Jasons Car Blog

Found some scans of the Dubforce Thrash feature in PVW from 2004.

The feature took place at Bruntingthorpe proving grounds Leicestershire. The day was very wet and we had a nice array of charged VW’s. The most impressive of them all was of course AW Tracksports Dual charged (Superchared and Turbochaged) 1.8T 20V.

We were not on the track alone mind, we seen the boys from EVO magazine hooning along in a Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren. Lots of fun was being had in the SLR the sound of it at full chat was just like a WW2 spitfire flying by. They even got a bit too carried away while with the back end stepping out and them spinning off into the grass.

Anyway back to my experience, was the first time I had taken my Golf G60 (Edition One) on track and the conditions were very wet. It turned out the conditions being wet meant you could get you car in all sorts of shape through the corners having great fun, the run off was huge. While I was having fun round the track each car was equipped with professional GPS equipment for measuring performance.