Did it yesterday. Arrived home late Easter Monday after 5 days walking the first 80 miles of the Southern Upland Way from Portpatrick, then headed south Tuesday evening aiming to miss rush hour through Bradford en route to the M62/M1.
I’m not familiar with the latter part of the route and both myself and the sat nav got lost due to the A5 closure improvements and a new road...made it from Settle to the Silverstone Travelodge in 4 hours.
Breakfast was served at the Porsche Experience Centre from 8AM, so a small fry up ( they don’t call it that) looked at several old and new vehicles in the Centre, met my ‘ instructor’ over brekkie and had a sociable chat. Out on track at 9AM driving a model identical to mine, which was the whole purpose of exploring its capabilities in different scenarios. I drove 100% of the time on various handling circuits, skid pans, etc etc and did about 20 full throttle starts on a short straight with emergency stop to see how close I could get to a pretend pedestrian crossing. A ten minute break then back out again until lunch at 12:30 before heading home early afternoon.
It helped being familiar with the car as being able to give it full beans in a controlled environment and 360 spins isn’t something I want to do on the public road. Or thrash my own car in that manner!
3 hrs 45 mins home, 199 miles door to door and 31mpg including stationary traffic on both M1 and M6 and making progress where possible. Sat Nav took me a different route home, M6 Toll which I haven’t used for years , leaving at Preston then A59 via Clitheroe.
Glad my co driver was only a few years younger than I as we had more of a rapport...very enjoyable experience but not sure I’d pay all that money for it as mine was free with the purchase of the car 18 months ago.
Thanks everyone for recommending I make the effort to attend
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