tooquicktostop Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 Took my 9 year old daughter to the usual seaside day out yesterday and a nice day it was, Southend in the sun is quite a good day out, but it is easy to spend £100 before you know it Today we woke up with no agenda, so I suggested a day near the river, she was not keen, well I live about 10 mins walk from Essex Raceway at Lakeside shopping centre and have done so for about 5 years, never been, so I suggested it and she agreed, at 12.30pm we left in the Vette to see whats what well.... This place has racing every weekend and has featured on a couple of the Top Gear specials (People carrier and bus racing), it is a very relaxed venue with ample parking, we arrived very early as racing starts at 2pm, we parked up and paid our £18 to get in (£12 adults and £6 child), soon found out it is best to bring your own seat as the only stand has none and the rest is grass and dirt, you can hire a deck chair however for £2 so we did that and it was very comfortable The racing lasted for 3 hours and featured some fantastic exciting stuff including 3 rounds of mini stock racing, 3 rounds of super stock racing (somevery nice fast driving), 3 rounds of banger racing which is great fun and very competative and finally a round of caravan distruction derby I was unsure how my 9 year old girlwas going to take 3 hours of racing but she loved it, the caravan and banger racing made her day, 10 caravans driven to destruction only feet away The circuit is a short oval and has a dirt oval on the inside for speedway, plenty of cheap food and drink, a bar and a great day out, something we will both do again very soon as they race every Sunday Thought I would post up the experience as I dont know about you but things to do with kids (or not in the case of car racing!!) can be tough to find that represent some value and fun for 3 hours + Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUPRALOOPY Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 Good there isn't it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pistonbroke Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 I concur, it's an awesome day out, though if you stand downwind, the dust kicked up can become overbearing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooquicktostop Posted April 25, 2010 Author Share Posted April 25, 2010 I concur, it's an awesome day out, though if you stand downwind, the dust kicked up can become overbearing They actually watered the dirt track today to prevent dust Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 I've been meaning to take the lads back down there, Both my 5yr old and the 13yr old love it there.. Maybe a get together is in order when they have something special like the van bangers again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tooquicktostop Posted April 25, 2010 Author Share Posted April 25, 2010 I've been meaning to take the lads back down there, Both my 5yr old and the 13yr old love it there.. Maybe a get together is in order when they have something special like the van bangers again. A meet would be great, they have a huge carpark so a Supra section would be easy to arrange They have a series of racing each week and next week the special is Robin Reliant destruction racing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrRalphMan Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 ahhh... I love that.. working the night, but maybe.... just maybe.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnd-mkiv Posted April 25, 2010 Share Posted April 25, 2010 a meet would be good there followed by some gokarting next door Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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