The Moat Challenge and Boat Challenge
I must admit, I did enjoy the moat challenge. However, my hair doesn't quite look like it, does it? I came here today looking particularly stylish, having combed my locks and applied just the right amount of product to give myself a smart appearance for Hendy. Alas, after navigating the challenging obstacle course, my hair was left looking rather damp and disheveled - a testament to the difficulties I faced. I must have gotten some soap or water in my hair, as it now has a few stray strands sticking out in all directions. Despite this, I'm proud of how I managed to stay clean and tidy, even in the face of adversity.
As I was getting ready for the day's activities, I couldn't help but notice James' Hawaiian shirt. He thought it looked rather nice, and I have to agree - it's a great piece of clothing. In fact, he reminded me of Magnum PI from the classic TV show, which was quite fitting given the relaxed, surfer vibe that seemed to be emanating from him as we chatted before the event began.
Now, let's talk about the slalom challenge. As I'm commentating on this event, I can tell you that it's going to be a real thrill ride for Tiff and James as they take to the track in Hendy's modified Ford Fiesta. They'll be racing against the clock in their high-performance vehicle, which should provide plenty of excitement and tension as they navigate the twists and turns of the course.
I must admit, I was a bit worried about my own performance in this event. As someone who's always been keen on driving, I felt like I had to do well if I was going to live up to expectations. However, I'm also aware that Tiff and James have been practicing for weeks, so it's not like they're going to be easily beaten.
As we made our way around the track, I got to take a look at some of the other cars on display. One particular model caught my eye - a Lotus Evora 400, which is apparently capable of reaching speeds of over 180mph in just under three seconds. The car itself looks stunning, with its sleek design and aerodynamic features that seem to have been carefully crafted to reduce drag and increase performance.
I also had the chance to take a closer look at some of the other vehicles on display, including a Defender 75th Anniversary Edition model that had been parked nearby. It was a beautiful piece of machinery, and I couldn't help but feel a sense of pride as I gazed upon it. The fact that it's such an iconic vehicle only added to its appeal.
As I continued my tour of the event, I stumbled upon a few other interesting pieces on display - including a Honda Civic Type R model from the Japanese market. This little car may have had only three cylinders under the bonnet, but it was clear that it was something special. Its compact size and lightweight design made it seem like a real performer on the road.
Now that we're all back at the start line, it's time to see how the drivers will fare in this slalom challenge. With the cars revving their engines and the sound of burnouts echoing through the air, it's clear that things are about to get exciting. I'm just glad that I got to be a part of it all - as a brand ambassador for Hendy, it's always a pleasure to represent the company in such a positive way.
All in all, it's been an incredible day here at the event. With over 5,000 people in attendance and countless cars on display, it's clear that this is something special. I've not had the chance to take a complete tour of everything, but even just getting a glimpse of some of the vehicles on offer has left me feeling inspired.
As we head out for the day and make our way back home, I couldn't help but feel grateful for the experience. It's been an absolute privilege to be part of this event, and I'm already looking forward to seeing what next year brings. Until then, I'll just have to keep my eyes peeled for some of these incredible vehicles and enjoy every moment of driving them.
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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey guys and welcome to petroped Welcome to the handy performance day here at Thruxton 2023 I've got a whole bunch of ridiculous things that I'm doing today but we're going to start off with a slalom race a Mini Moke a bucket of water and Tiffany Dell or can possibly go wrong so what are we up to then so at the moment I've got Tiff in the makeup they're laying out the slalom course we're going to be joined by Paul Swift and James who's a proper professional racing driver so let's face it three racing drivers and a wannabe me and we're gonna pair up and we're basically gonna have a bowl of water in the passengers lap we're gonna go through this slalom course in the Moke come back swap over swap the bowl of water over and then basically it's something to do with who stays the driest but I have a feeling it's going to be who gets the wettest it should be fun and I've been paired with Tiff the legend so we're about to start James Paul Tiff slaloming minniem Oaks what can possibly go wrong Hawaiian shirt should do are we ready for this uh I'm a bit nervous now because apparently Tiff's gonna be sitting with me so I always swapped over ladies and gentlemen good afternoon welcome to Kennedy's petition lucky I'm not with Paul Smith he is trying that all the times together and then the fastest times win there is this because we'll have on his lap SE in this ridiculously beautiful shirts those are being changed you get another two second penalty I mean accumulation time to drive you lose now we've never done this before it's very stupid ideas and they decided we should do this um and I will bravely go first yay pictures right Tiff's just doing the intro to the crowd we've done a practice run I'm driving we'll go through the slalom and then we'll swap over here because water involved yeah now the name