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Yodel – I know where they got their name from
One of the fastest growing business sectors in the last few years is cardboard boxes. All this online shopping we do needs a lot of cardboard boxes for deliveries. Another sector that has exploded in recent years is the courier and delivery services that carry all those cardboard boxes. Some of these services are certainly…
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How do you take corners faster in a kart?
It’s easy to go fast in a straight line in a go kart. Whether you are driving a Honda powered Cadet kart or a 26bhp Dmax kart, you just put your foot down and accelerate – but the key to a fast lap time is always about the corners. The biggest mis-conception about cornering quickly…
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F1 2014 is Go!
Most of the team at Daytona are, or have been, avid F1 fans. There are one or two individuals in the office (who will remain nameless) who do not “get” Formula 1 but pretty much everyone else is a fan, although maybe not as bothered by it all recently. It is very noticeable just how…
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The Recession Is Dead : Long Live Team-Building!
Daytona has always enjoyed strong demand from corporate entertainment organisers. Ever since we opened our first circuit in London in 1990, we have entertained tens of thousands of corporate event guests each year. But in 2008, when the credit crunch bit, we saw a large reduction in corporate entertainment events demand – which has taken…
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Daytona’s New Year Revolutions
In a recent Facebook Competition we asked fans to guess how many laps we had recorded in 2013. Lots of people entered their guesses – and we do mean guesses as they ranged from 20,000 to 20,000,000. The correct answer was 3,121,615 and a fan by the name of Simon won the prize of a…
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Too few people for your own Daytona event?
At this time of the year, we focus on providing great corporate events just before Christmas. Although our venues can cope with large groups – 450 is the biggest yet – we also get a lot of demand around this time of the year for small groups. Sometimes a manager needs to entertain/reward a couple…
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Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow…
As the Northern Hemisphere heads into Winter, the Daily and Sunday Express have some shocking news for us all. Apparently it may get colder and it may snow. I am not an Express reader myself, I don’t think I fit their target audience. According to four different front page stories they have published over the…
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Keep Calm and Carry On Team Building
It’s official! Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, says the UK’s economic recovery has “taken hold”. The Bank’s quarterly inflation report raised the forecast for the UK’s economic growth this year and next. As a business that provides corporate entertainment and team building events at our venues in Surrey, Milton Keynes and…
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Fake Reviews – Watch Out
We have 100,000 karting customers per year at the Daytona venues. Our aim is to always deliver what we promise and, if possible, exceed our customers’ expectations. We believe that we get it right most of the time. If we don’t then we expect our customers to tell us and give us a chance to…
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Racing under floodlights
F1 heads to Singapore this weekend for their annual night race. 22 Drivers racing at speeds of up to 200mph under floodlights through the evening. During the event, 108,423 metres of power cables, 240 steel pylons and around 1,600 light projectors with a total power requirement of 3,180,000 watts will be used just to light…