Brands Porsche Festival, August

[bones]

Parade Laps are now fully booked. If you want to be on the Register although all places are now allocated you may still get in there on the day if space allows. I will take spare tickets just in case. REMEMBER YOUR DRIVING LICENCE FOR PARADE LAPS PLEASE - NO LICENCE NO PARADE LAPS.



LATEST INFO
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FESTIVAL LATEST
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SATURDAY - for set up only
Access from 8:00 at main gates using a Sunday Register Parking pass (either register Parking or Special Register), or a Traders pass
SUNDAY
Access for set up from 8:00 at Main Gates. you will need an entry ticket as well as register Parking pass to get a car into Register parking
Main Gates open at.10 am for members etc
Assemble on Register Stand for Display around 10 am.
Parade Laps - you will be called from the Register Parking..30 mins before the session to go to the Paddock Hill Form Up area and to sign on
Check during the day that the times haven't altered (due to race delays etc)
MONDAY
Main Gates open at 7.30 for record attempt participants.
10.00 am for public and non record attempt participants........
Record attempt - you will be directed in from the Main gates or called from Register and non-Register Parking from 8 am . you should have a car pass for the Record Attempt (note Porsche only)
Assemble at Register Stand for Display at (Time) ..10 am, or before..
Chronology Grid Display you will be called from the Register Parking..12:05 (30 mins before the session)....

TIMETABLE

You will need your Entry Tickets and Register Parking passes when you arrive
Booking
Saturday 28th August
Welcome Buffet 1830-2200

Sunday 29th August
BRSCC Porsche 924 Championship - Qualifying 1000-1025
Michelin Porsche Club Championship - Qualifying 1025-1100
Michelin Porsche Club Speed Championship - Qualifying 1100-1145
Porsche 4-Cylinder Trophy - Qualifying 1155-1215
Michelin Porsche Open - Qualifying 1230-1305

Historic Motorsport cars - grid display and charity walkabout 1315-1400

BRSCC Porsche 924 Championship 1400-1420
Porsche Parade laps â"¢"ž GT3 1425-1440
Michelin Porsche Club Championship 1445-1515
Porsche Parade lap â"¢"ž 3.2 Carrera (83-89) 1520-1535
Michelin Porsche Club Speed Championship 1545-1625
Porsche Parade lap â"¢"ž 964/993 1630-1645
Porsche 4-Cylinder Trophy 1655-1715
Porsche Parade lap â"¢"ž 914/924/356/912 1715-1730
Michelin Porsche Open 1730-1800

Champagne Reception 1900-1945
Historic Motorsport parade laps - Le Mans style 1930-1955
Black Tie Gala Dinner 2000-2300

Monday 30th August
World Record attempt 0830-0945
Michelin Porsche Club Speed Championship 1000-1040
Porsche Parade laps â"¢"ž early 911 to SC (83) 1045-1100
BRSCC Porsche 924 Championship 1110-1130
Porsche 911 Turbo 30th Anniversary 1135-1150
Le Mans Demonstration 1155-1245
Porsche Parade laps - 944/968/928 1245-1300

Porsche Chronology - grid display and charity walkabout 1305-1355

Michelin Porsche Club Championship 1400-1445
Porsche Parade laps â"¢"ž 996/986 1445-1500
Michelin Porsche Club Speed Championship 1500-1540
Porsche Parade laps â"¢"ž GT3 1545-1600
Michelin Porsche Open 1610-1655
Porsche Parade laps â"¢"ž Free form and Cabriolet & Speedster,Cayennes) 1655-1710
TBA 1715-1750
Porsche Farewell laps 1800-1815

Note: this timetable is provisional; the content and order
is subject to change at the organisers' discretion

Spare parade lap places can be bought on the day

The format and rules of Parade Laps:
These will be 4 or 5 laps at a brisk pace set by the pace car, taking about 15 minutes including on and off lap)
There will be NO overtaking, and NO holding back to give yourself room. A second pace car may follow at the rear.
No helmets may be worn, since safety will not be in issue. Only driver and front seat passengers are allowed.

