Dunsfold - £63k Raised ! Videos added !

[so cossie]

Love the new film

Oh you look like you are being draged out of that F40

[spiritof'76]

I will shut up about this eventually

Maybe the last of the pics............ but then again











And Finally........ one very happy Chappy

[spiritof'76]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rULA1MepMl0"]YouTube- Dad's Day Out - Childrens Trust Ride in a Supercar event[/ame]

[spiritof'76]

Not even a Mother could love the looks of that .

But you can't see it when you're in it and it made pretty short work of the Murciealago

You would have loved it out there Granted it wasn't the most technical of track layouts but it suited the purpose of giving the punters a thrill

[Mike Rainbird]

Good to hear so much positive feedback

First of the vids are out........ there will be more........ but here is the Skelta onboard I'm pretty sure sure someone said the driver is a proper race driver but can't recall the details now

YouTube- Skelta lapping the Top Gear Track at Dad's Day Out

Not even a Mother could love the looks of that .

[Chopper1981]

I'm pretty sure sure someone said the driver is a proper race driver but can't recall the details now

That was me , sure I heard that pain in the arse, J.R Ewing look-alike commentator say the driver was in some kinda Gt race series that will be at Brands in the next few weeks

[spiritof'76]

Good to hear so much positive feedback

First of the vids are out........ there will be more........ but here is the Skelta onboard I'm pretty sure sure someone said the driver is a proper race driver but can't recall the details now

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OOc0JbLMBo"]YouTube- Skelta lapping the Top Gear Track at Dad's Day Out[/ame]

[daz5885]

Was a great day!!
We really enjoyed it some amazing cars just a shame i still hav'nt found a so i could of joined the group

Well Done

[Dave_M]

Great effort. Julian - credit for organising this. I had a great day out, including a passenger ride in one of the F40s. Still love them, and the passenger ride hasn't spoiled the image. Shame they're a bit out of my price range .

Dave

[Ben Purnell]

Cracking amount raised and all for a worthy cause

[Rolls]

wow! - super impressed with that!!!

[bullett]

thats a great amount raised julian. everyone should be proud of that

[spiritof'76]

The organisers just posted this up on Pistonheads Still no video on Youtube but it won't be long
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Firstly, Thank You to everyone who came down yesterday to show your cars, drive, get flung around by the supercars or Caterhams or just generally to support the event.

A very special Thank You also to everyone who volunteered their time to help run the event on the day. It's always tough to be working when there's so much fun to be had and they did an amazing job dealing with the crowds, helping with the queues, selling tickets or marshaling the cars and track. Everyone involved with the event really appreciated all the efforts made.

This year, the total number of people who came along was well over 4,500 (i think it may well be closer to 5,000) and although the final figures are yet to be calculated, we appear to have raised in excess of

£63,000

Every penny raised goes to the charity

Some general info;
We did close to 900 rides in an extended period and there was no way we could have done anymore than that.

Understandably, The Children's Trust are over the moon and are very grateful to everyone for helping the day such a success.

That figure is in no small part due to the efforts of Pistonheaders who leant their support in so many different ways, this includes Paul Garlick and the rest of the PH management who were happy to move a few things around so we could make this event a Sunday Service and help us with advice and ideas as well.

It took almost 9 months of planning to make it happen, the bulk of it done by unpaid volunteers in their spare time. We had last year as our benchmark when 3,000+ people turned up and we did over 800 rides. and raised around £30,000.

For 2010 We knew that the rest of the event needed to be better, which is why we added 3 more options in terms of having fun in cars. The Caterhams at the other end of the event drifting around (at £10 they were a real bargain and i think they were over subscribed) were a particular success.

We also added more marquees and more entertainment in the shape of live bands, a motorbike and mountian bike display teams as well as more stuff for kids to do. The food was much better this year although we're aware the queues were longer than we would have liked so it may simply be a case of adding extra vans.

We're aware that not everything was perfect, some of the volunteers didnt arrive til after people were arriving so the early part was rather fraught and the queues for the supercars were also longer than we would have liked (but the volunteers manning the queues were immense imho) some of it due to sheer volume some of it due to cars not always functioning as well as they could.

We had plenty of cars on the day....there were 5 F40's and 2 Spykers which is rare enough! There were over 100 on the list, all supercars in one form or another and appealling to most if not all tastes.
All the drivers gave up their time (and fuel/tyre costs...mentioning no names! ) to take people out for the ride of their lives, and i dont think anyone held back which is a testament to them. They deserve all the credit they received

We'll learn the lessons from this year and make sure 2011 is better still.
Thank you again from everyone on the Dads Day Out organising team

[fordrallycar]

Great day mate

[bullett]

we had a good day julian - looking forward to repeating it next year.......... i'll be booking a ride next year though!

i recommend the f40