Tracks with higher noise limits.

Tracks with higher noise limits.

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RB Will

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9,943 posts

247 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Hi all.
Already have a track car that I can take anywhere but have also recently bought a Cerbera which isn’t quiet and I’d like to give it a likely one off go on track just to see what it is like.
Need to get it properly sound tested to see just how bad it is but I can tell from comparison to my other cars that it is not going to be allowed anywhere near my regular haunt of Castle Combe, and I know Thruxton has lower limits.
I’m in Wiltshire so nearer to there the better.
The only place I can recall going where they didn’t bother with sound testing was Silverstone.

LondonTom

89 posts

221 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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RB Will said:
Hi all.
Already have a track car that I can take anywhere but have also recently bought a Cerbera which isn’t quiet and I’d like to give it a likely one off go on track just to see what it is like.
Need to get it properly sound tested to see just how bad it is but I can tell from comparison to my other cars that it is not going to be allowed anywhere near my regular haunt of Castle Combe, and I know Thruxton has lower limits.
I’m in Wiltshire so nearer to there the better.
The only place I can recall going where they didn’t bother with sound testing was Silverstone.
Goodwood have some 105db days on their calendar.

upsidedownmark

2,120 posts

142 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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Have done a couple of 'loud' (unrestricted IIRC) days at Donington in the past. Not the closest, but a lovely circuit. Seemed to attract a few racecars as a result; I have zero issue with that, but I know it bothers some folk.

Derek182

166 posts

87 months

Tuesday 16th March 2021
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I wouldn't try Brands, a friend with a noisy Caterham passed the 105db static test but got pulled in for tripping the driveby meters, spent the rest of the day short-shifting everywhere.
The same car has been fine at Cadwell and Snetterton, not sure if they have driveby meters as they are more isolated, a long drive from Wiltshire though!

E-bmw

9,976 posts

159 months

Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Derek182 said:
The same car has been fine at Cadwell and Snetterton, not sure if they have driveby meters as they are more isolated, a long drive from Wiltshire though!
I am not sure if it has changed recently, but Cadwell never used to drive by test at all due to the seclusion of the place & it being in a natural dip in the topography.

MrNoisy

530 posts

148 months

Wednesday 17th March 2021
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Derek182 said:
I wouldn't try Brands, a friend with a noisy Caterham passed the 105db static test but got pulled in for tripping the driveby meters, spent the rest of the day short-shifting everywhere.
The same car has been fine at Cadwell and Snetterton, not sure if they have driveby meters as they are more isolated, a long drive from Wiltshire though!
Snetterton does have drive by. I regularly just pass the static at 105db at Snett but have never triggered the drive by.

gruffalo

7,686 posts

233 months

Wednesday 17th March 2021
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RB Will said:
Hi all.
Already have a track car that I can take anywhere but have also recently bought a Cerbera which isn’t quiet and I’d like to give it a likely one off go on track just to see what it is like.
Need to get it properly sound tested to see just how bad it is but I can tell from comparison to my other cars that it is not going to be allowed anywhere near my regular haunt of Castle Combe, and I know Thruxton has lower limits.
I’m in Wiltshire so nearer to there the better.
The only place I can recall going where they didn’t bother with sound testing was Silverstone.
I have some Cerbera Track Cans you can use, they knock about 10db off on mine, a bunch of us are at Combe on 28th May so you could book I can bring them along for you, they fit the ACT sports Exhaust.

I went for a quiet back box on mine and can meet the 100db requirement for Castle Combe with room to spare. If you didn't want to take your Cerb on Track you can always have pax laps in mine to get a feel for what they can do.




Edited by gruffalo on Wednesday 17th March 16:44