We left our respective dwellings expecting something small scale along the lines of the basketball "2 men and their dogs" crowd, but were very pleasantly surprised to find a full car park and around 3000 people there. All in all an excellent night, top racing, crashes, the ability to wander round the pits and look at the cars, and an unusually high ratio of normal coats to high vis coats. More on the scores later. Here's a few snaps to give you a flavor of the evening.
So, to the scores. A reminder that a complex scoring system gives us a number between 6 and 13 where 14 is best. So far Ice Hockey scored 10 ish, Rugby 8 ish and the Dogs 6 ish. Basketball comfortably leads the way with 13.51.
Stock cars scored as follows (each category out of 5):
Refreshments - 5 (Burgers and tea followed by little bags of sweets. Experience significantly improved by Mark ordering his burger in his best "geezers" voice - when in rome...)
Transport - 4 (3000 people = lots of cars but parking free and no real queue's to get out)
Merchandising - 5 (a wonderful range of stock car related tat. Not to mention the rather excellent looking autobiography shown below)
Quality of game - 5 (some great racing with top crashes, and we were rarely sure who had actually won but it didn't seem to matter!)
Entertaining extras - 5 (mainly the starter using ridiculous hand gestures and a wide range of flags)
Value for money - 4 (Good stuff, but a little pricy at £16)
Springfield Factor - 1 (Not much here, Coventry through and through)
Fellow Spectators - 3 (lots of them, many of them carrying random engine parts, but not enough banter to score 4 or 5)
All this gives 11.92. A good score but still lagging behind Basketball.
Mark has blogged some stuff about it too.
Remember, as Barry "Briggo" Briggs says "If in doubt, flat out..."
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