Mazda Zoom Zoom challenge in Mondello

fletch

Have to admit to being a little disappointed alright although I kinda knew it was too good to be true but hopefully the driver horses the cars around at least.
At the race school, each driver gets individual tuition from an experienced instructor, can't imagine Mazda doing that for every invitee.
Will be watching out for fellow boardies...

DeVore

Anan1 wrote: »

You need a full license, i'm afraid. Mazda make cars, not karts.;)

Coulda fooled me

DeV.

C_Breeze

Just got the confirmation email!

and it says....


"Hot laps in the RX-8 and CX-7, agility tests in the Mazda2 and off-road driving in the BT-50 are amongst the surprises on hand to test your driving skills!"

So it seems we will get to Drive the cars! ..or that's whats being implied anyway

For any further questions it gives a name & number . .. Anyone wanna call just to be sure to be sure!!

ciarsd

And here I was thinking I was the lucky one with competitions!

I clarified the day with Philip from Mazda about 20 minutes ago... Good news and bad I'm afraid.

Good: you will get to drive the cars/jeep etc

Agility - in a Mazda 2
Road Testing - Mazda CX7
Fast Laps - Mazda RX8 and Mazda 3MPS
Offroad - Mazda BT50
Fast Laps - Mazda MX5

Bad: there are 78 confirmed invites - within a 6 hour day including lunch...

Táck

allowing the public to drive a 3mps, is a bit like giving a loaded gun to an american teenager having a bad day in school...

C_Breeze

Táck wrote: »

allowing the public to drive a 3mps, is a bit like giving a loaded gun to an american teenager having a bad day in school...

eh , no .

barryfitz

Táck wrote: »

i'd be very suprised if random members of the public and or employees and associated were allowed just horse them around mondello!

This was the case when I got to drive the stones off the 3.3L Brera two summers ago. albeit not on a track

Dont see why Mazda cant do it

thos

See below.

Just responding to your query re. hotlaps.

You as a driver will be driving the track in a range of our cars. You will be driving in convey with a safety car, but it will be at speed.

Secondly there will be hot laps where a pro-driver will drive you round the track to show the maximum abilities of the vehicles.

In addition there will be other driving modules such as agility tests and off road driving.

See you on Sunday,

Regards
Richard

Richard Molloy
_______________________
Public Relations Manager

fletch

Wonder what "at speed" means, powersliding and drifting around the corners?? He also doesn't explicitly state that we'll be driving the RX-8 or Mazda3 MPS, just a range of cars

Edit - Have to say I am looking forward to the "hot" laps as the driver will probably be able to drive a lot quicker than I would, so it should make for a few interesting laps.

thos wrote: »

See below.

Just responding to your query re. hotlaps.

You as a driver will be driving the track in a range of our cars. You will be driving in convey with a safety car, but it will be at speed.

Secondly there will be hot laps where a pro-driver will drive you round the track to show the maximum abilities of the vehicles.

In addition there will be other driving modules such as agility tests and off road driving.

See you on Sunday,

Regards
Richard

Richard Molloy
_______________________
Public Relations Manager

C_Breeze

With 78 confirmed invites in a 6 hr day , im not sure how much driving we'll each get to do.

I'm sure a few people will be left dissappointed

fletch

C_Breeze wrote: »

With 78 confirmed invites in a 6 hr day , im not sure how much driving we'll each get to do.

I'm sure a few people will be left dissappointed

Yeh this marketing ploy could end up having a very negative effect for them!

C_Breeze

well i'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they know what they are doing and it has been organised properly.

The fact that you cant even bring one friend or family member is crap though

fletch

C_Breeze wrote: »

well i'll give them the benefit of the doubt and assume they know what they are doing and it has been organised properly.

The fact that you cant even bring one friend or family member is crap though

Yeh on the form I filled out it mentioned being able to bring a passenger along.....anyways, just had a look at Mazda.ie, and seems like the new CX-7 comes with the same 2.3 turbo from the 3 MPS, so that should be fun to drive too

C_Breeze

fletch wrote: »

Yeh on the form I filled out it mentioned being able to bring a passenger along.....anyways, just had a look at Mazda.ie, and seems like the new CX-7 comes with the same 2.3 turbo from the 3 MPS, so that should be fun to drive too

Yeah its the same lump out of the 6 MPS and 3 MPS .. im not sure if it is a de-tuned version but it has a much slower sprint and top speed. - Probably because of the extra weight though. Should be good fun anyway

fletch

I presume we don't need to print off the email that it is okay to arrive and they'll have our names, bit of a silly question maybe I know!

