UKGTP8 Photos & Videos Thread

Mrs. Famine · Oct 29, 2007

As is always the tradition, after each GTP event there is a new thread created for showing off purposes.
I have no idea who is going to do the write up (Famine? daan?) but I thought i'd kick this thread off with a load of photos.
If you've any to share then post them in here

The venue before the whirlwind...

Pre-Ocho drinks and dinner...

Ocho Day One...

End of Day One, winding down at the Bowling Alley...

Day Two in the marquee...

Clio Endurance WinnArs...

Would you mess with this Scotsman?

Prizes time... (thank you to everybody who donated prizes

)

Award for Sustaining Famine Induced Head Injury...

What? Another prize?

Overall third place goes to Stevisiov...the person who declared "I'm not really very good you know" (and also got told off for underage drinking!)

A very well deserved overall second place for Jan, one of the 'Dutch Guys' (so so close)

WinnAr!!! (again...)

note: check out his expression. You'd think he'd be pleased to win!!

Special Award for Venari, Mr Organising Man...

Caption Comp anyone?

Time to clear it all away, ready for next time...

Post event, out into the car park we go...

And now for some pictures of the special guest. These have been carefully selected to attempt to help prevent getting Venari into trouble!
(Any dodgy ones, please let me know Mark and i'll remove them)

Wait a minute...who is that??

More to the point, it was not too far after 7am when this was taken. Of a clearly mental person.

Ohhhh, that's what it is!!

You can't park that there!

Enjoy.

daan · Oct 29, 2007

Here are some of my photos

Some of the following have put on funny faces. I'll leave you to guess which ones...

Our esteemed host, Mark/Venari

Al/Bookerman

Mark/Sukerkin

Jan

Should be called "Jaan" as all the fast guys have 2 a's in their name. Isn't that right, Sjaak?

Ralph/Blacksheep

Nigel/Sureshot

Mike/Ren-Tec

Dave/Car-less (Even though he has one...) :confused:

Alex/Alex.

Andrew/Famine

Steve/Stevisiov90

Nathan/Roo

Playing GT4 or taking a dump? You decide...

Dave/VEXD

Mark/Mark T

Photo taken before head injury. More info below

Lee/Bee

Can he even see the screen?

Sjaak/Sjaak68

Rob/Carrera4... oops no, sorry, its AMG.

Ruud

Another fast guy with 2, duplicated, vowels in his name. There's a link there somewhere...

Laura/Queen Bee

The Dutch LAN

They brought all of that in a van and a car. Amazing.

What the Dutch get up to in the privacy of their own homes is up to them...

Steve and prize

Steve and yet another prize

Bert looks scared in case Andrew kisses him...

Bert with his Nick Heidfeld look-a-like prize

Clio Endurance race winners - Lee, Mike & The Rock

Andrew and prize for doing car testing and car-lists and sorting tracks and bringing cables and switches or something or other....

Andrew and Mark compare prizes

Dave with the overall winner's trophy

Bert playing GT5, while Gary the snail takes tips...

Crowd gathers round watching Bert playing GT5

Andrew & Kendra playing air hockey

Kendra

Injuries sustained.
Mark T was assaulted on the head by an air hockey puck fired at him at warp 7.5 by Andrew. Luckily for Andrew, we don't have an infraction for such an event, so we gave him a severe warning. Mark's thumb was eaten by his car's door.

What Mark T should have worn to play the air hockey...

Nathan looking quite pleased about something...

And finally...

No caption necessary...

TheCracker · Oct 29, 2007

Looks 'cosy' in there compared to Newark's Sq footage. I'm still very upset i couldn't make it.

sukerkin · Oct 29, 2007

Sadly, the work Net Nannie wont let the pictures through so I shall have to wait until I get home before I can see just how much my gurning for the camera improved my looks :lol:

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kikie · Oct 29, 2007

Nice photos.

DustDriver · Oct 29, 2007

I still have to work on finding the ideal compression so that the quality is better, but here's the first uploaded vid:

Touring Mars · Oct 29, 2007

Great pics! That one of Venari and sjaak is priceless, as is the portrait shot of Nigel :lol:

Looking forward to reading the results! Props to the event organisers and everyone who brought all of that stuff :bowdown:

... I hope to make the next one, unless I win the national lottery in which case it might have to be SFGTP3 instead

Glad to see that the 'special guest' made it along too! :eek:

kikie · Oct 29, 2007

DustDriver
I still have to work on finding the ideal compression so that the quality is better, but here's the first uploaded vid:

Is this how you guys "have a good time" at the venue?

daan · Oct 29, 2007

Unhinged? Do I look unhinged, Kendra?

:dopey:

Venari · Oct 29, 2007

Heh, we got a diswbled sign in the group shot!

Talking of shot, probably all of those Aston photos will get me shot, but hey, I care not. Personally, I'll just point out that I am not the person who A) applied the DBS badge, or B) the person who designed or made the jigging to locate it during fit, nor C) the QC inspector who passed it off for presentation to the wider world.

I didn't realise Sjaak had also seen the naked boobies! I thought I was imagining things...

Sureboss · Oct 29, 2007

In the 2nd picture at the bowling Alley, it looks like someone has turned the switch to 'Evil' in Bert's head.

DustDriver · Oct 29, 2007

kikie
Is this how you guys "have a good time" at the venue?