What to do when you arrive
1. Show your coloured pass for the Register Parking Area and drive and park there (it's near the Kentagon building). Most Registers will have a gazebo and flag erected there. This car park is very convenient to move on to the circuit, but if full, then an overflow area will be provided.
2. Signing on (passengers also) will be under the direction of Eoin Sloan at the gazebo near the entrance to the Register Parking "" info on exact location and opening times to follow. You will need your drivers license and will receive a wristband (different colours for driver and passenger). Check that the Parade Lap session times haven't altered!

How do you get on to the track?
45 mins before the session start return to your car in the Register Parking. You will be guided to leave the park and assemble at the entry to the track underpass by PCGB stewards. Detailed info to follow.

After the Parade Lap session
The pace car will lead the line off the circuit, return to the Register Parking (perhaps the space you left from)

Hope this is helping to ease peoples concerns.

You can still buy tickets direct from Brands Hatch at the pre-event price of £19.95. Tickets at the gate will be £25.

 

[bones]

911SC Register Parking Passes will be in the post this week for all the members who have notified me.

THERE ARE SPACES LEFT FOR BOTH DAYS

 

[bones]

I've sent this week Register Parking passes to everyone who has requested me to do so. If you don't have a pass by Monday email or telephone me.

 

[bones]

Everyone should have recieved their Register Parking passes by now, if not ring tonight , if I'm not there please leave a message. Can all Register Parking members arrive before 10.00AM if possible. Remember you can reach me on my mobile no. in the letter I sent with the passes Look forward to meeting everyone at what promises to be a fabulous occasion.

 

[bones]

Just want to say it was great to meet all you SC owners who arrived at the register parking, perhaps a pity we couldn't have a better gazebo ie one that didn't keep trying to escape skywards very time you turned your back......and some catering of our own.....dream on I guess. Hope you got home ok Martin and Nicki , don't worry about the spacers and.....I've forgotten your name with the Casablanca Beige SC please could you email me the no of Coles bodyshop as I lost the scrap of paper it was written on. We will meet up again next big event I hope, I thought the parade laps were a blast and quicker than I expected.

 

[Bazgillie]

Hello Bones
Car looked good I did not get a chance to come over and say hello as it started to rain and we were going back to the car for some snap. The Porsche only car park was nice.
I thought for £25 that there could have been a bit more racing. The Le Mans cars were very impressive. The traders werre not giving much away but there is no telling what they were charged for a pitch. Porsche main stand was a bit lacking no 997 well done Camtune though. Thought the Carrera GT was great and nice to see it being used/abused.
I also went on Friday up until lunch break to watch the track day which was spoilt by the rain. Some were giving it what for but some just seemed to be posing a bit.
First festival all in good but needed more racing for me for the money.
Baz

 

[bones]

Sorry I missed this Baz, it's my understanding that things came together a little late in the day. Perhaps if we have an event on this scale again we should have a dedicated team , not necessarily office based to organise it. I thought for a first attempt it was very good but could have been better in all the areas mentioned all over this forum. The traders area looked cheap - horses for courses in some cases I think - but the Historic display was the crowning glory in my opinion and that was just superb, really worth seeing and great to see it overssen by a real character in the personage of Eion Sloan. Catch up with you at the Ace maybe?

 

[sep4]

Its a bit late now for my comments on the Brands Porsche Festival. I did enjoy the day (Monday) but was disappointed no boot/ autojumble took place, and found the traders - those who made the effort to attend, somewhat uninteresting. Excellent stand with Roger Bray Restoration I thought. Do we know what the traders had to pay? Certainly if I had a business with glossy adverts in the Porsche Post I would want to show my face to readers and customers alike. It's just good will. I expect the lack of traders was purely down to cost. A display of cars in their areas easily covers the ground but I would like to see what services these people claim to offer. I feel SC and earlier car owners would rather see good accessories/repair/repaint/renovation skills than a tent of recent 911's. I wanted to put my feelings to the Head Office at Moreton over the phone line but was told to write, however time has raced by and its all forgotten.
I was pleased to see Bones watching over the SC area when he wasn't taking to the circuit. The interesting chats always come too late in the day.

 

[bones]

Hi Mike nice to see you dropping in here, I agree with you about the stands generally and I was really surprised by the lack of attendance of some of the Porsche specialists. When you think of the money they take from us Porsche owners it only common courtesy and surely good business sense to be there. Now that everybody knows what's involved if we do it again next year then we can do it better.