C_Breeze wrote: »

Yeah its the same lump out of the 6 MPS and 3 MPS .. im not sure if it is a de-tuned version but it has a much slower sprint and top speed. - Probably because of the extra weight though. Should be good fun anyway

260PS, 380Nm and a 0-60 of 8 seconds so I don't think it's detuned.

fletch

Well I think everyone will agree that it was a pretty amazing day. In the end, we got to drive all the cars, BT-50, Mazda2, Mazda5, CX-7, MX-5 and of course the RX-8 and Mazda3 MPS Oh and also Segways

Edit - Oh and really enjoyed the "hot" lap in the MX-5, spent most of it sideways

Edit 2 - Oh and to the Leon Cupra driver who hogged the middle lane on the N7 from the Kingswood Interchange to Naas, what the hell were you thinking!!!??? I am guessing that you are not on boards as I'm sure you should know better. Anyway if you are, care to explain your actions??

the magician

Was a very cool day alright. Had a lot of fun really enjoyed it. Would have liked a bit more time on the track but overall as a taste of everything it was sweet.

The mazda 3 mps and rx-8 are really nice machines. Quite liked the cx-7 as well even though i think that class of car is a waste normally.

Also Segways FTW. We should all be going to work on them lol:cool:

C_Breeze

I thought it was absolutely brilliant!.. you really got a taste of all the cars they had on offer and got a decent blast in the RX-8 and 3 MPS (the power & sound of that was amazing!)

I really enjoyed it and it was actually better than I had expected, very well organised overall!

Fletch was on my team for the day... fair play to him on the 'Cage challange' - very well executed!

fletch

C_Breeze wrote: »

I thought it was absolutely brilliant!.. you really got a taste of all the cars they had on offer and got a decent blast in the RX-8 and 3 MPS (the power & sound of that was amazing!)

I really enjoyed it and it was actually better than I had expected, very well organised overall!

Fletch was on my team for the day... fair play to him on the 'Cage challange' - very well executed!

Thanks and well done yourself on the agility course, very smooth. (Fastest time of the day if I remember correctly )

I can't sleep now, everytime I close my eyes I'm driving around that track in my head!

barryfitz

great day alright. Was impressed by the cx7 aswell. That yoke really held the road well on the track. The MX5 was more fun to drive that the rx8 IMHO. although the hotlap in the Rx8 was savage. Off roading was class aswell, pity the course wasnt a bit longer though. Overall a great day.

C_Breeze

Yeah off-roading in the BT-50 was great too. The pick-ups were actually very capable as opposed to just a novelty! .. Got 85/100 there

barryfitz

90 for me but the other 2 with me got 95. I slipped off those blasted kerbs just as I was coming off them!!!!

barryfitz

sorry now but did anyone else find it strange that the two people that won prizes already owned Mazda's? I know there were a good few Mazda owners there on the day But the guy knew their occupation and everything. I never told anyone what I do for a living?

Not that I care, just wondering?

C_Breeze

barryfitz wrote: »

sorry now but did anyone else find it strange that the two people that won prizes already owned Mazda's? I know there were a good few Mazda owners there on the day But the guy knew their occupation and everything. I never told anyone what I do for a living?

Not that I care, just wondering?

whoops , yeah i actually got 95 there! (finger slipped on the keyboard)

I think you did tell them what you do for a living, it was part of the entry form on the net to select your occupation!

Yeah that was a bit weird alright but i doubt it really had anythin to do with it. Does anybody know what they won? and actually what basis they won on?

barryfitz

Oh yeah, I just went to the application form again and see that they do ask for your occupation. Fair enough. Nope dont know what they won, but I think they get to compete at another level. Which colour team were you in C_Breeze?

Triangle

argggg must crush the rising jealousy......


Sounds like it was a excellent day - would have loved to been invited.

grats to all who went.

C_Breeze

That would be great getting to compete again! I wonder what the final prize will be as they were making it out to be something big anyway.

I was on the Blue team, which happened to have the based laid out schedule i think! What about you?


Triangle: did you enter the competition online?

barryfitz

White team FTW. Although I dont know what the win was

Triangle

C_Breeze wrote: »

Triangle: did you enter the competition online?

Yeah - only applied on Wednesday, knew it was too late but thought i may as well anyways. Even tried to pull a few strings

Anyways, maybe they'll have it on again sometime if it was a huge success!!

C_Breeze

fletch wrote: »

Edit 2 - Oh and to the Leon Cupra driver who hogged the middle lane on the N7 from the Kingswood Interchange to Naas, what the hell were you thinking!!!??? I am guessing that you are not on boards as I'm sure you should know better. Anyway if you are, care to explain your actions??

Dont worry he was parked beside me ... i let the air out of his tyres before i left