Top Gear MINI Run - 11th July 2009

[olimortimer]

Registration opens at 8pm tonight (on MINI2);

Topgear 2009 tbc.. - Page 17 - MINI2 - MINI Forum

250+ cars have posted their interest already!

[Hyper Active]

Blimey , it's going to cost £40 this time .

[Jove]

Are we going to this?

[Jove]

O right someone put my name down lol I've sent the form in.

[TRISTO]

arent we all going to the british mini showdown on that day?

[Jove]

Saturday 11 July 2009 - Sunday 12 July 2009

Pants

[TRISTO]

can do topgear saturday and go mini showdown on the sunday?

[BigShow]

So which we doing then, Top Gear or MINI Showdown?

[BigShow]

Just noticed that it's track time behind a pace car again so no way of setting a quick lap to compare against the TG leader board

It's a shame it couldn't have been capped to 60 drivers paying £150 but then organisation wise I'm sure that's easier said than done.

A number of people are starting to complain about the £40 entry cost though and one half of me says 'have a word, it's for charity' and the other kind of understands their points.

I'm now wondering if I'm going to attend as there are a lot of charity events we're all supporting this year and whilst last year TG was a fantastic event, mainly because I got to say I drove the TG track, for £40 for parade laps I'm left questioning if it's worth it tbh.

What are others thoughts?

[monkeyone]

Yeah I do think it is a bit expensive for what it was last year. Although I have signed up again this year and will go to the BMS on the Sunday.

I would rather have paid less and not had the t-shirt and free/food drinks included, but then again as you say its all for charity.

Hoefully this year they will be a bit faster and it sounds like you might get more than one go.

I wonder how much it costs though to hire the track? Maybe we could do our own MT day?