Q Didn't
this used to be called the "Holden Hot Laps" experience...?
A
Yes
it did...
For the last 7 years (up until the 1st January 2012) our Holden V8 Hot
Laps ride experiences were officially branded and traded as "Holden Hot Laps"
As and from the 1st January 2012, Holden NZ is no longer our principal naming
rights sponsor
(solely due to cutbacks within Holden NZ Marketing)
That having been said... in all respects, in reality, there are no practical
changes or differences in our ongoing operation what so ever... as Holden were
only ever a "naming rights sponsor" and they took absolutely no active role,
input or practical support of our Holden V8 Hot Lap activities at any stage.
As and from the 1st January 2012, we now trade as NZV8 Hot Laps
Apart from the change of trading name... absolutely nothing has changed:
- We still exclusively utilise the same 400kw 5700cc Holden V8
Hot Lap race cars that we have always used...
- We still exclusively utilise the same experienced
professional Holden V8 Hot Lap drivers that we have always used...
- We still exclusively utilise the same race venues, safety
equipment and other resources that we have always used...
- We are still exclusively owned and operated by Advanced
Driving Systems Limited, as we always have been...
- NZV8 Hot Laps will continue to honour any pre-paid vouchers
in accordance with our existing terms and conditions...
Q Will
you guys still honour my "Holden Hot Laps" voucher...?
A
Yes
we will...
As outlined above, practically nothing has changed... except
Holden is no longer our principal naming rights sponsor.
We will continue to honour any pre-existing pre-paid Holden Hot Lap vouchers...
so long as and provided that:
- The Holden Hot Laps directly issued gift vouchers have not
past their original expiry date...
- All of our standard operational terms & conditions are fully
complied with...
- Any "other gift vouchers" that have been previously
purchased and issued directly by any other "resellers" of Holden Hot Laps have
not past their original expiry date and that the reseller's issued vouchers are
still able to be physically validated with the reseller, in order for us to
subsequently receive payment for our services...
- In order to continue to utilise any reseller issued
vouchers, you must fully comply with all of the reseller's operational terms &
conditions, as well as also complying with all of our standard operational terms
& conditions...
Q Do
I have to pre-book to do the NZV8 Hot Laps experience...?
A
Yes
you do...
In order to
ensure that staff and vehicle resources are in place to professionally
conduct our Holden V8 Hot Lap ride sessions, it is essential that confirmed attendance
bookings are made and pre-paid in advance.
Also, so as to minimise the likelihood of any time delays for our V8 Hot Lap
participants, we provide you with an "indicative" NZV8 Hot Lap experience time.
Any failure on your part to physically attend at the required arrival time for
your pre-booked allocated time
will result in
the forfeiture of your V8 Hot Lap experience thru your non-attendance or
late arrival.
Q
Can
I purchase a Holden V8 Hot Laps Ride gift voucher for someone else...?
A Yes
you can...
A high percentage
of our NZV8 Hot Lap experiences are purchased as a gift for others...
NZV8 Hot Laps is the ultimate gift option that is extremely easy to organise and the
gift recipient is going to be thrilled and excited by the memorable experience.
Purchase it for your spouse or
partner...
(This
is the gift that gets them home still excited and appreciative!!!)
NZV8 Hot Laps is the ultimate
Christmas present that they will never forget...
(Ho,
Ho, NZV8 Hot Laps... Go Flat Out!!!)
Friends all chip in to get it for one
of your mates birthdays...
(Better
than everyone having to go shopping)
Absolutely ideal as a memorable
Father's Day gift...
(Thanks
for everything dad)
A unique gift for the person that
seemingly already has everything...
(They
won't have ever experienced any quite like this)
Workmates chip in and get it as an
unforgettable leaving gift...
("If
I had known about this before... I would have left years ago")
Purchased and used as a staff
incentive reward for sales targets achieved...
(Talk
about motivating the staff!!!)
Arranged as an incentive reward for
your most valued corporate clients...
(Something
they won't forget in a hurry)
As with every other professional organisation, our gift
vouchers and NZV8 Hot Lap attendances are all entirely conditional upon and
are covered by our standard operational terms and conditions, which are published on this website
Q Can
we do drive programs and/or Holden V8 Hot Laps for Conference activities etc...?
A Yes
we can...
We can
individually tailor and organise drive programs to complement and enhance your
company conference or group event.
We specialise in arranging and conducting unforgettable
Corporate Client Drive Day Events.
Dependent upon your individual requirements we can arrange everything
for you, including supply of additional participant drive vehicles, multiple
Holden V8 Hot Lap ride vehicles and drivers if required.
Visit our Corporate Drive Days page for further information and/or don't
hesitate to ring us directly so as we can organise and configure your next
"truly memorable" event for you.
