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It Is fun! I've been several times.

The site you've highlighted is run by Brian Thorley and he's a really nice guy. We've been with him to that event in the past. Some friends and I met up with him at a restaurant and my cars pictured on the link you've given where is says 2013 album 3. It's at the bottom in the restaurant car park, so it's odd you've given that as a link. I've another picture of me near the bottom of his main page all parked up at the side of the road, but a different car on that one. It's a picture my wife took of the whole group whilst we were waiting for Brian. He'd been leading the convoy and was just in front of me. We went through a small Village and the police were speed trapping.... Hence the wait! Needless to say Brian gets ribbed about that a lot!

The great thing about Angouleme is that the whole town embraces the racing. The Sunday is race day and many individuals and clubs cars are parked on display all over the town. It's a classic car mecca. So many lovely and rare cars. But also ordinary enthusiasts cars of all sorts of Marques go there. The French love cars. From 8am in the morning the place is buzzing. We usually arrive at 7.30am, park up and watch the cars roll in whilst having breakfast.

On the Saturday you can get to go around the track in your car if you know what you're about. No one seems to mind as long as you've a nice car!

For a train ride of Euro 25 it's a must! Just wondering around the pits is a good day if you do nothing else.

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Rev said:
so it's odd you've given that as a link.

:)
Pure coincidence, as I had been looking on Dutch sites and then decided to look on a British site.
 

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Rev said:
Its a Rolls Royce engine, and it's never until you truly sit down and think about these things that reality comes home. That was a truly magnificent feat. He wasn't just racing he was risking his life. Actually really putting it on the line, and in those days doing what he did you could only do it for so long. I suspect that most of those racers and record breakers from that era lost their lives eventually. There were lots of unsung heros as well who on a weekly basis went out to race on their local circuits. I was not uncommon for them not to come home.

Incredible times, and these people pushed the boundaries.

:)
All this talk of land speed records reminded me of an encounter I had at a social event about 15 years a go. See if you can spot the land speed record holder!

 

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I want to know how both of you were at the same function!

There seems to be a disparity in dress code here..... You're in shorts and AG's in DJ!
 

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AG?

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Come on Mike get with the program (as my daughter keeps telling me) :))

Andy Green !
 

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Re: seems Andy Green is a pussy!

How Fast Is Saint Nick’s Sleigh Flying On Live Stream Footage of NORAD Santa Tracker 2012?

BY Maria Vultaggio | December 24 2012 5:56 PM

Ever wondered how fast Santa’s sleigh actually has to fly on Christmas Eve to deliver all his presents to the millions of children across the world?

Thanks to one mathematician, there’s no need to speculate any further.

Father Christmas’ sleigh would have to go 5,083,000 mph, according to Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University.

Popsci interviewed Silverberg, a "Santa specialist." He determined that it would take six “Santa months” to deliver all the presents to the children of the world.

Silverberg explained to Popsci that he figured Santa has to deliver gifts to around 200 million kids who are spread out over 200 million square miles. If every home has two to three children, there are about 75 million homes to visit.

He then calculated that the average distance between the homes is 1.63 miles, which means Santa has to cover 122 million miles in one night.

After calculating the distance, the number of homes and of course knowing how much time Santa has (24 hours) he and his students were able to figure out how fast the sleigh needs to travel on Christmas Eve.

But is it possible?

Surprisingly, Silverberg explained to Popsci that it wasn’t impossible to do since Santa’s sleigh would be traveling 130 times slower than the speed of light, which travels at 300 million meters per second, or 669,600,000 mph.

Since something already moves that fast it’s not impossible, just very difficult.

Silverberg and his students also have an explanation for how Santa is able to deliver all the presents in one night: "relativity clouds."

This means Santa can stretch time like a “rubber band,” so what seems like just a few minutes to everyone else is actually six months for Santa, the site said.

“While I don’t know much about relativity clouds myself, I think it’s very possible that a man who flies in a sleigh, lives with elves, and has flying pet reindeer could have the technology needed to utilize relativity clouds," Danny Maruyama, a doctoral candidate researching systems physics at the University of Michigan, told Popsci.


But it's not via land so we'll let the record stand.


http://www.ibtimes.com/how-fast-saint-n ... 012-966736
 

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Rev said:
I want to know how both of you were at the same function!

There seems to be a disparity in dress code here..... You're in shorts and AG's in DJ!

It was a very hot evening and I'll be b******* if I put on a monkey suit just because Andy Green is there! Nice chap though, it wasn't that long after he had set the record if memory serves.

Love the Santa's sleigh thing by the way, very interesting.
 

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I don't think so, I have gone through it frame by frame so will get some stills. To try and help :)
 

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a few more pics. I thought the same HT but not so sure with these:

fastcar1.jpg
fastcar2.jpg
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