Hello Twistedsanity,
I'm Andy, part of the event organising team of for V8UK and the UK Power Tour. I feel like it's only fair I correct some of those points you've made, as it's all too easy to hear what someone said, and it be taken as gospel.
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Went to the first one, badly organised and more like the Vauxhall owners club meet, I was going to do the tour which was apparently ruined when one of the organisers decided To do do a rolling burnout destroying the youth rugby club field that had been kindly Offered For camping, added to the moaning about not taking a change of tyres by people etc. I got the impression if it was a brewery in need of a piss up that would also have been a struggle
I remember you turning up at our second 'Full Power Launch' which has traditionally been our season kick off meet. Normally at a speed shop or workshop which kindly opens its doors to any one who comes along on the day. All our events are entirely free to attend and organising all of this is entirely done out of our own free time and pockets. These normally include a now traditional 'Convoy' to another location or just a quick 20-30 minute drive around the block such as the last two Full Power Launches at Topcats Racing.
You may notice a large portion of Vauxhall VXR8s and Monaros because that is what the club was formed from, a group of owners who weren't happy with events offered for V8 owners, of which mainly consisted of stuck up Pistonhead meets. V8UK offers an alternative which is seemingly very popular. As stated above, we do this all out of our own spare time, we are not professional organisers but we try our best. Having now run 4 Full Power Launches with over 200 cars turning up to each one we feel we're doing something right.
You were indeed signed up to our first UK Power Tour, but never turned up. Again this was a free event organised by ourselves and put together in the hope to give the UK what the US enjoys in the Hot Rod Drag Week. Now, the events of the first night. No, there were no rolling burnouts and no, there was no ruined youth rugby pitch. There was a stuck Monaro trying to move and unfortunately wheelspinning a bit before parking up for the night. This unfortunately woke up some of the other campers. All was resolved the next morning with all the organisers and the groundskeeper of the rugby pitch who said it was nothing and that the grass gets churned up worse during a rugby match.
On a first event the rules were very loose, with the aim of just trying to get as many people along as possible. The tyre issue is not a new one and before the first day of the event it had been clarified to all those who entered. It can't be helped if people weren't happy with the ruling, but it follows the same rules as Street Eliminator class which has been successfully running for years.
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The field was on the "power tour" rather than the power meet, glad you had a good time, was it heavily populated by pot bellied white tee-shirt wearing 50somethings all driving Monaro's?
Our meets are very diverse, as was the second Full Power Launch meet which you attended, there was a strong 20 or so contingency of VXR8s and Monaros, but that made up a small fraction of the cars in attendance. In fact, if you'd given us another go last Sunday, you probably would've been pleasantly surprised with the strong turn out of 5th Gen Camaros who not only demonstrated how to arrive in style, but also ruled the dyno with one 5th Gen kicking out an impressive 749hp at the wheels.
Thank you Oddball for coming along and posting this up, I had lost the link for this site and have only just found the forum again from a post on Facebook, otherwise I would've put a link up to the event myself. We are arranging an American Speedfest stand and several more RWYB events and a dyno meet up North for our further afield members.
Kind regards,
Andy