Q Do
you supply participant safety equipment...?
A
Yes
we do...
NZV8
Hot Laps is an entirely professionally operated organisation that takes all practical steps to at all times ensure your personal safety, whilst maximising your
enjoyment.
We have an extensive range of safety helmets for our participants to utilise (size
XS to XXL)
NZV8 Hot Laps has an extensive selection of various sized racesuit
overalls for participants (XS to 5XL)
Our dedicated 400kw Holden V8 Hot Lap vehicles are exclusively fitted with
extra-wide RaceTech race seats and fully adjustable 4-point race harness, so as
to easily and safely accommodate virtually all sizes of passengers (large
& tall)
Q
What
about some of the "other" hot lap providers...?
A
Well...
It's
good that you asked...
As with most things in life, all things are not created
equal...
When looking at "Hot Laps" please make sure you are actually comparing apples with
apples.
Caution!!!
There have been numerous other various less
professional would-be Hot Lap providers
(Ford Racing Experience, Perkins/GT Radials & numerous other race teams and
operators)
that have all progressively closed up and gone
out of
business leaving their pre-paid
would be clients
and indebted suppliers very distressed and substantially out of pocket...
Be safe, Be sure and utilise New Zealand's only factory supported NZV8 Hot Laps
- Some other providers charge you more money for less laps...
- Then there
are some would be weekend warrior race drivers who will charge you money to take you in their old clapped out race cars for a spin...
(Literally)
- Also, there are some race drivers that try to do hot laps... but
only on about about 4 days in an entire year...
("Do you have any other dates at Manfeild in the next
9 months... Yeah Right")
- Then there are the ones that sell you 3 hot laps... but the
first part of the ride is warming up and the last part of the supposed 3 lap
ride is letting the car cool down... so in effect you only get 2 flying laps
("But I thought I had paid for 3 flying laps... Yeah
Right")
- Likewise, there are some that will take you for a ride in their "mildly worked road cars"
or "older model
racecars with spongy brakes" or they struggle to find enough fitting racesuits &
safety helmet protective equipment for everyone...
("She'll be right, it always makes that funny noise... Yeah Right")
- Then there are the ones that offer to
take you for "hot laps" in a flash road car that doesn't even have a roll cage or race
belts
("That sounds really safe and professional doesn't
it... Yeah
Right")
- Still "others" market and promote their old VT Commodore by the size
of its engine... but then the only track circuit that they actually exclusively hire is the small 1.5km hardly used
cheaper club training circuit out the back of the main Grand Prix race
track circuit where they are unable to even go fast.
("Hot Laps... Yeah Right... more like Not Laps")
("That
wasn't what I thought I was paying for...")
- Some "other" hot lap providers only
utilise mildly modified "look the part" road cars, which are even
still running the original "road car automatic transmissions" and 4
seats!!!
("Hot Laps in a race car... Yeah Right... How many race
cars have you seen with automatic transmissions", let alone having 4 seats)
("Yes please, pick me to be one of the two back seat passengers")
- There
are even some "other" hot lap providers who have given a number of their passengers the
truly unforgettable lifelong memory of being in vehicles that have been repeatedly launched off the
race track at high speeds by their drivers and smashed into concrete walls and Armco!
("Where do I
sign up for that type of ride... Yeah Right")
- Then there are the "other" hot lap providers who are
quite happy to have taken your money 9 - 12 mths ago, (or
longer) but still haven't managed to
actually get around to actually physically providing you with the actual hot laps yet, due to
ongoing repeated "car
problems" or non-disclosed lack of a car at all, or the fact that they only do a
very few days, if at all in an entire year anywhere in NZ, or that a lot of the
days that they list are false and made up dates that don't go ahead...
(Keep waiting...)
- Then there are the "other" hot lap providers who
will only utilise
one venue so as to save themselves money... while costing you lots of wasted
time and wasted money to have to travel to them
(Why would you agree to travel the length of the North Island at your expense to
go for a 3-lap ride in a dodgy old look alike VT Commodore...)
(formally Holden Hot Laps)
is totally different...
We are New Zealand's premier nationwide professional
Holden V8 Hot Lap providers.
Were not a struggling race team
taking people for a ride in a car with tired
tyres while trying to make some money to run their racecars...
NZV8 Hot Laps is a professionally operated
organisation that exclusively provides Holden V8 Hot Lap ride experiences for
Corporates,
company's and private individuals.
As part of the much larger Advanced Driving Systems nationwide
organisation, we are privileged to receive factory backing and logistical support
from Bridgestone New Zealand.
NZV8
Hot Laps owns and operates two specifically designed, extensively modified and enhanced
400kw 5700cc V8 Holden VZ Commodore race cars which are solely
dedicated and exclusively utilised as our V8 Hot Laps & V8 Race
Experience vehicles.
