Please always let me know your feedback, it is important to me and my team.” Georgina said: “I joined the Museum team in May and love this unique and exciting venue. At G-Live I found my passion for looking after events and functions. My team and I are dedicated to giving you and all the Museum guests a great experience at every occasion.” And from Ross: “Since April you may have seen
me around the Museum working with the rest of the team. My career in hospitality began at Pine Ridge Golf Club in Camberley, where I quickly realised how much I enjoyed assisting customers booking their functions and interaction with members. We are now coming to the end of the busy summer period at the Museum and have received some great feedback. I am really looking
SUPERCAR SUNDAY
Honda NSX (Katharine Allen).
forward to building the customer experience at Brooklands and showing off its many unique attributes.”
So, as we move into the next season look out for some special offers, including celebrating Christmas at our Joiner Group Party Nights on 2nd or 21st December. Book a table for a mini- mum of eight guests and receive £5.00 off per person. Tickets are £47.50 plus VAT and include a three-course meal with coffee and chocolates, ‘White Christmas’ décor and theme, late night DJ and bar until 1.00am, Christmas crackers and table novelties. And finally, an apology to our sign-makers, Steve and Janet Pheasant, whose name was mis-spelt in the last Bulletin, sorry!
Steve Clarke News
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ith all the extra space available on the Finishing Straight, cars whose owners had been invited to participate in the lunch time demonstration runs on Mercedes-Benz World’s test track were assembled in their respective groups in the new space, making it easier for visitors to talk to the owners and view their favourite cars. There were four groups for the track action, segmented largely by national origin, which this year were paced by two special control cars. Auto Italia Editor, Chris Rees, was impressed by Honda’s return to the useable-supercar league with its “awesomely quick” new interpretation of the NSX. Its origins can be traced back to Italy in the 1984 HP-X (Honda Pininfarina eXperimental) concept before arriving in 1989, fully formed, as the NSX Series 1 and the first ‘daily-driver’ super-
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car. This was at the time when supercars were still the preserve of hairy-chested medallion-men. The second pace control car was the subject of some debate, with Auto Italia founder Phil Ward insisting his new Ferrari 488 was finished in Dino Rosso and definitely not a shade of orange, as voted for in an impromptu pop-vox! The NSX had its first blast on the test track straight leading a mixed, but largely American- engined, group including Adam Codosh’s 525bhp race-ready 1958 C1 Corvette competing with a Chrysler-powered Iso Rivolta racer for noisiest closed-wheel car of the day. Adam’s Corvette, which recently competed at the Brands Hatch Speedfest where driving duties were shared with brother Simeon, was never going to be comfortable on the tight, twisty Mercedes test track, the independently-sprung modern road
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