You all know the name Prodrive I

[slarty bartfast]

We set off on Wednesday afternoon for their test facility in Warwick, on our respective Michelin Sport Cup clad drives in search of speed and driver wisdom. First obstacle to overcome was from nature or God, torrential downpours in our efforts to escape East Anglia, not ideal footwear for our journey out and, given that part of the training program was on a skid pan, it could be argued the rain preference would have been for the journey back.

Having survived the deluge in one (or two pieces) we arrived at the hotel. Despite being a rather large hotel, all the prestige car parking was taken, even the side areas were full so, feeling important, we just parked at the front entrance in some "reserved" places not entirely meant for us but,



After informing the front desk where exactly we were, we were told if they needed to move us then they would contact us. Score 1 for us, we were not contacted and even a Masserati was obliged to hide in the shadows out of sight (it was yellow).

Up early (ish) for obligatory cooked breakfast, check out, de mist in the chill 6 degree but sunny weather we then went in the search of V-Power in a grid locked Kenilworth.

With minutes to spare we arrived at Prodrive about 09.00 hrs, sun shining and about 10 degrees. Passing through security we were instructed to line up with the other cars and await our "guide" through to the start of our day.



There were a good selection of cars, four 911 ' s , two M3 ' s, three CSLs , a Scooby, TVR and a mini Cooper S.





After the short briefing , tea/coffee and bacon rolls, if required, we were introduced to our instructor for the day Mike, who shall be known forever more as The Stig

[blacky]

Nice write up

Pics are not working

How much is this tuition day if you don't mind me asking, been toying with booking myself into something like this :!:

[Stuart]

Logan

[pablo]

Excellant report there, i could visulise the whole day. Sounds like you had a fantastic time.

[blacky]

Thanks Stuart, that doesn't sound too bad, think I will have to do this once the car is back and sorted, you keen as well Stuart??

[duncan]

It is a fantastic facility - have been going over to Prodrive at Warwick for the past two weeks and I itching to give the car a thrash around the circuits

Great write up and superb pics Simon 8)

[Ben]

[Stuart]

Make sure it's March onwards so the GTR is ready Ben.

[Ben]

Most definitely sir ... let's plan for next year then.

[kev@tga]

sounds like a good idea ben, great pics slarty