Thruxton track day in '05?

[iguana]

Anyone spotted anyone offering one?

I know its rarer than rocking horse jobbies to get one here, but its my local track & I've just got to drive it & although they offer a couple of test days per year the thought of mixing with full on GT cars etc is not really that appealing! Thats even assuming you can even do a test day on a restricted B (sprints/hillclimbs) licence? & im not sure you can.


I heard a rumour Goldtrack were doing a day here, but not spotted anything on their website.

[Don]

Alex,

Goldtrack are the only people I've ever heard of doing Thruxton days. Perhaps RMA have in the past?

I've driven it twice - and each time I've had to go down the route of buying laps off the "Race School".

Upsides: Its their Elise you're hammering. Instructors, once convinced you are not going to crash, reasonably encouraging on the swiftness front.

Downsides: 14 laps only - with race school attendees on track who are, by definition, first timers, some of whom are by themselves in the single seaters - they do rather get in the way... Also - list price £199 discounted on unsold days at short notice to £165. You could always do a "walk up" and phone on the day offering £150!

Still - a lot of money for not very many laps.

[phatgixer]

What are they like about noisy exhausts? Are they as anal as Bedford and Goodwood?

[Martin Hayter]

I'm pretty sure that only Goldtrack have managed to get days there. They are strictly for road-going cars only, with noise limits that put it well out of range for Caterfields, TVRs (and probably Porches as well). Something like 85db I think. Probably the strictest circuit in the country.

[anonymous-user]

IMHO thruxton is a really boring circuit, well the small complex after the pit 'straight' provides some entertainment. and dont bother with their supercar/single seater type days, you get very few laps, there's very limited overtaking allowed (so you follow a load of numpties round in procession), they wont let you push the cars and the single seaters are rev limited so you are screaming on the limiter asleep for 75% of the lap - very dissappointing, and it was free!

[griff2be]

francisb said:

IMHO thruxton is a really boring circuit

... you should try taking Church at 140mph in a Tuscan Challenge car

... its many things, but boring isn't a word I'd have used...

...although I'd agree if it was strictly in the context of the 'experience' day there

[anonymous-user]

griff2be said:

francisb said: IMHO thruxton is a really boring circuit ... you should try taking Church at 140mph in a Tuscan Challenge car

i'd love to. of course its a very fast track which in its self is fun but given the choice of thruxton or any other circuit i can think of i'd not bother with thruxton again. (besides you wanna go that fast round a bend rockingham is quite interesting too!)

[iguana]

francisb said:

of course its a very fast track

Suposidly the fastest track in the uk! tho against Goodwood & Silverstone GP can that be right? (mind you no racing except the once a yr revival at Goodwood I guess)

[martvr]

Had a chat with them on their stand at Autosport a couple of weeks back asking just the same thing. How do we get access to your circuit in our own cars?

Apart from there not being any trackdays advertised they apparently have an 84dB limit. Yep, you read that right, I didn't think they were serious and had misheard the figure. Reckon you'd need a milk float with all the bottles removed to get under that limit.

[Martin Hayter]

Yep - definitely the fastest track in the country. For many cars it's 100% flat out from the complex to the chicane - about two thirds of the lap(and then flat out from the chicane to the complex!).