Halloween @ Mercedes World

You wouldn't really associate Halloween with Mercedes World, but we decided to have a day out at Mercedes World in Brooklands today as we had been promising Brandon we would take him for ages. They had a few Halloween activities on which were great for Holly, plus she got to wear a fancy dress for the day, "The Wicked Witch of Wickford". Strictly speaking we shouldn't have gone out today as Brandon is supposed to be self isolating, but I had only taken one day off this half term due to starting the new job last month and we had planned a day out for that one day.

All the kids got to have a go on the driving simulators with Joshua beating Brandon around the Imola track by about 4 seconds. Holly got to do a pumpkin search around the museum and also coloured a lovely witch night light. The boys also challenged me to a race on the giant scalextric track which turned out to be a mistake on their part - they lost to me by over 4 laps. Guess you can't beat experience.

Anyway we had a really good family day out and saw some absolutely beautiful cars that are all well out of our price range, still it is nice to dream.

Holly all dressed up as the "Wicked Witch of Wickford" for our day out.

Do Wicked Witches courtesy???

The first car we saw was Lewis Hamilton's Championship car from the 2020 Spanish GP in the new black livery for BLM.

Holly with Hamilton and Bottas.

The car is huge and the curves and detail are just stunning from every angle.

Got a spare £100k+ for an AMG GT3?

View from the 2nd floor looking down on a 2015 Mercedes F1 car.

Time to hit the simulators in the Little Racers section.

They had a simulator small enough for Holly which she thoroughly enjoyed.

I thought Witches rode broomsticks.

Brandon all set and ready to race Josh around Imola. He would love this set-up for his PS4 F1 racing game at home.

Amazingly Joshua beat Brandon by 4 seconds.

Joshua and Brandon head to head on the simulator.

My 3 mini racers.

Holly enjoyed colouring her Witch candle light ornament.

Whilst Holly finished this off, me and the boys hit the scalextric track.

A skeleton wearing a Mercedes mask.

The Mercedes Formula-E car is a stunning looking machine.

Far more futuristic looking than the Formula-1 cars.

Never mouth off challenging someone with experience!

I ended up beating the boys around this track by over 4 laps.

The formula 1 steering wheels always amaze me. To think they cost of £50k just for the wheel, that's more than my whole car!!!!

Probably one of the ugliest F1 cars - these noses were soooo bad.

One of the many hidden pumpkins which we found.

A small selection of Lewis Hamilton race memorabilia.

The 3 kiddies with an impressive display of a stripped down F1 car. And even better I didn't have to nag them to smile for the picture due to the masks!

Brandon has class as his favourite car of the day was the old Gulwing Mercedes.

They even had some of the earliest cars produced from the late 1800's.

We enjoyed watching the race cars on the track and the skid pan.

Proper petrol head day out.

Other than perhaps the old black and gold JPS race cars, this is arguably one of the prettiest F1 cars in my opinion. Love the chrome and red livery.