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As I mentioned briefly in the original post, it was such an awesome day, even though it was wet, it was still amazing fun, if anything, the rain added to the fun in some cases too.  
 
The day consisted of 4 teams; Andon (my team in Black with Jamie_gt86), Genchi Genbutsu (Blue which had Kesler?, SkallyB and Smudge), Poka-Yoke (Grey which had nikndel and knightryder) and Kaizen (Red which had Deacon and Tareim), competing in 4 different events.  The rest of the team members were other randomers but each team had roughly 10 people, Toyota picked 40 people to attend out of 100's of applicants, sadly not all 40 turned up, but this was good for the other visitors as they got a chanced to take part as well.  Most of the other members were also enthusiasts, people from MR2 clubs, Celica clubs etc.  The four events were:
 
Egg and Spoon - It’s an old favourite, but instead of a small spoon with a normal sized egg, we had a giant spoon mounted to the front of a Toyota Auris Hybrid with a giant egg (with was just a blow-up fitness ball. We had to drive the Auris Hybrid around a twisty track with a partner who would need to jump out at a moments notice to retrieve the egg if it was to fall off, the once you've done one lap, you would need to quickly swap drivers and do another lap while being timed (though not too fast that you forget to turn the car off and allow the car to roll on Smudge :lol: ).
 
Penalty Shoot Out - Each contestant had roughly 2 1/2 minutes to score as many goals as possible, Top Gear style, which meant jumping into an Toyota Aygo to ram/punt a giant sized blow-up football into a goal only slightly bigger than the football itself.  Though nikndel managed to kill the ball pretty much at the start of the day....luckily there were spares  :lol:
 
Balance the Ball - Similar to the Egg and Spoon but this time the drivers jump into a Toyota Hilux and navigate a course off road (just on grass). But instead of an egg at the front of the car, instead the blow-up ball is suspended on a net in the truck’s bed, and the aim is to finish the course without the ball bouncing out of the bed in the shortest time.
 
Auto Test - Drivers jumped into a Toyota GT86 and had to drive around a tight course made of cones which consisted of hair pin turns, donuts and slaloms. 2 practice runs and then a timed run with everything turned off....while the course was wet....which mean awesome fun and awesome drifts!
 
While this was going on, people could grab a ride along with 2 drivers who drove a Toyota GT86 around the airfield track, getting upto 130mph and going sideways around corners. And then right at the end of the day, they hosted a Who's Fastest contest, each contestant (no longer in teams) would have 1 practice run and then a timed run around a very small auto test course in a GT86.
 
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Jamie_gt86 thought we were killing it on the egg and spoon race....we both had a clean run with a 4:27 run I think....but turns out Deacon's team somehow managed a 4:01 run in the afternoon :(
 
As for the Auto Test, I had a really good 2nd practice run of roughly 33.6 seconds, but on my actual timed run, I over cooked a donut and span out which added 6.5 seconds to my previous time so I ended up with a 40.1 second run which I'm gutted about :angry:
 
Next we did the Balance the Ball in the Hilux, again me and Jamie partnered up and we both had clean runs (2 runs each, fastest timed counted). Jamie managed a 45.94 I think while I only managed a 47 something, but I was feeling sick as while we went around, the whole time I would be looking backwards to make sure the ball was stable and in position to speed up etc. Reckon our team won this event  :P
 
And last of all, the Penality Shootout didn't actually counted in the end as it was too windy and difficult, some people didn't even managed to score a single goal, but I think I managed 4 or 5, but at this point it was just full power, punt and wish for the best as there was no real aim due to the wind and the uneven ground etc as you were on wet grass...which also meant lots of wheel spin....and in turn this resulted in me stalling the call embarrassingly as I tried to slowly set off.
 
As for the final Auto Test, I didn't even get to find out my time, they just announed the top 8 which then did another run for the top 4 and then a final showdown between the top 2. I messed up cos I went wide and ended up spinning the back end out onto the grass and full side ways drift back onto the tarmac which added time to my run :angry:
 
But still an awesome time, such an epic day, it was more about the taking part and I loved being able to rag an 86 around a course with everything turned off. Drifting around cones without worrying about damaging my own car as it was Toyota's instead, awesome time.  The Silverstone Staff and Toyota GB staff who organised and hosted this event were all awesome, each person got a team T-Shirt, breakfast, drinks and snacks throughout the day as well as a team themed packed lunch! Can't thank them enough for such an awesome day.  We were told that Toyota do this each year overseas so let's hope they continue this here and they organise another event next year!

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And last of all, the Penality Shootout didn't actually counted in the end as it was too windy and difficult, some people didn't even managed to score a single goal, but I think I managed 4 or 5, but at this point it was just full power, punt and wish for the best as there was no real aim due to the wind and the uneven ground etc as you were on wet grass...which also meant lots of wheel spin....and in turn this resulted in me stalling the call embarrassingly as I tried to slowly set off.
 
As for the final Auto Test, I didn't even get to find out my time, they just announed the top 8 which then did another run for the top 4 and then a final showdown between the top 2. I messed up cos I went wide and ended up spinning the back end out onto the grass and full side ways drift back onto the tarmac which added time to my run :angry:
 
But still an awesome time, such an epic day, it was more about the taking part and I loved being able to rag an 86 around a course with everything turned off. Drifting around cones without worrying about damaging my own car as it was Toyota's instead, awesome time.  The Silverstone Staff and Toyota GB staff who organised and hosted this event were all awesome, each person got a team T-Shirt, breakfast, drinks and snacks throughout the day as well as a team themed packed lunch! Can't thank them enough for such an awesome day.  We were told that Toyota do this each year overseas so let's hope they continue this here and they organise another event next year!

 

 

no wonder the red team didn't fair to well in the results then as all of our team scored at least 2 goals, knew it was fixed somehow :D but yeah it was a great day and would love to do it again

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-Fastest in Balance the Ball. 45.1 on my 1st run IIRC

-1 Penalty scored

-35.1 in the Autotest

-4:07 in Egg and Spoon with my team mate (AKA my bitch) Nikndel. 2nd fastest of the day.

-Top 8 in head to head - a cone hit dropped me from 3rd to 8th so missing out on the last 4.... It would have meant that the woman that won wouldn't have got to that round.

--Winning team!!--

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It was an awesome day.

I got 54.22 on the 4x4

2 penalties

Quickest in the autotest of 32.01

Egg and spoon we got something like 6 minutes - the drone was flying over us and kept knocking the egg off!

I got a high 17's in the knockout but murdered a cone (twice!) So that was the end of that!

Really was so much fun though - the t-shirts were really nice and I loved the lunch boxes.

I've got a real sports day at school tomorrow - don't think it's going to be quite as good somehow...

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The head-to-head at the end of the day is REALLY bugging me!

 

The guy who was making all the announcements (can't remember his name) told me that I did a 17.66 on my 1st run and then was 2 seconds slower in the next stage?! I could've sworn I was faster but they weren't able to tell me if I hit a cone or not? I can't imagine I did a 14/15 second run and then had a time penalty for the cone, but at the same time I didn't think I was slower

 

17.66 was the fastest time out of all the stages - WHY DID HE TELL ME THIS?! Sooooo annoyed (with myself) but still had a fantastic time

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Squashed the football still doing the auto test added 1 minute to every other team on the basket ball when no one was looking but did do rather well with Steve in the egg and spoon all fair and square!

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