GTI Festival

Run What Ya Brung

VAG Vehicles Only

The drag strip will be open for you to take your own car down the track with timing data at ETSlips!

Signing on for RWYB is now online. You will still need to visit the Sign On Office to show your driving licence and your race voucher e-ticket before hitting the track. Please note an Admission ticket is required in addition to your RWYB Race Voucher.

Sign-on costs £45 for the day with unlimited runs. More info on the RWYB page.

RWYB Competition

Awards on the track include quickest VW, Audi, SEAT and Skoda, as well as a number of awards based on engine sizes. At Santa Pod, you are driving on a superb purpose built surface, and using world record standard calibrated timing. The Santa Pod marshalls and safety teams are the most practiced and efficient staff in Europe. Basically, you are getting the absolute best available when you sprint at the GTI Festival!

Classes:

• Class A (Under 1600cc)
• Class B (1601-1800cc)
• Class C (1801cc-2000cc)
• Class D (2001cc and above)
• Class E (Aircooled Vehicles)

Show & Shine

The GTI Festival Show & Shine has a massive number of awards including Best Engineering, Best Paint, Best Engine and many more. There are also 'top twenty' trophies open to all marques. Don’t forget, the GTI Festival is for all VAG vehicles equally. So if you are the proud owner of something special, bring it round to the Show Paddock and park up. Its free to enter and there’s no need to pre-register, just sign up on the day.

Trophies:

• Best of Show
• Best Engineering
• Best Engine
• Best Exterior
• Best Interior
• Best Skoda
• Best Audi
• Best SEAT
• Best VW
• Top 3 Girlz n Dubs

Traders

Along with SPRINGfest, the GTI Festival is planned to be the very best one day show of its kind, and every effort is made to bring you a good selection of appropriate traders. Any companies using promotion staff / models are especially welcome, and we can arrange for multi show winning cars to visit your stand for public 'photoshoots'.

Autojumble

The GTI Festival Autojumble is - unlike many shows - absolutely free to show visitors wishing to sell their (private, not trade) VAG bits. All you need do is locate the huge autojumble area, and set out your wares. Spaces are on a first come, first served basis, until the entire area is full. And as it is now becoming difficult to locate certain parts for older watercooled models, it's well worth visiting to browse or buy, even if you are not planning to be selling at the show. Traders should book a trade plot.

Girlz N Dubz

Girlz N Dubz features the hottest cars and the coolest owners! Girlz N Dubs kicked off at the ‘VAGfest’ GTi Festival in July 2010, and was an immediate success. It’s worth noting straight away that all cars entered into the Girlz N Dubz competition are automatically included in the main Show & Shine, and will be judged alongside the regular Show & Shine, in addition to being considered for the many Girlz N Dubz trophies. We expect the Girlz N Dubz display to grow and grow, and after a good start last year, we are confident that the competition will be strong and the number of contestants will grow each year.

GTI Festival also features a special Girlz N Dubs 'Wildest Ride' award to the quickest female on the dragstrip during the event. The Girlz N Dubs 'Wildest Ride' trophy will be contested between all girlz, (whether or not they also have a show car in the Girlz N Dubz contest.) Normal signing on fees apply.

Dizzy Rascals

And they said drag racers don't do bends. Introduced in 2010, and free to take part, is the totally insane ‘Dizzy Rascals’ course. A course which is a combination of ‘double roundabouts, straights and chicanes, and which was such a runaway success last July. It was all a bit bonkers, a bit ‘anarchic’, but lots of fun for contestants and spectators alike. The course is very suited to short wheelbase front wheel cars, but 2010 saw everything from Lupos to Transporters having a go at driving the day’s fastest lap, for which a trophy was awarded. There was a constant line of participants, the squeal of tyres, and the crowded spectator area. One car on the track at a time, against the clock, with awards for the fastest boyz and girlz! It’s a completely untried combination of sprint and autotest, it’s free, and you just have to give it a go!

Club Displays

The GTI Festival is a show where all VAG vehicles are welcome with open arms. All clubs are invited to display during the day; the clubs area is now able to accommodate in excess of the 40 clubs who regularly attend the event. If you want your club to be part of the show, you need to act fast. The earliest club bookings get pride of place, and we expect to see a huge number of clubs and registers represented, so please get in early!

If you would like to book a club display area and you have a minimum of 10 cars, please Download a Club Booking form.

VWDRC Heads Up

Some of the quickest VAG Group cars will be competing in fierce heads-up competition in a new class organised by the VWDRC. You’ll see a wide variety of VAG cars from aircooled Beetles to the latest Golfs, and everything in-between. All cars must run 11.99 or quicker to qualify for eliminations, which promises an exciting day of heads-up racing!

Bars & Caterers

There are licensed bars and caterers on site selling food and drink. Cash machines are in the Shops but please be ready to pay for items on site from our catering units and Pod Shop with contactless card payment rather than cash. View Caterer details.