highlights:
( Links below cut )
The whole set resides here, and there is also the video of my track run [93MB MPEG-1, so probably only for the masochistic or very bored].