Anglesey Coastal Circuit

[Fatrat]

Hi

I'm thinking of doing a trackday in the Elise here with these people:

http://www.circuit-days.co.uk/event_info.asp?id=32...

Does anyone have sny experince of a) the circuit and b) Circuit Days?

Thanks

[mike_knott]

Loads of people rave about the circuit; some think it is a bit too far to travel for what you get.

It is not one of my favourites, and could have been a lot better considering they had a blank piece of paper, but if you haven't done a track day before it is a reasonably good circuit that is wide and grippy and with a fair amount of run-off.

(Edit: just seen your profile. Depending on how far 'south' you are, it is a long way to go...)

Circuit days also seem to split people's opinions. The one day I have done with them was ok, and I have seen much worse days from other, more highly regarded organisers. If you have an Elise, Lotus on Track may be a safer bet (although I don't think they do Anglesey).

Mike...

Edited by mike_knott on Saturday 11th September 20:48

[shangani]

I have done around 100 trackdays. The Circuitdays day I attended at Donington Park is the worst trackday I have ever been on.

- Dangerous driving
- Cars not pulling over to allow faster cars past (in fact on car actively drove me off the circuit onto the grass as I wenr past
- Dreadful marshalling (like waving cars out in front of other traffic
- Red flags every 10 minutes
- Far too many people on the day resulting in massive waits in the pitlane
- Paid the premium for an open pitlane day and the day went sessioned to try to cope with the numbers

I headed home at lunch time to avoid getting my car wrecked.

Never ever would use them again.

[Pesky]

Mike is the first person I've known be dissappointed with Anglesey circuit (any layout). I've done the National (x1)/Coastal (x1)/International(x3), & would have no hesitation in recommending it. Location is superb, track is super smooth with numerous gradient changes, with fast & slow corners. Facilities are somewhat lacking eg no garages, but imho it's well worth the trip, especially if you can make a weekend of it. Elises/Exiges are perfect cars to take on track there.

Can't comment about Circuit Days as I've nver personally used them - I stick to either LOT or Bookatrack days.

[S Works]

I agree with Pesky, Anglesey's a great circuit if you don't mind the schlep up there (I see you're in the south).

I did a weekend trip up there a while back with a couple of mates and combined a Bookatrack day with a tour of some of the best roads in Wales. Stayed here the night before the track day and highly recommend it. Really nice people and a superb breakfast, a mere 3 mins drive from the track:

http://www.angleseybandb.co.uk/

BaT have a number of days on the various configurations coming up. Personally I'd pay a little more and do the International GP one...
http://bookatrack.com/-pE_Trackday-Calendar.html

Edited by S Works on Sunday 12th September 18:48

[andyspiers]

How about this one instead the week earlier?

http://www.focusedevents.com/car_event_info.asp?ID...

Not Circuit Days and cheaper too. The only thing it doesn't mention is if it's open pit lane or not.

I've not been to a Focused Events day but I have read up about them and have not heard any horror stories - I would be willing to give them a go. Anyone else have any feedback about them? Apparently they're one of the biggest (maybe the biggest?) bike track-day organiser and have just started doing car days too this year.

Anglesey is on my list of tracks to do also but it'd have to be a weekend job seeing it's getting on for 5 hours drive from London.

[The Pits]

Anglesey is great, especially for an Elise/Exige. It's the place 5th gear used to test a lot of cars. I've only done the 'GP' layout which is a decently long lap with a good variety of corners. However the circuit layout without the extra loop out to the hairpin looks very good (which I think is the Coastal circuit) and possibly like the Donington national versus the 'GP', ie no worse at all.

I had no problem whatsoever with Circuit days. In fact I found them very reasonable, they even let my brother and I go out first to let our caterhams have an unhindered lap. It poured with rain in the afternoon and we had the track pretty much to ourselves which was immense fun in the Elise. The Caterhams were put away back we enjoyed endless drift practice in the Elise. It was one of the better track days we've had in the UK.