Hi Guys,
Just received the following email from the Stroke Association;
Hi Peter
Thank you so much to all of your members who braved the weather on Saturday. I can’t believe how different Sunday was! Despite having to close the event early, we still manage to raise over £7160 and this will go up when we get the money in from the Autosolo and our share of the gate money.
Our photographer will be sending us through his photos from the day and we will upload them onto our Facebook page this week.
Thank you again, fingers crossed next year is drier!
All the best
Amy
Great charity event but they do need to change the name of this one as its more performance car Saturday than Supercar.
Yes Andy, regarding that Supercar handle I trawled a few definitions from the internet as follows and therefore agree:
Supercar
noun. A high-performance sports car. 'At normal, respectable speeds it drives without the unwieldy nature that afflicts many
supercars.' ... 'Yet it has none of the temperament of
supercars that are derived from racing machines.'
Oxford English Dictionary
a very expensive fast or powerful car with a centrally located engine.
Collins English
Dictionary.
supercar definition: a very fast car, usually one that is an unusual or rare type.
Cambridge Dictionary
A
supercar – also called
exotic car – is a loosely defined description of certain high-performance street-legal sportscars. Since the 1990s or 2000s, the term
hypercar has come into use for the highest performing supercars. In the United States,
muscle cars were often referred to as "Supercars" during the 1960s.
Wikipedia
I believe that a Pagani and a spinning McLaren conform and did appear amongst the track entries and there probably were others.
I personally would not apply the term to the competition cars in the paddock as they are designed to conform to a specific set of regulations which often make them illegal for use on public roads and most use racing tyres which are not legal for the road.
I was involved at Lotus in 1970
in the design of a special car for GKN which was based on the Europa but had a 4.2 litre 300 bhp Rover V8 instead of the Renault.
It was intended to be a 180mph road car and was actually timed at 175mph.
I drove it at 150mph with an observer during our development testing on the Lotus track. It ran on special Goodyear road legal tyres using their rally special tread pattern and interestingly was fitted out as a luxury executive express.
This to my mind was a Supercar – it was road registered and was built up to a standard rather than down to a Lotus weight!
One can only assume that the Stroke Association know that their clients respond to ‘Supercar’ on the front cover.
It seems to work bringing in the punters even on a day like Saturday!