Any questions?

[HoTWire]

Hey folks,

I'm putting together the announcements and website for Retro Rides Weekender 2018, I'm sure there are many many questions, I'd love to know what you want to know so I can make the website as informative as possible

[Frankenhealey]

Will it be Goodwood catering or outside suppliers please?

[toby5]

Where is the camping, what’s the track being used for?

[b3nson]

Can we book just one day? (i.e the day with track action as I'm likely to only be allowed out on one day!)

[HoTWire]

Thanks for questions so far, I'll make sure they are included in the site when it goes live. For the time being to answer some questions

Nov 9, 2017 12:18:47 GMT Frankenhealey said:

Will it be Goodwood catering or outside suppliers please?

We'll have a mix of both, all catering has to be booked through Goodwood, but if you've been to our events before you know we like a range of good quality food and hopefully reasonably priced food at that. We are just working out with Goodwood what we want food wise and then we'll see who is available.

Nov 10, 2017 16:58:11 GMT toby5 said:

Where is the camping, what’s the track being used for?

I can't say exactly where camping is at the moment, as we're still seeing if we can do something with the camping that Goodwood have never done before ... if we do that, it'll be double awesome, part of the reason I've held off doing much more announcing is because I'm waiting on that info.

On the Saturday the track is being used for a sprint in the way we do the Gathering one, ie anyone can have a go, we're also hoping to run a demo session for one of our display areas On the Sunday the track will be home to our club stands and retro parking, if we can get close to the number we get at The Gathering it'll be hell of a display! We'd also kinda like to do some parade laps if clubs are interested, but just trying to work out the logistics of that + people looking at cars.

Nov 10, 2017 17:37:08 GMT b3nson said:

Can we book just one day? (i.e the day with track action as I'm likely to only be allowed out on one day!)

You can book one day. Saturday will be track action, Sunday will be clubs and retro parking.

[Frankenhealey]

Nov 13, 2017 12:47:19 GMT HoTWire said:

Nov 9, 2017 12:18:47 GMT Frankenhealey said:

Will it be Goodwood catering or outside suppliers please?

We'll have a mix of both, all catering has to be booked through Goodwood, but if you've been to our events before you know we like a range of good quality food and hopefully reasonably priced food at that. We are just working out with Goodwood what we want food wise and then we'll see who is available.

That's good news. I had a sausage inna bun there last year and it must have come from C.M.O.T. Dibbler Enterprises.

[HoTWire]

Nov 13, 2017 13:02:56 GMT Frankenhealey said:

That's good news. I had a sausage inna bun there last year and it must have come from C.M.O.T. Dibbler Enterprises.

We do our best to avoid pies with personalities types

[discostew38]

Tickets
Can you buy them on the day or in advance
Will there be day tickets or/and weekend tickets

I've booked that weekend off work already so il be there 👍 But I do t do camping

[Deleted]

I live relatively close by and will definitely be coming along to this. Is there anything that needs any assistance over the weekend? Do you need people to make it work or is it all well covered (never been to a Retrorides event before so I have no idea how they are run).

I'd like to be there for the full weekend, camping in a tent because the back of my car isn't very comfortable. Unless I can get my one and only car buddy* to come along I'll be there by my sad old self as I have no other car buddies.... so I'd rather not be there as a sad-sack munching burgers on my own if I could be in a hi-vis vest shouting angrily at lines of cars whilst also munching burgers on my own.

(* it's likely not going to be his kind of thing and I've never persuaded him to join me for anything at Goodwood)

[Deleted]

And also... WHERE will tickets go n sale? I've just seen on the FB page the camping tickets are going on sale real soon and I don't want to miss out.

[HoTWire]

Nov 13, 2017 19:20:45 GMT discostew38 said:

Tickets
Can you buy them on the day or in advance
Will there be day tickets or/and weekend tickets

I've booked that weekend off work already so il be there 👍 But I do t do camping

You can buy in advance or on the day.

I was going to do a "weekend but no camping ticket", but it would have just been the price of a Saturday and Sunday ticket, so you'll need to get one of each

Nov 14, 2017 12:34:53 GMT @quatermass said:

I live relatively close by and will definitely be coming along to this. Is there anything that needs any assistance over the weekend? Do you need people to make it work or is it all well covered (never been to a Retrorides event before so I have no idea how they are run).

