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| Likeomg Member Since: 29 Jun 2012 Location: Lake District / Newcastle Posts: 2642  
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Hello gentlemen,
A friend is a dealer principle of a British ‘luxury’ car maker who have recently brought out a suv, he is looking to do a event for customers / potential customers, taking factory cars off-road for a day. Does anybody have any suggestions of pay and play / suitable areas in the north east, closer to Newcastle the better, somewhere near Croft has been mentioned as the event could be combined with a track day for the more performance orientated models along with the new suv... I don’t know of anywhere near Croft but it may exist? Also somewhere near cramlington was mentioned We will be doing a scouting drive somewhere around the 17th so any suggestions are welcome, looking for somewhere fairly challenging but not winch spec full cage routes, steep ups and downs would be a bonus.. Thanks |
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3rd Sep 2020 1:00pm |
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| Likeomg Member Since: 29 Jun 2012 Location: Lake District / Newcastle Posts: 2642
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Just to add, this will be with factory drivers in the car with participants on the off road tracks
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3rd Sep 2020 1:17pm |
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| Chris86 Member Since: 15 Jul 2014 Location: South Yorks Posts: 789  
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Hi, have dropped you a PM.
Regards Chris |
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3rd Sep 2020 2:54pm |
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| DSC-off Member Since: 16 Oct 2014 Location: North East Posts: 1428 
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Deepdale Off-road, Barnard Castle, is the only place I can think of that's not too far from Croft. They normally only do driver training or instructed drives, not a "pay and play" type place.
https://www.deepdaleoffroad.com/leisureevents.php Just remember to check your eyesight before setting out. Especially if you and your family live in London and are suffering from Covid symptoms. Even if you have a mate called Boris.  |
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3rd Sep 2020 7:24pm |
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| PCM Member Since: 25 Jan 2019 Location: North East Posts: 874
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Try All out adventures. It's about 30 mins from Newcastle in a beautiful area/country park. They do an off road course but rent the place out for the day to manufacturers. Quite a cool course too.
info@alloutadventures.co.uk The Pursuits Centre, Slaley Hall Hotel, Slaley, Hexham, Northumberland, NE47 0BX 01434 676980 |
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4th Sep 2020 12:07pm |
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| Likeomg Member Since: 29 Jun 2012 Location: Lake District / Newcastle Posts: 2642
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Thanks guys, this is exactly the type of thing we are looking for...
Liam |
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4th Sep 2020 11:09pm |
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| Likeomg Member Since: 29 Jun 2012 Location: Lake District / Newcastle Posts: 2642
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The reason for suggesting pay and play, we need a route that’s not going to have customers sliding 160k 4x4’s into trees but they get a feel for how capable the cars actually are can pick and choose the route, it will be signed off by a factory driver before the event and then everyone will have a factory driver whilst going around the course..
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4th Sep 2020 11:15pm |
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| MartinK Member Since: 02 Mar 2011 Location: Silverdale (Lancashire/Cumbria Border) Posts: 2665 
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A bit further North, but I once went to Ronnie Dale and he was excellent -- quite a setup... http://www.ronniedale4x4.co.uk/ Defender "Puma" 2.4 110 County Utility (possibly the last of the 2.4's)
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7th Sep 2020 4:36pm |
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| DSC-off Member Since: 16 Oct 2014 Location: North East Posts: 1428
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My memory of Pay and Play sites was they were well worn, rutted tracks, often through trees, where people thrashed around in vehicles that would struggle to meet the MOT requirements. No facilities, because nobody cared. Not the sort of place to demonstrate any new vehicle. Driver training sites on the other hand are likely to have a variety of terrain where inexperienced drivers can learn to drive in safety. Risk of damage and injury will have been considered when designing the site or routes through it. Because they are run as a serious business, they will have things like toilets, a briefing room, tea and coffee. The things buyers of premium brand vehicles expect.  |
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7th Sep 2020 5:18pm |
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| Likeomg Member Since: 29 Jun 2012 Location: Lake District / Newcastle Posts: 2642
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I’ve passed all the info onto my friend,
The reason I was thinking pay and play was due to having factory drivers with everyone, if the sites in question then want there instructors in, that’s 2 seats taken up and a larger ‘social bubble’ Lots of Covid precautions will be taken, track trace masks gloves and sanitising of vehicles.. |
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7th Sep 2020 6:39pm |
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| Likeomg Member Since: 29 Jun 2012 Location: Lake District / Newcastle Posts: 2642
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Bit of a last moment get together,
Found 2 venues for next months day out... great day and honestly the car impressed me so much.  Click image to enlarge Will have to rotate later, currently out in my mobile device |
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17th Sep 2020 6:45pm |
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| Likeomg Member Since: 29 Jun 2012 Location: Lake District / Newcastle Posts: 2642
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definitely a interesting day with the weather, but we had a great day out getting a little muddy... think a standard defender might of struggled on a few of the bits of the course (like the DBX did but a good day out..)
thanks to all that offered advice on running the event, was a good success. Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Click image to enlarge Full library for anyone interested https://imgur.com/a/k8ksyoo |
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15th Oct 2020 9:00pm |
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| Co1 Member Since: 19 Aug 2018 Location: North Yorkshire Posts: 3681 
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Looks good. Much expensive pinstriping?!
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16th Oct 2020 5:12am |
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| Likeomg Member Since: 29 Jun 2012 Location: Lake District / Newcastle Posts: 2642
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they are pretty well protected with PPF, the orange one had over 40k in options... including carbon fibre sills which are a 10k option... it grounded out a few times
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16th Oct 2020 8:09am |
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