Tuesday 16th June 2026, a day we'd been looking forward to with a good deal of excitement, was the Regtransfers team's fifth visit to the Supercar Driver Secret Meet. Having attended before we had some idea what we were in for. We also knew there would be some surprises.
We featured Supercar Driver (SCD) and its driving force, Adam Thorby, in issue 55 of our free magazine, The World of Personal Number Plates. If you're not familiar with SCD, please click the link and check out the article. We think it serves as a good introduction to an extraordinary brand.
A private party
The Supercar Driver Secret Meet is not open to the public. It is not an event to which ordinary mortals can just turn up and buy a ticket, or even prebook online. It has a reputation for being the UK’s most exclusive supercar event, a status much appreciated by the car owners and enthusiasts who attend. There are no dawdling crowds of people who just turned up to take a gander out of curiosity, or envy. Everyone at the Secret Meet is fully invested in the subject, and for good reason.
The Secret Meet is only open to members of Supercar Driver (and the brand's sponsors) and membership is only offered to supercar owners. In practical terms, that means that pretty much everyone present on the day already owns at least one supercar.
If there is a more exclusive event on the UK motoring calendar, we'd love to hear about it, but excuse us if we don't hold our breath.
A legendary venue
An event such as this demands an iconic setting. Silverstone, the home of the British Grand Prix is also generally regarded as the home of modern British motorsport in general. The name of the Northamptonshire racing circuit is known around the world, and it has seen motorsport history made on many occasions.
The Silverstone circuit was established in 1948 by the Royal Automobile Club (RAC) on the site of a wartime RAF airfield on the border of Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire. Its intended purpose was to host a grand prix that the RAC had decided to establish. The site has hosted races ever since, although the circuit has evolved somewhat from the repurposed aircraft runways that used to form much of it.
Silverstone has also been the home of Supercar Driver's Secret Meet since 2024.
Our fifth Secret Meet
This was the second year that Regtransfers has exhibited at the SCD Secret Meet with our own stand. As last year, it was very gratifying to meet the surprisingly large number of supercar enthusiasts who dropped by and identified themselves as previous and current Regtransfers customers, as well as those interested in finding their first private registration.
It seems that the supercar community in general shares our view that a nice car deserves a nice plate, and that a cherished registration makes the perfect finishing touch.
People keep saying 'Oh, you should open it up to the public; you'll make thousands' but it's not about that at all. It will always be private and invite-only."
This year, however, that invitation took a novel form. To celebrate SCD's third year at Silverstone (it was previously held at Donnington Park), and as a one-off mark of celebration, a strictly limited 100 tickets were made available to non-members. This has never happened before, and may never happen again.
Stand-out moments
There was so much to see on the day that we hardly know where to begin.
Starting with numbers: there were more than 500 supercars on display and over 150 hypercars. For those unfamiliar with the term "hypercar", it refers to the highest spec, highest performance models in existence. At an event such as the Secret Meet, hypercars can sometimes be recognised by their attendant crowds of speechless, open-mouthed onlookers.
Amongst the cars we drooled at and eagerly snapped photographs of were a red Ferrari Koenig Specials Testarossa (which we believe to be the only one of its kind in the UK), and a two-tone black and grey Rolls-Royce Phantom, both belonging to our friend and customer Nick Sahota. Nick is director of supercar servicing, repair and restoration specialist Exotic & Supercar Services, and Storage. He is also the owner of one of the UK's most impressive private number plate collections, as is demonstrated by the B34 UTY (Beauty) plate on his Testarossa and NCK 1 on his Phantom!
Other fine specimens were:
- the famous Ferrari 250 GTO belonging to drummer Nick Mason of Pink Floyd;
- A glorious, purple Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 hypercar;
- A black Ferrari 250 GT SWB displaying the number plate FER 250;
- A Pagani Huayra with a stunning purple and carbon fibre body finish;
- A Koenigsegg Agera S "Green Goblin," with an amazing, exposed green carbon fibre body;
- A limited edition Aston Martin Valour finished in Andromeda Red.
We could go on listing incredible cars for days...
The impact of an extraordinary event
It's no overstatement to say that, after the Supercar Driver Secret Meet, the next few days seem rather bland and colourless in comparison. The return from total immersion in a world of dream cars to the real world leaves a bit of a void in the soul of the car enthusiast.
Perhaps it's just as well that ordinary, non-supercar-owning people rarely get to see the Secret Meet. To expose the average motorist to the experience and then expect them to go home and face the reality of a grey hatchback with a squeaky fanbelt... That would be just too cruel.