Jan didn't like to drive those slow cars, so he decided to take the minolta for the last race. I then asked him to push me

G.T · Oct 29, 2007

That's one seriously sexy DBS... Those wheels!

Looks like you had an awesome time, guys. I will have to force myself to come next time - it really was a little awkward to go currently. Brett has already offered me a lift, so really there isn't an excuse... But if you're going bowling again I think I'll definitely miss out.

BTW, who has the Porsche?

Mark T · Oct 29, 2007

G.T
BTW, who's was the Porsche?

AMG.

DustDriver · Oct 29, 2007

It was AMG's Porsche (that sounds so wrong :dopey:

)

edit: tree'd

VEXD · Oct 29, 2007

Im such a noob at this foto posting thing...

Here goes, hope theyre not too mahoosive now....

I took crap pix, but i thought id share a couple.

He got a shock everytime he sat in a carseat, time for new underwear Roo.

Molly couldnt wait to take part, well done to Ren-Tec for Dragging her out of that seat later...

The retractable Faminecam had popped up to get some shots..... Steve turned out to be almost as black a sheep as Blacksheep. Milford Inchargicle oversaw everything from Bomber Command

Venari started the Dutchican wave, but Blacksheep was too engrossed to notice

The Dutch did what they do best after a hard days English-butt-kicking...

This guy is in charge of the WRS... Good job Sjaakie. :bowdown:

Jan

If these work, i may post more, but im looking forward to Roo's pics, and a certain Nurb vid Daan?
:irked:

👍

V1P3R · Oct 29, 2007

Wow! massive event there! :scared:

Great looking fun though. 👍

Nice pics everyone.

Speedster502 · Oct 29, 2007

Thanks for making me want to go Venari. :grumpy:

Car-less · Oct 29, 2007

daan
Dave/Car-less (Even though he has one...)

Correction. Had one for the weekend. Like Venari my wheels were not my own and had to be returned. Unlike Venari's which were to die for, mine were more the kind you wouldn't want to be seen dead in.

Anyway, I'm just going to throw in a quick thanks to our host (Venari), organiser (Famine), Race Control (Kendra), and Drivers (everyone else) before my...

🤬 🤬 internet conection dies again.

Hopefully see you all again next time when I might go a bit more upmarket and borrow a diesel.

[waits for occasionally-on broadband to reconnect before clicking submit]

Roo · Oct 29, 2007

One to kick off - the Class of 2007:

From left to right, back row: Ruud, Mark (Blacksheep), Jaan, David (VEXD), Rob (AMG.), Mark (Venari), Lee (Bee), Laura (Queen Bee), Nigel (Sureshot), David (daan), Bert (DustDriver), David (Car-less), Mark (Mark T), Sjaak (sjaak68), Mike (Ren-Tec), Molly, Steve (Stevisiov90).
Middle row: Our special guest!
Front row: Kendra (Milford Cubicle), definitely-not-Andy Andrew (Famine).

Not shown: Alex (Alex.), Mike (Only_in_F1), Mark (sukerkin), Michelle, Nathan (Roo).

I think I've got everyone's name right - please let me know if I haven't. I have a hard enough time remembering 1 name, so 2 was a bit tricky...

Incidently, I took 154 photos - and 53 of those involved the Aston

I'll upload more tomorrow.

Lee · Oct 29, 2007

Roo
[SNIP]One to kick off - the Class of 2007[/SNIP]

*Set as desktop backround*

Awesome.

ceiling_fan · Oct 29, 2007

Bee I didn't know you were 8 feet tall!

Anyway, to add on to daan's caption:

Lee · Oct 29, 2007

ceiling_fan
Bee I didn't know you were 8 feet tall!

Not quite yet.

Just to milk out the Enduro win..

Yep that's on the back of a shirt that I shall wear to every future meet I turn up at..

TopHat · Oct 29, 2007

Aww man I need to go to one of these GTP meets someday. :indiff:

daan · Oct 30, 2007

VEXD
and a certain Nurb vid Daan?
👍

Sureboss · Oct 30, 2007

I wonder who thought of such a good idea :sly:

Diego440 · Oct 30, 2007

Awesome pics, kids!

Love the beard, Bert... you look almost like me, save for a few kilos

Was the LAN lacking a certain Specialized and EXelero, or am I asking too much? I have't spoken to either in ages.

Roo · Oct 30, 2007

The People

– Mmmm, pudding.

Jaan in the blue vs Vexd in the Screaming Yellow Mustangs, for 2 laps of the 'ring to decide the Coupe Handicap... and after 16 minutes it was that close:

Mark, unspecting...

... but undeterred

daan · Oct 30, 2007

Another vid.

This is Famine in the McLaren F1, being tagged by me :dunce:

first of all *, then another Mercedes CLK joined in.

* I was going to wait for him, but when he straightened up he spun the other way, so I took the decision not to wait. I won the race BTW...

Roo

The cider remained un-spilled, Diego. Honest.

Roo

Hehe.

Is that a jealous look you've got there, Mark? :dopey:

DustDriver · Oct 30, 2007

-Diego-
Love the beard, Bert... you look almost like me, save for a few kilos

I'll see that as a complement :sly:

To be honest, the previous lan was one of the fews days a year that i don't have a beard.

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