Track day thoughts..

Nov 08, 2005 38 Replies

Just out of interest, I suspect this has been thought of and mentioned a trillion times before, but still, here goes.



Wouildn't it be good if we hired a circuit for a day just to give our motors a giant URCM thrash?



Don't know what it costs to do such a silly thing, but I remember when the team I used to be with took the rally car to Oulton Park a few millenium ago it was only something sensible like £80 for a morning, ISTR the whole day would have cost something like £350, which I thought was quite (read this as "too") cheap.



Non - competitive stuff, obviously, but if someone happened to sit on the pit wall with a couple of stopwatches it wouldn't do any harm would it?



Weekdays would be a lot cheaper, I'd think, so if we booked far enough in advance everyone should have time to get the day off or whatever.



Do it as cheaply as possible, obviously, none of this hiring pits type malarky, just the absolute minimum + a salmonella van.



Is this possible, who'd be up for it, and who can be arsed organising it?



Count me in i'll bring some rusty vauxhall of some sort

Yeah I would be up for it, but could we not make it Castle Coombe as I would hate my car to go wrong and not be able to get home lol :)

We could all do a top gear-esque banger special.

Say £300 limit on the car you buy for the event?

Someone'd be able to give you a lift back if you had to abandon your banger. (c:

Douglas

That sounds like a great Idea :)

Everyone buys a cheap motor, like a Sierra/ Cav etc for under a certain price, nothing else can be spent on the car, needs to be taxed and MOT'd and we all meet for a fastest lap at race track.

Perhaps we could make it a yearly event haha

I'd most likely be up for it - dunno about organising.

Potentially, depending on where its held. No time for organising though Im afraid.

A RWYB event at Santa Pod would be cool too!

Too far away - you really don't want to have to drive any distance before or after a track day.

I prefer airfield days, myself, 'cos it doesn't matter how silly you are, you're not going to hit anything.

No chance, I'm out of space, and the 75 doesn't qualify.

Somewhere like Oulton Park or Donnington Park would make sense as they are both quite central if on different sides of the country.

I'd say have a budget of say £300 that you can spend any way you like £50 on a Sierra and £150 on new rubber or what have you and £100 on replacing the breaks.

I'd be up for it, not sure how far I'd drive to get there but I've always wanted my spin a car round a track. Might bring the Pug 305 just for the comedy element :D

Chris.

I think I meant to write 'I've always wanted to spin my car round a track', or something like that. And yes, I think I probably would spin it ;)

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Does my warranty cover track use :-) ?

F*ck it, if it breaks, someone can tow you to the nearest public road ;-)

Same for insurance purposes if somone bins it..... just get towed to the road and push through a convenient hedge.

I'm not joking, either.... I've seen it done.

Just go to the 'ring, "I've had an accident on a toll road in the eiffel mountains"

Indeed. A mate of mine once told me about a bloke that had hired an Elise for the weekend (that had a mileage limit of a few hundred miles), and took it around the Nurburgring and stuffed it. He put it back on the transporter he took it over there on, conveniently situated it somewhere in Britain, and reported the accident :-)

Believe it or not but on the Ring you are covered by your insurance: it's considered a normal road, not a circuit or racetrack. Overtaking for example may not be done at random, left or right and you can (and will) be booked if you are clearly racing another car.

Only when there are competitif races (and during the trainings for it) going on, the status changes from normal road to closed circuit.

Rather special: driving it in excess of 240 kph in a sportscar (but within own imposed margings) and then being left for dead by one of the locals in a 310 kph-Golf I (datalogged).

Ring is written with a capital letter, drive on it and you'll know why ;-)

TDM

You'd have to be either pressing really hard or a totally s*it driver to stuff an Elise. Those things grip and corner like they are on rails.

Fraser

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