Supercar drive day week 3 winner announced
June 16, 2009 by Paul Maric
As our competition winners start piling up, week 3’s winner was an easy one to choose. Week 3’s winner, Thomas De Nardis, had an entry which grabbed the attention of judges.
The winner of Week 3’s competition gets access to a full day behind the wheel of up to five Supercars, taking in both the aural and visual delights of their surroundings and teamed machinery.
The winning entry from CarAdvice reader Thomas De Nardis read as follows: “Being given the keys to the cars on offer by Octane for a day, would be the equivalent to Brad Pitt throwing me the keys to his beloved for 10 minutes.”
As with the rest of our winners, we’ll get back in touch with them to see what they thought of the once in a lifetime experience, courtesy of Octane Supercar Events that will be sure to earn them bragging rights for many years to come!
Congratulations Thomas and make sure you get entering into Week Four of the competition if you weren’t successfull with Week 3.
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I wouldnt need 10 minutes Thomas, would be happy with 2minutes ;-)
PS: well done mate…..happy for you
“Being given the keys to the cars on offer by Octane for a day, would be the equivalent to Brad Pitt throwing me the keys to his beloved for 10 minutes.”
Yeah except Billy Bob Thornton has beaten you to to the keys and left the rear tyres bald!
I must have a go at this competion!
great response mate!
But caradvice, wasn’t this comp meant to be in 25 words or less?
maybe make it clearer next time how many words you can use for this comp.
Nice One!
When i was at Uni a word count would not include words such as “a” and “the” or “to” as words… So his all good!
Yes well done.
If you notice the past winner used more than 25 words too……
Agree clarification is needed
Hi Caradvice,
Not to sound like I’ve just eaten the proverbial sour graps, BUT…
The competition says 25 words or less. I count this entry to be 31 and the week 2 winner was over 25 aswell. Only now I learn from a reader’s post that words like ‘the’ and ‘to’ don’t count. How should we know which words count and which words dont? And why didn’t you stipulate in the brief.
Also, the competition brief read as; “tell us why you believe you’re worthy of steering over $2-million worth of supercars in one day.” This week’s winner hasn’t mentioned why he’s worthy, just compared supercars with something unrelated.
I know I and presumably others scratched our heads and switched and swapped our words around until we had 25 that told you guys why we thought we were worthy of getting a go in the cars.
It would be nice if it was clearer as to what you guys are looking for. Obviously I take things too seriously.
-Luke.
Luke, your argument is fair enough.
It should have stated approximately 25 words or less.
Even if we were to re-draw the competition, none of the other entries which were under 26 words were worth drawing.
Either way, at 6 words over the word limit, it’s not worth crying over spilt milk.
His entry was most certainly creative and grabbed our attention, so well done Thomas!
No worries Paul. Thanks for the reply post.
Well done Thomas!