On May 31 this year, Jon Sleg and I will be driving a Nissan 350Z at the Spa-Francorchamps racetrack in Belgium. For a £2 donation directly to charity, you can guess our fastest laptime, with a great prize for the person closest to our time. The car will be fitted with a VBox+ and the fastest lap will be filmed and posted online. You can have multiple guesses at £2 a time, with all proceeds going to Wishes4Kids, a charity that grants wishes of terminally ill children. The winner will get a 1 year subscription to 3 great Car Magazines. *The winner gets a year's subscription to Evo and Practical Performance Car and Banzai Magazines ! *
In the event of a tie and/or multiple people guessing the exact time correctly, the first person to have entered wins. For those unfamiliar with the car / circuit, here is some info to help you guess an appropriate time :
Spa-Francorchamps is 4.352 miles long with 21 corners. The current lap record is Seb Vettel at 1 minute 47.263 seconds in a Red Bull Formula 1 car. The famously tricky Au Rouge corner has made me sick in my helmet before. Our Nissan 350Z has 296 BHP and a top speed limited to 155 mph. Sleg sometimes needs to stop for a wee mid lap.
You can enter by donating a minimum of £2 per guess (or equivalent in local currency €2 / 20 Krona / $2 etc). Add your full name together with your guess(es) in the following format –
For one guess - “Fred Smith / 4 minutes 2.765 secs / £2 donated”.
For two guesses - “Jane Smith / 2 minutes 30.001 secs and 2 minutes 59.882 secs / £4 donated”.
Feel free to donate more than the minimum of £2, for a small charity Wishes4Kids have done some great stuff for terminally ill kids, and I can assure you they genuinely appreciate your support.
The results will be posted here and published together with a short YouTube video after the event. Good luck and thanks for supporting a great charity. We're off to polish our helmets...
Thank you !
Rich Duisberg and Jon Sleg.
PS - Remember to put your contact details with your name when you donate, if we can't contact you, we can't give you the prize !
PPS - Guesses so far (27/05/2010) at the bottom of this page :
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