is the legend himself inside this is a bad idea this is a very bad idea that's full enough oh dear you are a very smooth driver oh yeah okay yeah Born Ready I said Drive smoothly I said Drive smoothly two one that's good that's good that's good that's good that's good oh that's good he's smooth he's smooth I'm smooth baby should I go you gotta turn around now hello is there Army shots away no you're gonna break more gently all right ready here we go you've got a bit quicker now because we've lost something so fast I said a bit faster steering wheel's a bit wet yeah no no slow her down how many times around that three three one more one more one more no it's your turn it's not bad it's not bad are you ready get wet in the line how many more is that it how many more years we got the rear we've got the radio away foreign ah we ready yeah okay ready get that clutch go on son OS good morning anybody want to buy you smoke oops how much water we got left off and it costs a lot of money oh yeah the icy driver I'm gonna win anyway okay yo keep going keep going now go go go go go go forwards left right stay away from the wall okay I'm going left 360. come on that's half a one half of one by the wall oh two we're gonna fall out come on and then in the Box come on stop oh you swag ger now nobody told me this was a wet t-shirt competition oh my God but um having a go which is all Beyond YouTube see you there thank you very much safe to say I am very very wet I think Tiff and I decided we weren't going to win so we just threw the bucket of water over each other uh what a giggle now I'm now gonna quickly go and get changed luckily I was given a heads up I was going to get wet because I'm going to be on stage uh introducing Paul hendy who is the chief guy at Handy and then I'm going to do a q a with actually with the guys who've just been in um in the mokes with so that should be good so I need to go and get changed now because I'm soaking good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to the handy performance day here at Thruxton an amazing turnout of cars and people and weather so Paul welcome hello thank you welcome everybody thank you Peter for doing this again for us we had a we had a fun time on stage last year so I'm sure we'll do the same and we look forward to James joining us shortly as well as your partner in crime just recently yeah I don't know how many of you saw the milk race that we've just done with the buckets of water um last thing just for me as I said as part of the the brand ambassadorship I get a long term and my new long term that I only collected on Wednesday if anyone's interested is parked over by the Land Rover stand it's the 75th Anniversary Defender 90. and if you think you're getting it back no chance well we might want it back at some stage but uh enjoy it I know you've had some great cars and we really appreciate uh what you do for us it's two-way and thank you Peter we do genuinely appreciate it that's great now um I think I can see uh next two guests kind of just to the right of the stage over there and so I'd like to welcome onto the stage uh looks like first up a very familiar face here at Thruxton come on to Mr Tiffany Dell and James Headley uh GB3 driver um welcome them to Stage big round of applause please for James and Tiff we've all dried out now James we're all dry now after our Moke challenge so um Tiff we'll start with you um did you enjoy the moat challenge does my hair look like I enjoyed the boat challenge I came here beautified in my new clean church with my hair perfectly combed this morning but I put a bit of product in today just to look smart for hendy and now look at my hair soaps soaked after you had a specks did you see my Hawaiian shirt I thought my shirt was rather nice so James and I were talking before we started he looked a bit like Magnum PI from you know so that was all fun on stage um we're now off to do a slalom challenge I'm commentating so Tiff and James and Paul Swift are going to be doing their driving and uh in hendy's HP 250 in their modified Ford Fiesta which should be fun and it's yeah I'm doing the especially if I put this camera in his face while he's preparing look he's now gonna do let's see how far so this is heavy performances HP 250. lovely Little Fiesta ST originally Wicked rap this is how serious Swifty takes he's putting his race boots on I got no more shoes left over here that's the one thing I forgot these have got water slushing around in them basically in hindsight I should have worn the flip-flops yeah the earlier one but yeah yeah great race boots and shorts It's a strong look I was look wrongly um led to believe it was a driving challenge yeah no this one we expect great things from me you gotta beat Tiff I'll do my best you and James even if you don't on paper you will briefly take you around some of the cars the highlights the one car I want to show you is just over here I went to the launch of the lotus Electra but I'm gonna just quickly walk you around this because I just think this in this particular color and this is the higher performance one nor the 60 in under three seconds this car it's an absolutely stunning thing these wheels just look at those with the carbon Aero blades big carbon Ceramics underneath the wheel just a beautiful thing and you can see all of the you know you've got the vents coming in here for the airflow airflow management around this car is a work of art but it's the first one of these I've seen out in the wild and I have to say it looks Wicked really really cool now I've come along today in the new car in the defender 75th Anniversary Edition and it was like oh where can I park at this prominent and looks cool well I thought I'd park it with the Land Rover guys so it's parked there private place in front of the Land Rover experience in fact over there