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- joshmuggo
Hey guys,
Thought I would jump on here and give an insight into my experience at GT Academy International Race Camp. What an amazing experience it was! Rob Barff said to us at the start of the week "Money can't buy this s$&! you get to do!" And he was right. Something I will never forget.
Day 0:
First we had a meeting to be introduced to all of the Judges, Team Leaders and instructors who would be our 'family' for the next week. We were immediately fitted for our racing kit which we would receive later that day. After this we went a completed a medical assessment, this was a preliminary test for the MSA that we were all fit enough to obtain our racing licence should we need it later in the week for the final.
Then we were put through an initial fitness assessment in the NISMO lab where we had our first go on the BATAK machine and our bodies were scanned and results were produced which told us things from our weight, our hydration, our muscle mass to more in depth things like our visceral fat and body composition. Then we were taken outside to do some physical fitness tests.
Team Australia finished the day with a night track walk of the old Silverstone Circuit and the GP Main straight, until we were asked politely to get off the GP track from security!
Day 1:
We were up at 5am to head to the Silverstone Rally course for our first Challenge, Mud Mayhem. We knew this was coming as we had seen it the previous day in our travels. It was a team event and the time stopped when all members of your team were across the line.
When the flash bang went off, we went full tilt into the course to try and get an early lead. I figured out that a few of the obstacles you would need to line up for and slow down, so if we got to the front early, we could get through them quickly and build a lead. We managed to do this and never looked back. We were the strongest team there physically and we cruised through the course and finished with a big lead.
I knew from the start that no matter what happened, they would make us go again. And sure enough, that wasn't good enough so off we went again. Everything played out the same as the last run, we got to the lead early and pulled away. Our second run was only 20 seconds slower than our first run which impressed all the judges and GTA staff.
The Course consisted off; 6ft high wall, barbed wire trench crawl, big ball shuttle run, run through fire, rope pull through deep water, electric shock crawl (THAT SUCKED!!), mud run to a water crawl under a net, steep hill climb to a slippery slide, another mud run through deep mud and water, net climb into an ice bath and then a greasy rope wall.
After lunch we got into some driving which started with Advanced Car Control in a Caterham doing some motorkhana. Then we received some driver training in NISMO 370Z's and Nissan GTR's on the Stowe Circuit.
That night we were all taken down to London where we filmed the intro for the TV show. This was on a boat on the Thames which was awesome. London Eye, Big Ben, Tower Bridge and many others sights.
We got back to the snoozebox at 1:30am. Massive day!
Thought I would jump on here and give an insight into my experience at GT Academy International Race Camp. What an amazing experience it was! Rob Barff said to us at the start of the week "Money can't buy this s$&! you get to do!" And he was right. Something I will never forget.
Day 0:
First we had a meeting to be introduced to all of the Judges, Team Leaders and instructors who would be our 'family' for the next week. We were immediately fitted for our racing kit which we would receive later that day. After this we went a completed a medical assessment, this was a preliminary test for the MSA that we were all fit enough to obtain our racing licence should we need it later in the week for the final.
Then we were put through an initial fitness assessment in the NISMO lab where we had our first go on the BATAK machine and our bodies were scanned and results were produced which told us things from our weight, our hydration, our muscle mass to more in depth things like our visceral fat and body composition. Then we were taken outside to do some physical fitness tests.
Team Australia finished the day with a night track walk of the old Silverstone Circuit and the GP Main straight, until we were asked politely to get off the GP track from security!
Day 1:
We were up at 5am to head to the Silverstone Rally course for our first Challenge, Mud Mayhem. We knew this was coming as we had seen it the previous day in our travels. It was a team event and the time stopped when all members of your team were across the line.
When the flash bang went off, we went full tilt into the course to try and get an early lead. I figured out that a few of the obstacles you would need to line up for and slow down, so if we got to the front early, we could get through them quickly and build a lead. We managed to do this and never looked back. We were the strongest team there physically and we cruised through the course and finished with a big lead.
I knew from the start that no matter what happened, they would make us go again. And sure enough, that wasn't good enough so off we went again. Everything played out the same as the last run, we got to the lead early and pulled away. Our second run was only 20 seconds slower than our first run which impressed all the judges and GTA staff.
The Course consisted off; 6ft high wall, barbed wire trench crawl, big ball shuttle run, run through fire, rope pull through deep water, electric shock crawl (THAT SUCKED!!), mud run to a water crawl under a net, steep hill climb to a slippery slide, another mud run through deep mud and water, net climb into an ice bath and then a greasy rope wall.
After lunch we got into some driving which started with Advanced Car Control in a Caterham doing some motorkhana. Then we received some driver training in NISMO 370Z's and Nissan GTR's on the Stowe Circuit.
That night we were all taken down to London where we filmed the intro for the TV show. This was on a boat on the Thames which was awesome. London Eye, Big Ben, Tower Bridge and many others sights.
We got back to the snoozebox at 1:30am. Massive day!
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