AERO CLUB OPEN DAY Brilliant Outdoor Circuit and Good Even Karts Too
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OFFICIAL ALFA ROMEO OWNERS CLUB NEWSLETTER FOR THE EAST MIDLANDS Twilight Drive George & Dragon, Thringstone Weds 14 Sept from 7pm Our September meeting night will feature a convoy cruise around local lanes and villages lasting around 30minutes. That will set off around 745pm. We will have all the usual meeting night fun of course, and the G&D’s excellent bar meals are served ‘til 9pm should you fancy. Always a great mix of Alfas at the Karting Night Leicester Airport Aero Club day. Sutton Circuit Near Broughton Astley Monday 26 Sept from 6.30pm AERO CLUB OPEN DAY Brilliant outdoor circuit and good even karts too. Club members’ friends, workmates and family very welcome in the Team Enduro format. Cost Sunday 11 September - Leicester Airport, Gartree Rd. £40 a head for a fabulous evening of racing, followed by debrief at the pub! Please contact The Leicester Aero Club Open Day is a really week to walk straight! Anyway whilst the club John to reserve places. ALL WELCOME! enjoyable event, ideal for all the family. In includes cannot guarantee flights for all, if you get your air displays, our special Alfa Romeo line up that’s name down there’s a very good chance. open to all types and potential free pleasure flights Back on terra firma, we’ve got some brilliant Curborough Sprint too! The fantastic WW2 'War Birds' are expected driving activities lined up. The Twilight Drive at our again this year, flying in, doing displays and fly- September meeting in Thringstone is always Experience pasts. enjoyable; the Alfa convoy winding through some Please note - this is not a ‘full on’ air display lovely villages. Then we’ve got the brilliant karting Curborough Circuit near Lichfield open to the general public, it is a day primarily put night on 26 September, open to all friends and on by the Club for the benefit of the local residents family again. If only that excitement of wheel to Weds 28 Sept from 9.45am they regularly fly over. There’s some fundraising wheel racing haring into the turn at the end of the Our second visit of the year to this superb Sprint too for air ambulance. It is a super event with main straight could be bottled… wow! Come on, track which we will have to ourselves all day! No plenty to see. Admission is FREE to AROC get your names down! Then on the 28th we are competition, only one car on track at all times so members. We always recommend popping some back to the magnificent ‘Curburgring’ near Lichfield you can drive as hard or slow as you like. We had deck chairs in your car with a picnic, though there for our Curborough Circuit Sprint Experience ‘take a brilliant time earlier in the year, please let John is a bar with hot food available in the club house 2’. For this one Alfista Martin Brackenbury (owner know if you want to take part. Maximum 10 Alfas, situated in the Control Tower, and usually a of AFH1 Alfa Specialists in Mansfield) is bringing cost will be £66 a head. Additional drivers barbecue on in the display field too. along his amazing two-stroke racing kart for a welcome, spectators free. A FEW SPACES LEFT! Please note we can only accommodate Alfa demo session too - along with is 147 GTA of Romeos in our restricted display space, and room course. That will add even more entertainment. At for them will be on a first-come first-served basis time of writing there is still space, please contact on the day. Please do not arrive before 10am me asap to reserve a spot! though. In close, a huge thanks to all of our Section Last year a number of us were able to enjoy members who helped out at MITCAR. Fantastic job those pleasure flights. I managed to get up in the done!! Brief report inside, a longer version of yellow ‘flying banana’ biplane, the pilot doing some which will appear in the October Our Alfas on the amazing aerobatics with me in it too! Rolls, loops, edition of the AROC magazine. Summertime Spin. tail spins you name it, quite fantastic! It took me a See you soon! John Alfisti is edited and produced by INSIDE - reports and features: John Griffiths Midlands Italian Car Day - MITCAR AROC East Midlands Section Secretary Tel: 0774 8881317 Barbecue Night - August Meeting Email: [email protected] Brands Hatch Festival Italia Our website for all the latest . Fox Run 2 soon... Our Cars www.AROC-UK.com/EastMids and more Alfisti is sponsored by @AROCeastmids Karting night is on 26 September ■ Alfisti Issue 189 ■ September 2016 Brands Hatch Festival Italia Quite a queue getting 14 August saw the Kent circuit