track days

[Ade_Law]

well im almost an old git... birthday is in feb and i will be 30...

i have done a few open track days in the past but the beema gets enough abuse im not sure i want to put it through the total ragging a track gives a car.

so have been looking at some options. dont want anything too glam. something small light and rear wheel drive would be cool like a lotus elise.

however you dont seem to get much track time for your money a day of chatting and messing around for 4 laps?

anybody know of anythng that might concetrate more on driving and less of the class room chat?

Ade

[Boggy]

independant day at bruntingthorp ade. book the track hire the weapon of choice from them and let rip after a half hour saftey lesson. the more people the cheaper the track. cars vary in price and are fixed per person.
i know john walton who owns it i'll ask for you.(tbh i think its dying a death due to palmers motor racing school moving to their own track at bedford so i'll find out for you!)

[Boggy]

by the way couldn't get a futaba servo i got a hitec hs50 at 0 .09sec is that worth a try?

[Leebert]

Caterham 7. Any Superlight with the naughty side of 160 Bhp (No, I know it doesn't sound a lot but trust me, I'm an idiot ;-)

[Leebert]

One of these would do just fine for tight tracks.

[url]http://www.rcheliaddict.co.uk/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=2049&ppuser=1681[/url]

[Boggy]

great choice!!!( caterham)

[SimonN]

Ade,

Seeing as you are always getting people to spend their money (you made me spend £*00's on a K3D, you just didn't know it...) ;) ..... in my opinion there's only one track day worth doing - check out the Palmer Audi day:

[url]http://www.palmersport.com/[/url]

It's not cheap, but worth every penny - loads of track time and they really encourage you to take the car to the limit (and beyond!). Seriously, lasts all day, more track time than you want (honestly, you're knackered by the end of it!) and you get to drive some very special cars VERY quickly.

So, save your £200, spend the extra on this !!:D

Simon

[happy man]

We do lots of track days you could always blag a ride with one of us :D

so long as you give us tips to improve our flying we do track days all over the country But we don't let you drive our cars :)

[ame]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=55GyTdtpkMU[/ame]

[mak24seven]

wots your budget? stay clear of the tuition days and car hire all in 1 if your ok with your ability's, i tend to get 20 days in a year 12 car and 8 bike just book yourself in on any open trackdays and if it open pit day u'll have a ball, u need to pick the one's mid week so if not many turn up its called open pit so in affect u go out at 9am and come in a 4pm if your pushing it and depending on the track generally the cars had enough after 10 laps and needs a breather, the last one me and the lads did at donno was open pit 30 cars on the day max i did 15 laps virtually on my own in between a gt40 running in and a couple of race spect 360's :-) all for 120 squid mint.

[happy man]

[quote=mak24seven;97951]wots your budget? stay clear of the tuition days and car hire all in 1 if your ok with your ability's, i tend to get 20 days in a year 12 car and 8 bike just book yourself in on any open trackdays and if it open pit day u'll have a ball, u need to pick the one's mid week so if not many turn up its called open pit so in affect u go out at 9am and come in a 4pm if your pushing it and depending on the track generally the cars had enough after 10 laps and needs a breather, the last one me and the lads did at donno was open pit 30 cars on the day max i did 15 laps virtually on my own in between a gt40 running in and a couple of race spect 360's :-) all for 120 squid mint.[/quote]

Where was that mate :cool:

We're doing Oulton and Donny theis year :D

[mattydred]

yeah - get youself over to germany and onto the nurbergring and go round as many times as you like for about a £10 a lap.

heres 1 i found earlier (had it in my favourites)
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqG-X8DiHjk[/ame]

[mak24seven]

U wont be doing donno or any other this year mate u mean 08 lol. we book through track days unlimited but i know the guy who runs donno for all the bike and car meets so i get the nod so to speak although he has just been diagnosed as lets say being very ill bless him.

[mak24seven]

[quote=mattydred;97959]yeah - get youself over to germany and onto the nurbergring and go round as many times as you like for about a £10 a lap.

heres 1 i found earlier (had it in my favourites)
[URL]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqG-X8DiHjk[/URL][/quote]
u need to go once in your life if your a petrol head but be warned u will get charged for damage to grass or fencing weather your dead or a live, the last time i was there (bike) 4 people died and i had full race spec gt3's biting my ass on a r1, man that place is dangerous and fun.

[Ade_Law]

i used to do em in my hot road mini up at castle coombe and did it in my last beema too.

trouble is a road car is a bag of nails after 5 laps they simply cant take it. A lot of people accuse me of not liking my beema but i like it so much for road driving i dont think i would want to put it through that!

basically im after a best value thing. Not after driving super cars or anything just something fun, the caterham drift days look good for 200ukp but that depends on how much time you get in the car. So ideally i would be out for as long as i can take during the day in one car on one course.

if any of you can save me some money on this i will gladly help you improve your skills on the heli.

Ade

[happy man]

[quote=mak24seven;97960]U wont be doing donno or any other this year mate u mean 08 lol. we book through track days unlimited but i know the guy who runs donno for all the bike and car meets so i get the nod so to speak although he has just been diagnosed as lets say being very ill bless him.[/quote]

:o Yep that'll be 08 then :D

We've used not used trackdays unlimited before might give em a go next year.

Have you done Croft yet did there last year great day :)