After 18 unforgettable years, production of the iconic R35 GT-R comes to a close. From its debut to its production’s conclusion, the GT-R has left an indelible mark on the automotive world, with approximately 48,000 sold worldwide and a legacy of championship-winning dominance on the track. Join us as we look back on nearly two decades of relentless innovation, Takumi craftsmanship, and driving passion. The R35 may be crossing the finish line, but its spirit lives on.
The shape of the weekend — checkpoint-by-checkpoint detail is covered in full below.
A Caterham Seven is a strange, brilliant thing — barely more than an engine and four wheels, and different again depending on what you point it at. On a circuit it’s about precision and confidence building lap by lap. Sideways, it’s about feel, and how much you trust the car when it stops going where you pointed it. And on a real regularity rally — the format actual club rallying is built on — it’s about patience and pace-judgement over raw speed, checkpoint to checkpoint.
Most weekends like this pick one of those and call it a taster. This one gives you all three, back to back, so you find out which kind of driving is actually yours — not just whether you liked being fast for an afternoon.
Coffee first, then the briefing — how the Caterham handles, what to expect from the circuit, and what “regularity” means before you hear the word again tomorrow and pretend you already knew. Collect your Seven, and the excuses run out.
A guided drive down through the Kent lanes, not the motorway — the first proper chance to feel what a Seven actually does on a real road. Brands Hatch itself hosted the British Grand Prix twelve times between 1964 and 1986, with Formula 1 legends from Jim Clark to Nigel Mansell winning here — it’s not just a track, it’s one of the circuits that shaped British motorsport.
Time on track in the Caterham first, building confidence lap by lap. Then out of the Seven and into a dedicated drift car with an instructor alongside — a proper, controlled introduction to what happens when the back end lets go on purpose.
The health suite to recover, then everyone gathers in the cinema room for a talk on kit cars — the history, the engineering, why a Seven still feels the way it does sixty years on — before dinner.
Back in a Caterham Seven, road book in hand. This is a regularity rally, not a race — the winner is whoever runs closest to the target pace between checkpoints, not whoever’s fastest. Precision over speed, from the first mile.
First stamp of the day, and the climb that made a national hero sweat on live television — the Zig Zag Road, tackled nine times by the men’s peloton in the London 2012 Olympic road race, has been compared to Alpe d’Huez for a reason. The hill takes its name from the ancient box trees still clinging to its southern face, and the view from the National Trust summit stretches for miles across the Weald — the same view that drew Jane Austen here two centuries before any Olympian did.
Through Denbies, England’s largest single-estate vineyard — 265 acres of vines rolling across the North Downs, stamp collected at the estate before the road climbs back into the hills.
A lunch stop as much as a checkpoint — one of Surrey’s quietest, prettiest corners, and a proper chance to compare notes with the rest of the field.
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Two nights at Beaverbrook, and nothing left for you to organise.
Turn up with a driving licence and nothing else — the Sevens, the circuit, the road book, and every stamp along the way are sorted before you arrive.
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