alive with Italian in - that’s a Lambo in cars. A few of our members made the trek down front of the bikes. and had a very enjoyable day. AROC’s Club Manager Nick Wright was theer bright and early to set up the Club’s present, taking the events gear in the AROC Van with its relatively new and very fitting private number plate - F14 ROC (think about it). He tells me the special AROC parking space was very soon filled up and that a number of members ended up parking in other more random Alfa parking spots. (Not surprised they underestimated our Club!) Matthew and Franki Manners took the white Chris Variava 4C Spider down, having avery enjoyable day. They kindly took the shots shown here. You can see there were some super Alfas— but there were also a large number cars from other Italian makes, notably Ferrari. On track, the BRSCC Alfas raced twice, there were several Ferrari races and an ‘open’ event. Track demos abounded too, and club member shad the chance for track parades too. A fun day by accounts. AROC is very likely to support it if Brands Hatch repeats it. John Beautiful Bertone Thanks to Matthew & Franki and Declan Gray Coupe in the AROC for the photos. Bottom row from AROC Facebook. Kent and East Sussex Section area. Above - big collection of Ferraris present Above - BRSCC Alfa Championship in action. Above - Over 200 Italian cars on the track parade FAST MOVERS Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikonnen may not have the fastest race cars this season, but their general road transport is in fine order. Here the pair pose with FCA’s latest company car, the mighty Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio, all 510hp and 191mph of it. We’re sure Seb will be particularly happy with the improvement on his previous company wagon— the simply horrible Infiniti SUV. In Alfisti communities there is still hope of Alfa Romeo returning to track. WE had all kinds of rumours in the F1 close season about the brand being brought back into F1, potentially replacing Sauber and using Ferrari customer engines, re-badged of course. Sig Marchionne carefully parked that one however back in March. Some haven’t given up hope of a full-works return in some form of Touring Car racing using said mighty Giulia. Sadly that has been quashed on numerous occasions, it would probably need a privateer outfit, similar to, if not actually, the Romeo Ferris guys who run the Giuliettas in the TCR series. Part of the challenge is finding something suitable. BTCC people shout, but the rules of that series with its one-type chassis, suspension, etc don’t really lend themselves to Alfa’s racing philosophy of demonstrating its own capabilities and prowess. John ALFISTI - AROC East Midlands Section Newsletter September 2016 - Issue 189 August Meeting at the George & Dragon, Thringstone Mark Gunston’s 4C LE leads David Lawton’s Spider V6 and Mike Croll’s GTV JTS on our run around the lanes. After days of dry weather, wouldn’t you just guess, it CambioCorsa Spider which looks great in light blue. broke down in north west Leicestershire at 6pm on Two beautiful Giulietta Spiders were there too our barbecue night. Happily the bit of fine drizzle belonging to Peter and Linda Farley (great to see was rather on and off and our members were them back along) plus Peter Cremer who’s car won completely undeterred! the public-vote ‘Car of the Day’ award at MITCAR Close to 40 cars over the evening and the 60 or last year. so of us present were able to enjoy some super Liam Jones - son of Paul and Liz - brought his barbecue food organised by Chef Josh and cooked drone along too and shot some great aerial footage by Chef Paul there on the night. Happily they had with it. It’s an amazing machine. Please see the the foresight to erect a shelter over the cooking footage from it via the link on our website. area so that was unaffected. Thanks as ever to all who came along to make it As ever there were lots of great cars to enjoy so enjoyable. We’re now hopeful for a bright sunny looking at, including four 4Cs (Brian, Viv, Mark and evening at our 14 September meeting at the G&D Chris V’s), plus Mark Sangster’s 595, and Claire which is the ‘Twilight Drive’. See you there! Vitale’s fairly recently acquired Maserati 4200 John (More photos on our website.) Brian Smith pressed his AROC brolly into service! Paul & Liz Jones’ son Liam here in action Peter and Linda Farley arrive in their with his drone. See our website for the wonderful Giulietta Spider video footage - it’s great! Steve Weston with his amazing wood carving of a 33 Stradale which was raffled for charity at MITCAR.