The DDK Nationals

[jtparr]

Surrey

[hot66]

You’re never going to get somewhere to suit all of us if it’s just a day meet up

Bicester is too far from up here ( 3.5hrs each way ) just to drive on motorways and stand about chatting for few hours just to drive back again .

Spa in Belgium is closer for me

Clive, I’d be interested in Ireland too

[stretch]

Anything north of Leeds is abroad to me. Are you the spokesman for the North then .? Not a very positive leader. Didn't a load of Southerners attend a few DDK events up country years ago.... wonder if there was uproar back then. How is it being selfish if Someone from Leeds, Swansea, Norfolk, Brighton all can get to a central point in under 3 hours.?

[stretch]

Not you James.... the bloke above you.

[Ian Comerford]

What about somewhere like Great Northern Classics, which isn’t really Northern but may feel that way to some southerners….
Near Derby, so maybe more acceptable?

https://www.greatnorthernclassics.co.uk/

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Nottinghamshire
Sladey
964RS
Ian2.2s

And me!


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[anglophone1]

It’s all a bloody long way for me and other Irish DDKers but we’ll try to make it anyway…..

[RobFrost]

What would work really well, is to attend a sprint at Curborough where there is ample parking, entry is £zero or next to zero, there is interesting stuff going on and we'd be free to stand about in a field next to the sprint course having a barbecue or whatever because the parking is not segregated from the course. Access is excellent, 2 mins off the A38.

The VSCC events are particularly good with a range of interesting old vehicles. 5th May. I think entry to this as a spectator might be £6.

https://www.vscc.co.uk/page/events?eventID=1915

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[jeremyg]

Curborough sounds a good shout, and a VSCC event could provide good entertainment. I haven’t put a slide rule over the relative distances between north and south contingents though. No doubt anyone feeling hard done by will voice their feelings.

[Ollie]

4 hours... from the South Coast... might be able to make a weekend of it with the family as have relatives in the area.

[inaglasshouse]

Surrey

Also Surrey

[jury]

Portland
Oregon
USA

Ready for when we go fully international

[jeremyg]

Oh heck.We’ll all just come round to your’s.

[yoda]

London for me, can travel!

[RobFrost]

As I see it there are two approaches which make most sense - split North/South, or a single Midlands event. North/South split would get closer to most people. Midlands is usually somewhere between Oxford and Warwick (Greatworth / Caffeine & Machine / Bicester / Boxengasse) - I've been to events in that vicinity a good number of times now and I'm happy to go again. But something North of Birmingham instead of South (e.g. right on my doorstep at Curborough ) would bring a Midlands event within range of more of the Northern members.