there's a whole bunch of different Land Rovers going over some off-road obstacles and that's one of the really cool things about today it's free to enter to come in as a member of the public there's so many cars on display but there's lots of experiences that you can do as well you can have a go off-road in a in a Land Rover that's driving experiences for the youngsters it's just a wicked wicked place but yeah it explodes um we've got she's got a new name now as well so uh debated um on what to call I know it's only a long term and she will be going back but from now on she's going to be called Daisy Daisy the defender but she's looking very very cool parked next to all the other Land Rovers yes very smart now then a very quick word to Honda please bring these into the UK these are Japanese Market specific just a wicked little cake look at it look inside I've only got a little three three cylinder engine but it's just absolutely Mega little thing look at that it's tiny it looks Ace and it's probably awesome fun to drive yep I want one of those so it is now people are starting to leave revving cars and doing massive burnouts it's been a brilliant day here today it's always a real privilege to be part of the Hindi family really and being a brand ambassador for me is something that I'm very very proud of so when you come here and you see the response the amount of people over five thousand uh cars here today unbelievable turnout of people um I've not I've seen a fraction of it because I've been doing stuff on the stage and doing stuff on the track I've not really had the time to have a good walk around but it's quite hot it's getting sort of towards the middle of the afternoon and I think we're gonna head home but it's been brilliant absolutely brilliant so yeah anyway I hope you enjoyed that if you did give me a thumbs up comments below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to petrified for plenty more content to come and I'll see on the next film take care guys drive safe foreignhey guys and welcome to petroped Welcome to the handy performance day here at Thruxton 2023 I've got a whole bunch of ridiculous things that I'm doing today but we're going to start off with a slalom race a Mini Moke a bucket of water and Tiffany Dell or can possibly go wrong so what are we up to then so at the moment I've got Tiff in the makeup they're laying out the slalom course we're going to be joined by Paul Swift and James who's a proper professional racing driver so let's face it three racing drivers and a wannabe me and we're gonna pair up and we're basically gonna have a bowl of water in the passengers lap we're gonna go through this slalom course in the Moke come back swap over swap the bowl of water over and then basically it's something to do with who stays the driest but I have a feeling it's going to be who gets the wettest it should be fun and I've been paired with Tiff the legend so we're about to start James Paul Tiff slaloming minniem Oaks what can possibly go wrong Hawaiian shirt should do are we ready for this uh I'm a bit nervous now because apparently Tiff's gonna be sitting with me so I always swapped over ladies and gentlemen good afternoon welcome to Kennedy's petition lucky I'm not with Paul Smith he is trying that all the times together and then the fastest times win there is this because we'll have on his lap SE in this ridiculously beautiful shirts those are being changed you get another two second penalty I mean accumulation time to drive you lose now we've never done this before it's very stupid ideas and they decided we should do this um and I will bravely go first yay pictures right Tiff's just doing the intro to the crowd we've done a practice run I'm driving we'll go through the slalom and then we'll swap over here because water involved yeah now the name is the legend himself inside this is a bad idea this is a very bad idea that's full enough oh dear you are a very smooth driver oh yeah okay yeah Born Ready I said Drive smoothly I said Drive smoothly two one that's good that's good that's good that's good that's good oh that's good he's smooth he's smooth I'm smooth baby should I go you gotta turn around now hello is there Army shots away no you're gonna break more gently all right ready here we go you've got a bit quicker now because we've lost something so fast I said a bit faster steering wheel's a bit wet yeah no no slow her down how many times around that three three one more one more one more no it's your turn it's not bad it's not bad are you ready get wet in the line how many more is that it how many more years we got the rear we've got the radio away foreign ah we ready yeah okay ready get that clutch go on son OS good morning anybody want to buy you smoke oops how much water we got left off and it costs a lot of money oh yeah the icy driver I'm gonna win anyway okay yo keep going keep going now go go go go go go forwards left right stay away from the wall okay I'm going left 360. come on that's half a one half of one by the wall oh two we're gonna fall out come on and then in the Box come on stop oh you swag ger now nobody told me this was a wet t-shirt competition oh my God but um having a go which is all Beyond YouTube see you there thank you very much safe to say I am very very wet I think Tiff and I decided we weren't going to win so we just threw the bucket of water over each other uh what a giggle now I'm now gonna quickly go and get changed luckily I was given a heads up I was going to get wet because I'm going to be on stage uh introducing Paul hendy who is the chief guy at Handy and then I'm going to do a q a with actually with the guys who've just been in um in the mokes with so that should be good so I need to go and get changed now because I'm soaking good afternoon ladies and gentlemen welcome to the handy performance day