We are all good for people, thanks for the offer though, it is always appreciated.

I'm often flying solo at events, and in the early years of RR I didn't know anyone. Handily people are pretty easy going and joining a group sat round a BBQ or fire is usually easy enough. We'll have a bar open on Saturday evening so also an easy place to sit and chat with various folk.

[HoTWire]

Nov 14, 2017 12:42:21 GMT @quatermass said:

And also... WHERE will tickets go n sale? I've just seen on the FB page the camping tickets are going on sale real soon and I don't want to miss out.

Ah they will be in the Store, but we'll advertise on here, and facebook and instagram and anywhere else we can think of!

[bstardchild]

Nov 14, 2017 12:34:53 GMT @quatermass said:

I live relatively close by and will definitely be coming along to this. Is there anything that needs any assistance over the weekend? Do you need people to make it work or is it all well covered (never been to a Retrorides event before so I have no idea how they are run).

Very relaxed - if fact the one thing that never ceases to amaze me is you get a huge mix of car scenes and people and they all are happy to talk cars in a mixed environment

Nov 14, 2017 12:34:53 GMT @quatermass said:

I'd like to be there for the full weekend, camping in a tent because the back of my car isn't very comfortable. Unless I can get my one and only car buddy* to come along I'll be there by my sad old self as I have no other car buddies.... so I'd rather not be there as a sad-sack munching burgers on my own

I thought I'd be doing that in 2006 at a retro show at Santa Pod where I RR had a club stand/camp area (feck was it that long ago) - I was wrong then and you are very unlikely to end up being a sad sack munching burgers on your own.

The trick is to start a thread saying what are you bringing to RRWE - people like posting pics of their cars so you get to put a forum name to a car and then wandering round the campsite you can at least start the conversation with hi I'm @quatermass - TIM in real life - I guess you are MonzaPhil seeing as that's a white Monza or a green VX 4/90 or a crusty discovery

From that point on it's easy

Two good tips

tigran never ever brings what he thinks he's gonna bring - you can spend all night working out who he is

if Blown_Imp offers you Lemon Gin - refuse it

Oh and bstardchild is teetotal and does not want to make sure he gets more than his fair share of the Lemon Gin

[Deleted]

Good advice, and I'll follow almost all of it... Sadly I'm not bringing anything that is likely to set anyone's pulse racing or generate much interest. Just a shabby old Scimitar in need of a make-over.

I might put a few of my half baked plans for the car into action though with this as my deadline.

*Fires up the buzz saw*

[The Doctor]

Well, i like Scimitars, and they are nowhere to be found overhere, so i would be interested to talk to someone in a shabby old scimitar in need of a make-over

Not sure yet if i'm coming over for it though, it looks and sounds amazing, but not sure yet if i'm going to make the trip over.

[skinnylew]

Track question: will there be any restrictions on vehicles to be used on track i.e. noise limits/age limits(vehicle or passenger)/non road legal/non approved cages etc

Hopefully have the Ax ready again for this

[bstardchild]

Nov 15, 2017 22:57:34 GMT skinnylew said:

Track question: will there be any restrictions on vehicles to be used on track i.e. noise limits/age limits(vehicle or passenger)/non road legal/non approved cages etc

Hopefully have the Ax ready again for this

OK not fully finalised yet so things may change but in a nutshell

We will have noise restrictions due to the venue (bearing in mind last few Shelsley/Prescot events have had no restrictions)

Preferred Road legal from an entry management perspective but we are looking to be more flexible - we may be able to have non road legal entries

A single passenger should be acceptable - a car full unlikely

Age of the vehicles no post 2000 cars (we reserve the right as always to accept something different or unusual - it's not like we do it much but we do bend our own rules occasionally)

Helmets will be mandatory

Cages or any other track preparation will not be mandatory

[JoshO]

Are tickets going on sale today as mentioned on the Facebook event page?

[HoTWire]

Nov 17, 2017 7:52:56 GMT JoshO said:

Are tickets going on sale today as mentioned on the Facebook event page?

Website today, tickets next week.

[JoshO]

Nov 17, 2017 8:44:43 GMT HoTWire said:

Nov 17, 2017 7:52:56 GMT JoshO said:

Are tickets going on sale today as mentioned on the Facebook event page?

Website today, tickets next week.

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