Was this the Up!'s motor sport competition debut? Just thought I'd share with you my experience with our Up! at the Goodwood Road Racing Club's auto solo yesterday. It's a timed, motorised slalom round a complicated arrangement of traffic cones on (in this case) a disused aerodrome runway. It's a fantastic way of discovering how your car behaves when pushed much nearer its limits than anyone would try on the roads. It's all 1st and 2nd gear stuff, manouvrabilty is key and it's tremendous fun. You get penalty points for hitting cones or wrong slotting, cars are divided into classes according to engine size and age, bottles of bubbly for the winners, but it's the taking part that counts!
The Up! acquainted itself well and my wife overheard many positive comments, in spite of its being handicapped by the age of its driver and its lack of horsepower (it was giving away 450bhp to a competing Audi R8). I didn't come away with any prizes other than a huge grin and a vow to do the next one in October. If ever you get the chance to have a go at one of these, go for it, even though it won't do your tyres much good (or your fuel consumption)
Apologies for the quality of the photos (taken by my wife from a distance on her iPhone)
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The Up! acquainted itself well and my wife overheard many positive comments, in spite of its being handicapped by the age of its driver and its lack of horsepower (it was giving away 450bhp to a competing Audi R8). I didn't come away with any prizes other than a huge grin and a vow to do the next one in October. If ever you get the chance to have a go at one of these, go for it, even though it won't do your tyres much good (or your fuel consumption)
Apologies for the quality of the photos (taken by my wife from a distance on her iPhone)
