Porsche Experience Silverstone
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Porsche Experience Silverstone
Well the day came last Tuesday the 2nd of August when I was invited to drive the new Cayenne diesel, ordered mine back in March.
For those that do not know of this experience is supplied within the cost of your new Vehicle by Porsche UK
I know that there is a lot of people who are against Porsche putting their badge on a SUV, Diesel etc, but for someone like myself, 3 kids, dog etc it’s the only way of myself getting into a Porsche and its my first Porsche.
So the day started with fine weather, set off from West London at 10.30ish nice drive down the M40 and into Silverstone, in my current X5 diesel (my 2nd X5)
Arrived at about 11.45am, was booked in for the afternoon session, took my 3 kids and the wife day out
Signed in, got a brief tour and got to sit in cars that where on display very nice too, shame no Cayenne in there though ☹!!!
Very well laid out with cars on display at ground level, stairs up to Restaurant level, which has glass running down one side overlooking Porsche’s track.
Got settled in, took a seat at a table, to be met by my Porsche driver for the day, Ben, who joined myself and the family for lunch, not bad lunch too, during lunch we where just chatting firing questions at each other, during this conversation I think Ben understood that I would be speccing Air Suspension on my order, and commented that he does not think the Cayenne we would be driving has Air, I was a little disappointed but at the end of lunch he remarked “be back in a bit”
Five mins. Later back with a smile on his face, managed to change Cayenne’s you will driving a car with Air, superb I thought. During the lunch Ben had asked what I would prefer to do and how I would be using the car.
So drivers brief, and out to cars, at this point Ben went through In detail what options where fitted to the car, answered all the questions I had and onto Handling Circuit, Circuit is setup as a twisty country Road, perfect I thought and started off very gingerly when Ben asked me to push on and running through braking points etc, I am no track day expert, however as the laps went by and being lapped by a few 911’s started to press on, I can only the describe the Cayenne as on rails, and I mean rails for anyone who has not driven a 2011 Cayenne, you must, beggars belief.
Back for a quick chat and asked if I would like to take it out on public Roads, why not I thought, let me tell you, you need to keep an eye on Speedo I was up to 70mph without realising, spend half an hour or so trying various Roads, trying different settings, I know a lot is written about various systems on modern cars which I never really took In, this experience helped me understand what these systems do and all I can say is wow, and the sport button really works.
Back to Silverstone experience centre for a cup of tea/ coffee brief chat and out on the Kick plate, basically the ground has a Hydraulic plate set flush into the road surface, this is designed to show what would happen if for any reason you got into a spin or slide, did this about 8 times varying speeds, superb is all I can say.
Did not want to try any of the other sections as they where of no interest, off road circuit and Ice hill.
Back out onto the Handling Circuit now with more confidence in the vehicle (all this within a few hours, and boy the car just seems to have endless amounts of grip, car was wearing 20” wheels, now 911’s, Caymans where not passing except a 911 Turbo, but amazing is the only way I can describe this experience.
As we got out the car, Ben asked me to feel the tyres, hot, soft and very sticky was the only way I could describe these, made me smile.
Good byes where said there, met with the kids and wife, and off home.
Drive home in my X5 was an experience as although on paper my X5 is suppose to be quicker and it really is not, forget the 0-60 times left that back in the early 90”s, it’s the 30 – 70 that the Cayenne Diesel excels.
Sum up highly enjoyable, informative, fun, and confidence inspiring on the car as well as the brand, thank you Ben & Porsche
Saj
For those that do not know of this experience is supplied within the cost of your new Vehicle by Porsche UK
I know that there is a lot of people who are against Porsche putting their badge on a SUV, Diesel etc, but for someone like myself, 3 kids, dog etc it’s the only way of myself getting into a Porsche and its my first Porsche.
So the day started with fine weather, set off from West London at 10.30ish nice drive down the M40 and into Silverstone, in my current X5 diesel (my 2nd X5)
Arrived at about 11.45am, was booked in for the afternoon session, took my 3 kids and the wife day out
Signed in, got a brief tour and got to sit in cars that where on display very nice too, shame no Cayenne in there though ☹!!!
Very well laid out with cars on display at ground level, stairs up to Restaurant level, which has glass running down one side overlooking Porsche’s track.
Got settled in, took a seat at a table, to be met by my Porsche driver for the day, Ben, who joined myself and the family for lunch, not bad lunch too, during lunch we where just chatting firing questions at each other, during this conversation I think Ben understood that I would be speccing Air Suspension on my order, and commented that he does not think the Cayenne we would be driving has Air, I was a little disappointed but at the end of lunch he remarked “be back in a bit”
Five mins. Later back with a smile on his face, managed to change Cayenne’s you will driving a car with Air, superb I thought. During the lunch Ben had asked what I would prefer to do and how I would be using the car.
So drivers brief, and out to cars, at this point Ben went through In detail what options where fitted to the car, answered all the questions I had and onto Handling Circuit, Circuit is setup as a twisty country Road, perfect I thought and started off very gingerly when Ben asked me to push on and running through braking points etc, I am no track day expert, however as the laps went by and being lapped by a few 911’s started to press on, I can only the describe the Cayenne as on rails, and I mean rails for anyone who has not driven a 2011 Cayenne, you must, beggars belief.
Back for a quick chat and asked if I would like to take it out on public Roads, why not I thought, let me tell you, you need to keep an eye on Speedo I was up to 70mph without realising, spend half an hour or so trying various Roads, trying different settings, I know a lot is written about various systems on modern cars which I never really took In, this experience helped me understand what these systems do and all I can say is wow, and the sport button really works.
Back to Silverstone experience centre for a cup of tea/ coffee brief chat and out on the Kick plate, basically the ground has a Hydraulic plate set flush into the road surface, this is designed to show what would happen if for any reason you got into a spin or slide, did this about 8 times varying speeds, superb is all I can say.
Did not want to try any of the other sections as they where of no interest, off road circuit and Ice hill.
Back out onto the Handling Circuit now with more confidence in the vehicle (all this within a few hours, and boy the car just seems to have endless amounts of grip, car was wearing 20” wheels, now 911’s, Caymans where not passing except a 911 Turbo, but amazing is the only way I can describe this experience.
As we got out the car, Ben asked me to feel the tyres, hot, soft and very sticky was the only way I could describe these, made me smile.
Good byes where said there, met with the kids and wife, and off home.
Drive home in my X5 was an experience as although on paper my X5 is suppose to be quicker and it really is not, forget the 0-60 times left that back in the early 90”s, it’s the 30 – 70 that the Cayenne Diesel excels.
Sum up highly enjoyable, informative, fun, and confidence inspiring on the car as well as the brand, thank you Ben & Porsche
Saj
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