Ferrari Day … Thames Valley Air Ambulance

The weather wasn’t the best, but we decided brave the rain and head down to the Ferrari Day at Newbury Showground.  It was all in aid of a very worthy cause - raising some much needed funds for the Thames Valley Air Ambulance.  

Callum loved watching all the cars go ‘round the circuit, especially the really noisy ones :).

There was a fair bit for the kids to do – Callum loved the inflatable slide and also had a go on the ladybirds and the Hook a Duck.  Thankfully he didn’t win one of the large cuddly toys. 

We had one downpour of rain, but not heavy enough for the Ferraris’ to switch to their wet weather tyres.  The support this event gets from the Ferrari owners is incredible.  There must have been 125+ Ferraris there, all brought there at the owners expensive.  Several of them also offer to give people rides around the circuit to raise even more money.  They were up to the six-hundred rides when we left and hopeful of breaking the 800-rides mark. 

Luckily there wasn’t an emergency on the day so the Air ambulance was on hand for people to look at and the kids could sit in the pilots seat and pretend they were flying the helicopter.  From the outside, the helicopter looks pretty compact but when you look inside, it’s incredible that they can fit the injured party on a stretcher, the pilot, a paramedic or doctor plus two more passengers if needed.

There were also some classic cars there – Ray spotted his dream car from years gone by – an Alfa Romeo GTV.

Star of the show though, undoubtedly the Ferrari Enzo, worth about $1,000,000.  Everyone was crowding round and taking photos.  Just hope the field didn’t get too muddy and it could be driven home OK!!

Postscript: After we’d left for the day, one of the Ferrari’s taking passengers around the circuit had a bit of an accident … it hit a tree and burst into flames.  Thankfully, the driver and passenger both escaped unhurt, although sadly the same couldn’t be said about the Ferrari itself.  We left about fifteen minutes before all this happened … as we were leaving two fire engines arrived to join the “emergency service vehicle” display for people to look at.  They couldn’t have timed their arrival better!