here at Thruxton an amazing turnout of cars and people and weather so Paul welcome hello thank you welcome everybody thank you Peter for doing this again for us we had a we had a fun time on stage last year so I'm sure we'll do the same and we look forward to James joining us shortly as well as your partner in crime just recently yeah I don't know how many of you saw the milk race that we've just done with the buckets of water um last thing just for me as I said as part of the the brand ambassadorship I get a long term and my new long term that I only collected on Wednesday if anyone's interested is parked over by the Land Rover stand it's the 75th Anniversary Defender 90. and if you think you're getting it back no chance well we might want it back at some stage but uh enjoy it I know you've had some great cars and we really appreciate uh what you do for us it's two-way and thank you Peter we do genuinely appreciate it that's great now um I think I can see uh next two guests kind of just to the right of the stage over there and so I'd like to welcome onto the stage uh looks like first up a very familiar face here at Thruxton come on to Mr Tiffany Dell and James Headley uh GB3 driver um welcome them to Stage big round of applause please for James and Tiff we've all dried out now James we're all dry now after our Moke challenge so um Tiff we'll start with you um did you enjoy the moat challenge does my hair look like I enjoyed the boat challenge I came here beautified in my new clean church with my hair perfectly combed this morning but I put a bit of product in today just to look smart for hendy and now look at my hair soaps soaked after you had a specks did you see my Hawaiian shirt I thought my shirt was rather nice so James and I were talking before we started he looked a bit like Magnum PI from you know so that was all fun on stage um we're now off to do a slalom challenge I'm commentating so Tiff and James and Paul Swift are going to be doing their driving and uh in hendy's HP 250 in their modified Ford Fiesta which should be fun and it's yeah I'm doing the especially if I put this camera in his face while he's preparing look he's now gonna do let's see how far so this is heavy performances HP 250. lovely Little Fiesta ST originally Wicked rap this is how serious Swifty takes he's putting his race boots on I got no more shoes left over here that's the one thing I forgot these have got water slushing around in them basically in hindsight I should have worn the flip-flops yeah the earlier one but yeah yeah great race boots and shorts It's a strong look I was look wrongly um led to believe it was a driving challenge yeah no this one we expect great things from me you gotta beat Tiff I'll do my best you and James even if you don't on paper you will briefly take you around some of the cars the highlights the one car I want to show you is just over here I went to the launch of the lotus Electra but I'm gonna just quickly walk you around this because I just think this in this particular color and this is the higher performance one nor the 60 in under three seconds this car it's an absolutely stunning thing these wheels just look at those with the carbon Aero blades big carbon Ceramics underneath the wheel just a beautiful thing and you can see all of the you know you've got the vents coming in here for the airflow airflow management around this car is a work of art but it's the first one of these I've seen out in the wild and I have to say it looks Wicked really really cool now I've come along today in the new car in the defender 75th Anniversary Edition and it was like oh where can I park at this prominent and looks cool well I thought I'd park it with the Land Rover guys so it's parked there private place in front of the Land Rover experience in fact over there there's a whole bunch of different Land Rovers going over some off-road obstacles and that's one of the really cool things about today it's free to enter to come in as a member of the public there's so many cars on display but there's lots of experiences that you can do as well you can have a go off-road in a in a Land Rover that's driving experiences for the youngsters it's just a wicked wicked place but yeah it explodes um we've got she's got a new name now as well so uh debated um on what to call I know it's only a long term and she will be going back but from now on she's going to be called Daisy Daisy the defender but she's looking very very cool parked next to all the other Land Rovers yes very smart now then a very quick word to Honda please bring these into the UK these are Japanese Market specific just a wicked little cake look at it look inside I've only got a little three three cylinder engine but it's just absolutely Mega little thing look at that it's tiny it looks Ace and it's probably awesome fun to drive yep I want one of those so it is now people are starting to leave revving cars and doing massive burnouts it's been a brilliant day here today it's always a real privilege to be part of the Hindi family really and being a brand ambassador for me is something that I'm very very proud of so when you come here and you see the response the amount of people over five thousand uh cars here today unbelievable turnout of people um I've not I've seen a fraction of it because I've been doing stuff on the stage and doing stuff on the track I've not really had the time to have a good walk around but it's quite hot it's getting sort of towards the middle of the afternoon and I think we're gonna head home but it's been brilliant absolutely brilliant so yeah anyway I hope you enjoyed that if you did give me a thumbs up comments below are always welcome and if you haven't done so already please subscribe to petrified for plenty more content to come and I'll see on the next film take care guys drive safe foreign\n"