Know this might be slightly off topic, but i am a regular contributer to this group so here goes.... want to buy my brother one of those driving experience courses you see adverised in the Sundaypapers, saw the silversone one -which was =A399 for 3/4 laps in a DB7 or the likes, but living up North the Oulton Park rally course for =A3117 for 3 hours looked alot better. Anyone done one of these, or heard about some good experiences anybody has had/hasn't had ? thanks and sorry off topic
I did one at Thruxton using about £80 of Tesco Clubcard vouchers (at x4 value, so approx £320 cash value). It was their most expensive (Tesco) one at the time - and I enjoyed it. It was 3 laps as a passenger in a Mazda 3 MPS to be shown the track and lines, then 4 laps in a Cayman (driving), then 4 laps in a F430 (driving) and then 5 laps in a Formula Renault (single seater, so driving of course!).
Great fun for £80 of vouchers. For me, not worth £320 cash though.
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This is the one I did:
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I got a DVD of my driving the F430 and Formula Renault - about £33 for 1 car, or £46 for 2 cars - that's where they make their money considering all cars were pre-wired for video, they just stick in a CF card and burn it to DVD.
Pretty humiliating though when I was in the Formula Renault and a Mazda
3 MPS on demo lap overtook me!
They also do similar Tesco voucher paid experiences at Croft - though I can't comment on those, although the brochure I was sent by Thruxton had Croft as the back half of the book.
The Oulton Park one I did years ago was rubbish, most of the time was eaten up wirh safety talks so you only got two goes around the track. Definitely not worth the money.
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