owelly
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| posted on 10/2/11 at 10:06 PM |
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PPC in the Park. May 21st.
It will soon be time for the Practical Performance Car Magazine annual show and track day at Mallory Park.
See here for details.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk/ppc-in-the-park.html
Camping the night before, drinking beer and eating dodgy burnt but still raw in the middle BBQ food and doing all the stuff folks do when they have a
stubby bottle of beer in their hand and it's getting too dark to see who you're actually squinting at.
Show day involves the usual open paddock to wander around and track sessions for most of the day. The track sessions are available for £20 for 15
minutes. You can book as many sessions as you want.
Theres loads of good things to see as listed in the above link.
The previous two PPCintParks have been great events (IMHO) and even if I didn't get free tickets, I would still be happy to travel the four
hours it takes me to get there!
This year, there will be a stand in the paddock for the PPC £999 Challenge cars where you can see the sort of crap that we drag along and see if you
could do any better. In fact, if you enter this years £999 Challenge, you can put your car on the £999 stand and let folks take the pi$$.
I'm also trying to secure a £999ers area in the camping field for all the Challengees to gather, mumble at each other and get drunk. And this is
where the Locosters come in! I'm inviting fellow Locosters to join the £999ers in the camping field. I'm hoping we can herd the cars into
a wagon circle to enable us to keep an eye on them so we can all get blootered and not worry about leaving the cars miles away.
I'll even buy everyone a beer. Not everyone ever, just LBers and £999ers!
See you all there. I'll be the fat bloke surounded by thirsty folks and empty beer crates.
Owelly.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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hillbillyracer
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| posted on 10/2/11 at 10:18 PM |
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£999 challenge back at the show this year or is it just get together of £999ers at the show?
The Interceptor has plenty MOT, so thats the prep done!
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ReMan
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| posted on 10/2/11 at 10:23 PM |
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the tracksessions are tempting (and the reat of course) 
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owelly
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| posted on 10/2/11 at 10:28 PM |
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The £999 Challenge will be at Santa Pod again this year but we're trying to get as many entrants to turn up at Mallory just for the hell of it!
We may even get a parade lap if the cars are drivable!!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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hillbillyracer
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| posted on 10/2/11 at 10:40 PM |
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Cheers Owelly, I thought that'd be the case but just thought I'd check.
I should get myself there, I dont get to much these days, got nowt much to fetch at the mo except a T4 van & a 1.2 Clio with a spider's web
effect windscreen!
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hobbsy
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| posted on 10/2/11 at 10:41 PM |
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Hmm I can make it again this year now it's not around the bank holiday. Made it to the one in 2009 (I think!) was good.
Compared to a full on track day it's not fantastic value as a full day at Mallory is often only £100 anyway but if you just fancy a couple of
sessions while checking out everything else then it's great. The time I went I ended up giving away my last two sessions as I had to be
somewhere and they were running late  So I also missed out on all the camping shenanigans!
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owelly
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| posted on 10/2/11 at 10:54 PM |
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The track time may not be the best value for money but the last time I booked at Mallory, it cost me £150 and I got a total of 45 mins of track time!
I usually try to find quiet trackdays now with open pit lane! At least at PPCintPark if you break your car, you can sell/ give away your track time!
Plus, the 15 minutes gives you enough time to learn the track without getting all giddy and crashing. Or is that just me that gets all excited?!
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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hobbsy
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| posted on 11/2/11 at 11:39 AM |
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See I was there (my memory isn't that good any more), here's proof from PPC's website a while ago 
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owelly
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| posted on 11/2/11 at 10:38 PM |
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Anyway Hobbsy, how many trackdays have you been to where you get to see all the marvellous things on offer at PPCintPark?? The PPC Roller will be
getting a jet engine for some bizzarre reason and I'll be there for you to take the piff out of!! And I'm sure there will be other
splendid things.......probably. 
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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owelly
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| posted on 18/4/11 at 10:09 PM |
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Just another quick shameless plug.....or a BTTT if you like!?
Er, come to Mallory. There's lots to see and do. See the linky at the start of this thread.
There'll be a few £999 Challenge cars there in whatever state they happen to be in. There should be a £999 area in the campsite which all
Locosters are more than welcome to pitch up and throw dead things on the BBQ.
also:
Attractions include:
all day track action
club stands
Locosts
Double ended car
Drift cars
Dragsters firing up on track
Hot rods burnouts and on track
Trade stands
Dave Walker
Over 500 display cars
Camping
Autotest
PPC cars including the new project - jet engined VW Caddy
Be there, or be, er, not there. Somewhere else. 
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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owelly
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| posted on 18/5/11 at 01:50 PM |
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And another bump for PPCintPark for those who have a memory worse than mine...
It's this Saturday 21st but theres a shed load of folks heading there for friday and beery camping.
http://www.ppcmag.co.uk
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