W8PMC wrote:I here you reasons (or excuses) for the lack of results, but if you charge a premium shouldn't all these problems be ironed out before taking peoples hard earned money?ASH555 wrote:
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How can not supplying results on a Vmax day be acceptable???
It would seem you make good money on these events so therefore should have all the latest equipment to give your customers the ultimate day
/quote]W8PMC wrote: Apologies for being blunt/direct, but have you been to VMAX? This timing scenario has happened once or twice in close to 30 events which let's be honest is hardly a big issue.
http://www.vmax200.com
What's making me chuckle is although a great idea to self host such an event, the basis for such an event has within 3 pages turned into exactly what VMAX is & has been for years already offering. If you have 100+ vehicles running to keep the costs down to say £120-150 each then that's too many cars. Also many attending will not have experienced such an event so the chances of carnage are extremely high as stopping a road car from 180mph within a fairly short distance requires a reasonably high quality of components & driver awareness.
The original idea was Audi only, but you've realised that's a tad boring so want to open it up to other marques which again is the current VMAX format. VMAX is not only about the runs, but also about the banter & friendship. At the last event i attended, my then 16yr old lad got a PAX run in a Noble M600 & experienced the runway at 204mph, something sadly i've still not managed.
I accept that VMAX is probably not for everyone, but having attended many over the years you'd struggle to find a better & more exciting way for a petrol head to spend a couple of hundred quid. Where else in the UK would you get to find & reach the upper speed limits of your own vehicle? Also consider that not only do you get the close to 2 mile straight, you get the launchpad (love that bit) where you can launch you car under safe conditions which is hardly advisable out of the M6 Toll Booths. This in itself & the viewing of is quite something.
Horses for courses though as you can't please all of the people all of the time. I've had 2 years away from VMAX as a 3.0TDi A8 Exec isn't really the correct vehicle for such an event, however i'll be taking my new M5 for a blat when the next event is announced:)
I agree in part that Vmax isn't just about your own car, but also the experience of the day
However, if you've not been for a couple of years, then you might not have realised that Vmax has grown into something much bigger than what you might've been to before
Don't get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed Vmax black earlier this year, but it wasn't amazing and the size of the event now (there was possibly 100 cars) has made it slightly more segregated and impersonal than you might be remembering
The level of driving was ok, but still with that many people, you get a wide range of abilities and there were a couple of times where a faster car would go off at the same time as me, get a good lead had then cut in front of me on the launch pad side covering my car in stones from the crappy surface or the time the guy launched a 996 turbo in reverse and luckily there was no one queued up behind him
For £250, and this is more directed at Craig as a suggestion more than a criticism, can't you get some 0-60 0-100, standing qtr, corner exit & top speeds up on a big screen for all to see (some live supported vboxes could do this). I had a good day, but I did feel a little fleeced given how much it costs to run against the numbers of attendees you had. The events have a great following, but an awesome potential
I'd happily go along to a £250 vmax quatro organised by the Vmax guys if I thought it'd live up to its potential and back to more vmax's in general