(Our vehicles are not mildly worked and
sign written look a
like road cars or old outdated clapped out race cars running on old tyres and
standard suspension, like some of the others still try
to get away with)
Our
dedicated 400kw Holden V8 Hot Lap vehicles are extensively equipped with full MSNZ
approved race roll cages, designer extra large RaceTech race seats, full race-belt
harnesses, modified race suspension, premium performance Bridgestone tyres and modified
premium race performance brake packages.
Only
suitably experienced specialist professional drivers who have been specifically
approved by Advanced Driving Systems are authorised to pilot our 400kw Holden
V8 Hot Lap vehicles.
Our exclusive V8 Hot Lap pilots have included 5 former National
Race Champions... including a multiple NZV8 Champion, the NZV8 (tier 2)
Champion, NZV8 Ute Champion, the multiple Pro7 NI Champion & 3 time National
Classic Champion and the BMW National Champion.
As
a totally professional commercial organisation, NZV8 Hot Laps is fully
committed to ensuring that our Hot Lap ride activities minimise your risk and maintain
your personal safety... whilst maximising your enjoyment and delivering a
truly
memorable Holden V8 Hot Lap ride experience.
Our entire operational activities have been fully audited and pre-approved by a
certified Dept of Labour O.S.H Inspector.
Q Does
it still proceed if it is wet...?
A Yes
it does...
Generally
speaking, rain will not adversely affect our V8 Hot Lap rides sessions and they
are generally conducted in whatever the normal prevailing weather conditions are
on the actual day... Wet and/or fine.
Unless
in the expert opinion of the very experienced NZV8 Hot Laps staff, that the prevailing weather and/or
track conditions have become too extreme and are unsuitable to safely continue.
In this respect, their considered expert decision regarding operational safety will be
binding, final and absolute.
The safety of our participants and our professional drivers is paramount and
will not be compromised for convenience.
We will take all practical and necessary steps to ensure that the NZV8 operated Hot Lap
sessions are at all times conducted safely and professionally.
NZV8
Hot Laps is exclusively factory backed and logistically supported by
Bridgestone New Zealand.
We therefore have the safety and assurance of only utilising premium Bridgestone
performance tyres that provide our Holden V8 race vehicles with the absolute
second to none optimum tyre adhesion in all conditions.
Bridgestone... "The 1st choice of motorsport
champions... and only choice of NZV8 Hot Laps"
Please ring (027) 2813385 or (027) 2813383 on the morning of
your pre-booked Holden Hot Lap session in order to re-confirm that our
Holden V8 Hot Laps session is still
proceeding and that there are no readily apparent or foreseeable weather or track issues.
Q What
else do we receive as part of the unique NZV8 Hot Laps experience...?
A Apart
from the absolute thrill and excitement of being the sole front seat passenger during
the unforgettable on-track 400kw Holden V8 Hot Laps ride session, all participants will also
subsequently receive:
An exclusive NZV8 Hot Laps participation
certificate...
An unforgettable experience and a huge smile from having gone "flat out" &
having "accelerated your life"
The opportunity to take as many photos etc
as you may wish of the cars, rides, drivers etc
The opportunity of ordering & purchasing an
exclusive NZV8 Hot Laps incar race footage DVD of your experience...
(ONLY available on some limited
occasions, and currently ONLY @ Pukekohe, exclusively thru Drivers Day)
Q Do
we get to drive your Holden V8 Hot Lap vehicles ourselves...?
A NO...
Not during the NZV8 Hot Laps ride session...
Given the
large amount of time, effort and money that has gone into creating the 400kw Holden V8 Hot Lap vehicles and also so as to ensure our participants personal safety, the
vehicles will only be driven by professional drivers specifically approved and
authorised by Advanced Driving Systems during the Holden V8 Hot Lap ride sessions.
During our NZV8 Hot Laps ride experience our vehicles will be being driven in an extreme manner, near the maximum limits of
tyre adhesion and therefore the personal physical driving
abilities of the specially selected and exclusively trained professional drivers needs to be of the absolute highest standard.
However...
we are able to provide the exclusive additional option of the Holden V8 Race
Drive Experience
Where you get to actually drive one of our extensively modified race prepared
400kw V8 Holden
Commodores on either the full 3km NZ Grand Prix Manfeild circuit / Pukekohe Park Raceway
/ Ruapuna Park / Teretonga Park, with one on one expert race driving tuition
from one of our specialist experienced V8 Race Experience Instructors.
(For more information on the Holden
V8 Race Drive Experience, visit:
www.holden-race-experience.co.nz
)
NZV8 Hot Laps and V8 Race Experiences are proudly conducted nationwide
by Advanced Driving Systems Limited
and is supported by Bridgestone NZ
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