Japfest 2014 pics, reports and comments

[largie009]

Well i had a great day, good turnout. Can put some names to faces now!
so who's up for japfest 2!???;)

[ceejay]

Great day other then the endless queue! nice to meet people on hear and as largie said put names to face here is some pictures me and a friend took on our phones!
my favorite photos which was taken on my Galaxy S5!






From my friends

[DanT]

some lovely examples..saw a few nice ones at reading services..

unfortunately japfest curse struck and i ended up in a 4 car accident and never made it much further than the services..

[DAN_REV1_TURBO]

Was a great day, nice to meet a few people and put faces to names, sorry if I didnt say hi to anyone I wasnt meaning to be ignorant! Just so much to get around and see etc I didnt get down to the IMOC setup until late. Really sorry to hear of your prang Dan thats bad luck.

[rowey200]

Nice to briefly meet a few of you

Weather was better than forecast so can't complain....and being on track (and overtaking) Clarkson, May & Hammond was a bonus

Car home in one piece and fun had, so happy days

[dexter]

Enjoyed the day a lot and weather was better than I expected! Sorry to see a banged up 2, gutting. Next stop brands hatch track day

[gon]

it was nice indeed :=)
sorry to hear about you accident .
I was the owner of the blue mk1

[Red Devil]

unfortunately japfest curse struck and i ended up in a 4 car accident and never made it much further than the services..

Sorry to hear about your misfortune. I'm guessing this was it. (not my pic btw)

[DAN_REV1_TURBO]

[Mullen]

We left Bristol at 6.15 & were parked on the stand by 7.15 no queue to speak of and the weather had lifted

For a while we thought the rest of you weren't going to make it...


Nice to meet a few peeps and put faces to names and cars, I appear to have missed a fair few judging by the pics while off watching the drifting & generally munting about.
Did see Dan_v_u shortly before he left sat on the show stand - glad to see you made it back in one piece after your marathon session.
Commiserations to the other Dan pranging his and never making it.
Looking forward to seeing what the Top Gear lot were up to in the next series.

[DAN_REV1_TURBO]

Nice to meet a few peeps and put faces to names and cars, I appear to have missed a fair few judging by the pics while off watching the drifting & generally munting about.
Did see Dan_v_u shortly before he left sat on the show stand - glad to see you made it back in one piece after your marathon session.
Commiserations to the other Dan pranging his and never making it.
Looking forward to seeing what the Top Gear lot were up to in the next series.

Yes was good to have a chat mate though brief! Thanks for taking the time to pop over and say hello. Must have been about 3pmish when I left though I had planned to stay until the end, I was flagging! So decided to call it a day.

There were some awesome machines there and the lists in the windows.. There was an Evo I was taking a look at and wouldn't have liked the bill for his shopping list!

Did the top gear boys go out on track then I take it? Think I either missed that or didn't realise who I was watching. Saw the drift kings stuff that was pretty impressive.

[JAAASH]

Really good day out, nice to meet a few of you Even with the 3 hour queue to get in and the 'on/off' weather all day.
Didn't manage to get on the rolling road in the end the marshals closed it down before the end because the wind was too strong for their marquee! Sat and waited for 1 and a half hours for it too so was a bit of a crappy end to the day.
Still enjoyed it though and will definitely be back for more

Got a few pictures from the day so will upload them sometime within the next couple of days.

[Donato]

How grim was that weather!?

I came over a couple of times to the stand, but i couldn't really see anyone. No one to say hi too


But i managed to snap some photos for you all!





































I did miss out on quite a bit of the show because of the weather which was a shame!

[Mullen]

Did the top gear boys go out on track then I take it? Think I either missed that or didn't realise who I was watching.

Yup they were out on the track, also on the dyno... looks like they were filming a section for the next series - I'm assuming it will be along the lines of, 'Japfest is the largest japanese cars show so we thought it would be hilarious to show up in non japanese cars to show them how to do it properly' or somesuch. There are a few vids up on youtube.

[ceejay]

weather was terrible! one minute is was sunny and you needed to take your coat off then 10 minutes later it would chuck it down! i was dreading getting out of the field but was not to bad other then catching my plastic under body cover coming of the well placed grid thing on the floor:L
great photos donato!

[Chris_9011]

I enjoyed the day, shame the weather couldn't make it's mind up what it was doing... I came over to the IMOC stand on a couple of occasions to say hello to a few people, but you must have all been off sheltering from the rain, enjoying the show or queueing for food...

Anyway's, I only took a few photo's as I mostly left the camera in the car to shield it away from the rain:

[SuperRedMR2]

It was a good day out! I'll post my pictures up when I get home.

Wasn't happy at all being stuck in a queue for 3-1/2 hours trying to get in!

Weather didn't wreck it either which was good.

Anyone see that accident where the wheel came off the drift car?

[DAN_REV1_TURBO]

Official Japfest Photo Gallery Part 1 here >>>

http://www.japfest.co.uk/2014/05/13/gallery-2014-pt-1/

[DAN_REV1_TURBO]

Official Japfest Gallery Part 2 here >>>

http://www.japfest.co.uk/2014/05/13/gallery-2014-pt-1/

[Mullen]

Official Japfest Gallery Part 2 here >>>

http://www.japfest.co.uk/2014/05/13/gallery-2014-pt-1/

http://www.japfest.co.uk/2014/05/14/gallery-2014-pt-2/

Fixed that for you