Lancia Motor Club

I have volunteered (again) to be the club rep for this event in April as I am only a few miles from Brooklands, I have contacted Auto Italia on the likely Lancia area, there is building work in progress in the Alfa area of the past few years, so that area has now presumably been lost, I await AI's reply, hopefully with a plan that I can share with you soon.

Neil

I have a proposed layout for the Italian Car day at Brooklands on 30/4, see attached, Lancia are not on the banking this year!  Also Auto Italia have asked if we (LMC) and Club Lancia Sport can supply 10 special Lancias for the track demo and five for Test Hill, any volunteers?  I have asked for details of the track demo (12.00 -13.00), I assume a drive around the Mercedes Benz World track next door.

How dare they, don't they know all Lancia's are special :D

Brian
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Of course, but some may be more special than others!  ;D

I'd be quite happy to drive mine around the track , assuming it's a parade lap type thing and nothing fancy. It'd be nice to have a variety of cars though. I don't fancy the hill so much as it looked a bit hard !

Alright as long as you remember to lift your foot off before the crest, otherwise it's flying lessons and coming down to earth with a big clang, rather than a bump ;D

Brian
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I hope to be there with Modestine.

Robin.

I may well attend always nice to catch-up and chat.

Quick update:  A few club cars have been selected to take part in a track display on the Mercedes Benz test track at midday, there will be 10 cars in each group running for four laps and following a pace car, other cars will be in action on the test hill in the afternoon.

I shall be there in my S2 Appia if you still need to know for numbers etc. I would be happy to do parade laps or the test hill but I guess it is too late for that now.
             Ben

Neil,

I'll be there in the Montecarlo and would like to do the track display if it's not too late, I'm not too sure about the hill but could possibly (?) be persuaded, although I'm getting more nervous as I write this.

Martin.

I shall be there in my S2 Appia if you still need to know for numbers etc. I would be happy to do parade laps or the test hill but I guess it is too late for that now.
             Ben

Been asked to post this;

I'll mail the forum at the weekend, but the plan is to meet at Beaconsfield services on M40 at 08:00 for an 08:15 departure. It's one junction up the m40 from m25 so would we a good place for all coming from north and west. From m4 I'd advise coming up a404 to m40 then it's not so much of a detour. Nice roundabouts too ;-)

That should get us there just after 08:30.

Let's hope the weather hasn't done it's usual whenever the car comes out!!

Could someone post this on the LMC forum. I still can't pst on there because I'm not a member.  Hopefully that will change as I have applied about 4 weeks ago.

A few of us meeting at Beaconsfield services J2 M40 at 07.45 for coffee before setting off, all welcome. :)

Great day out and good to see everyone again, my fav two cars there, Jonathon Stevens series 1 fulvia 1.6 HF, just perfect in every way, and Brian Hiltons s1 Fulvia saloon, 'Fay' just beautiful!

Sorry to have missed you all today but Modestine threw a hissey fit 10 miles into the journey missing and back firing all over the place. Sorted it this afternoon but very disappointed not to make it.  :'(

Robin.

great day, fantasic weather such a shame about your car Robin
here is my photo offering from the day
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotos/sets/72157626491471299/with/5675965148/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tonysphotos/sets/72157626491471299/with/5675965148/)

It was a fine day out, great turn out of cars as usual.

Geoff

Great day, thanks to Neil for the organisation and great photos as usual Tony.   Hopefully see lots of you at Goodwood and fingers crossed the weather is as good as last year.

Thanks for all who attended yesterday, one of the best Auto Italia days yet!  Sorry Robin you had problems with Modestine and had to turn back, but glad you fixed it later on, see you at Goodwood in a few weeks time.

Fully endorse the big thank-you to Neil for his organisational efforts for this event.
The line up of Integrale's in the Lancia parking area was stupendous.
Only downer was being held up through the twisty bits by one of them in the track demo!

           Ben   (Appia; 816 XUT)

Hi Ben,
That was me! lol but you knew what i was doing? we had the learner pace car driver, the Fiat 500's were quicker! still, all good fun and yes a brilliant day.
Tony. ;D

I've been to Brooklands several times before but this was the first one as a Lancia owner which made it a bit more special!  Here are some more photos from me - I did endeavour to get pics of all the Lancias but I may have missed one or two of the latecomers...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8165854@N08/sets/72157626490886349/

Andy

Yes, this was a really good day out. Nice to see so many Italian cars ... and Lancias especially.

Here are a couple I took of the nice Fulvia Coupé HF Fanalone...

Thanks for posting the photos - thats me in the Fanalone - my first outing since purchasing it - have to say it was a lot of fun to drive and hopefully will be the first of many good days out.

Nice video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtfVhqGuJtU

Im really jealous, sounds like a really good day out. I was at Donington where the Lancia LC2 was competing in the Group C Race. Good news it lasted the distance and will be at Spa for the next round of the 1,000km Series. Sat race featured a whole bunch of Lola T70s but was stopped when Frank Sytner crashed following a heart attack. he received attention trackside and was then transferred to Derby Hospital where I believe he is in an induced coma. I will put up images of LC2 when home.

Some of Saturday's pictures.

Is the 'van' sporting LMC stickers on the doors now ? Nice to see it got into the central bit !

Steve, yes it is wearing two new stickers on the doors c/o Will, we managed/asked Auto Italia if we could park it in the paddock area they agreed, so we got there early on Saturday morning to get a good spot for it.

What a great Day  ;). It was my first time at this event & I thought it was a belter! There were lots of tasty lancias to look at, aswell as all the other Italian marques. Well done Ben for having a go at the test hill in his little Appia, the crowd  gave him plenty of encouragement as he reached the top. Thanks to Simon for giving me a lift there in his Delta HF HPE, it was good to see her out of the garage for a change  :o.
                Cheers,
                          Rob