Evo Track Days...

[Galahad]

Hi all,

Looking to book a few track days for the summer and a friend told me he'd booked an evening session at Bedford with Evo in June. When I had a look, I saw that they're charging £199 for an evening session as opposed to the £139 that MSV charge. Are the Evo events 'special' in any way, with low numbers etc, or are they just cashing in on unwitting readers?

Cheers

Chris

[ecain63]

Unfortunately they've decided to join the other higher end TDO's and have whacked the prices up. I did the Goodwood dates a couple of times, but f** that this year. I love Goodwood, but at that price it should at least be open pitlane. Adding up the numbers (fuel, ticket and insurance) I'd be looking at a day costing potentially £1000 there. That's not including tyres and brakes either. Silverstone GP just leapt past the £1000 figure too with the increases in fuel costs and £600+ ticket price inc garage.

Nobody said motorsport / trackdays would be cheap, but.......

[Galahad]

ecain63 said:

Unfortunately they've decided to join the other higher end TDO's and have whacked the prices up. I did the Goodwood dates a couple of times, but f** that this year. I love Goodwood, but at that price it should at least be open pitlane. Adding up the numbers (fuel, ticket and insurance) I'd be looking at a day costing potentially £1000 there. That's not including tyres and brakes either. Silverstone GP just leapt past the £1000 figure too with the increases in fuel costs and £600+ ticket price inc garage.

Nobody said motorsport / trackdays would be cheap, but.......

Yeah prices do seem to be inexorably rising (like most things) but I guess my question was more about if Evo are a 'high end' TDO like RMA, and what exactly they offer differently to a standard MSV event.

[ecain63]

Galahad said:

ecain63 said:

Unfortunately they've decided to join the other higher end TDO's and have whacked the prices up. I did the Goodwood dates a couple of times, but f** that this year. I love Goodwood, but at that price it should at least be open pitlane. Adding up the numbers (fuel, ticket and insurance) I'd be looking at a day costing potentially £1000 there. That's not including tyres and brakes either. Silverstone GP just leapt past the £1000 figure too with the increases in fuel costs and £600+ ticket price inc garage.

Nobody said motorsport / trackdays would be cheap, but.......

Yeah prices do seem to be inexorably rising (like most things) but I guess my question was more about if Evo are a 'high end' TDO like RMA, and what exactly they offer differently to a standard MSV event.

Not a huge amount extra, other than maybe a little goodie-bag and lower numbers. Previously at Goodwood they organised BMW to bring a few M2s / M4s for people to try during a session, but i can't see that on the advert currently. Oh, in the mags it mentions a discount for subscribers........ a grand total of £10 off with code EVO10

[phazed]

I don't mind plenty of cars on track, especially the more open longer tracks, makes it interesting. You can get lost at Bedford even with a full quota of cars on track, (well nearly!).

Costs have all gone up, the most reasonable seem to be Bedford, Snetterton and Combe. It's early in the year admittedly, I'm doing Bedford all day, open pitlane on Monday @ £159.00. Great value.

[Elderly]

ecain63 said:

Adding up the numbers (fuel, ticket and insurance) I'd be looking at a day costing potentially £1000 there. That's not including tyres and brakes either. Silverstone GP just leapt past the £1000 figure too with the increases in fuel costs and £600+ ticket price inc garage. ...

And that’s out of taxed income …….

[ecain63]

Elderly said:

And that’s out of taxed income …….

Personally, yes. Can't say it'll be the same for all.

[Mark83]

Decent cars and drivers from my experience. No £500 Clios on slicks arriving and leaving on the back of trucks.

BMW and Audi have been there on the ones I've done and I've driven an M4 and R8 V10.

[Galahad]

Cheers guys.

I'll give it a punt and report back.

[FTW]

Some of their days include refreshments and photography.

[Kswap]

A few TDO’s offer free photography and basic refreshments.
In fact I think MSV are the only ones who don’t these days.
Maybe I’m the minority but I like having other different cars on track with me. It’s nice to see what my 90’s tin can can keep up with lol. Being out there on my own all day would be quite boring.

[Bincenzo]

Did the Evo trackday at Bedford last night. Essentially it’s an MSV event hosted by some Evo staff. No refreshments, no goodie bag and no photographs (Evo photographer present but for their use). Nice to chat to some of the team though and with only 33 cars on track it was a good event. Great mix of cars and people, no tossers so all in all, worth the £189.

[CABC]

Bincenzo said:

Did the Evo trackday at Bedford last night. Essentially it’s an MSV event hosted by some Evo staff. No refreshments, no goodie bag and no photographs (Evo photographer present but for their use). Nice to chat to some of the team though and with only 33 cars on track it was a good event. Great mix of cars and people, no tossers so all in all, worth the 189.

is that 33 cars registered for the whole event? that's low, good value if so.
Goodwood can't be too busy, any incident could be very serious there. low on track numbers make it a lovely circuit and it's often opl late afternoon.

[anonymous-user]

I’m doing Goodwood next Monday. The Evo prices are not that much more than other tdos but they have all gone up. Only 30 cars and they offer free tuition as well.

Goodwood is such an atmospheric place as well.

[Bincenzo]

CABC said:

Bincenzo said:

Did the Evo trackday at Bedford last night. Essentially it’s an MSV event hosted by some Evo staff. No refreshments, no goodie bag and no photographs (Evo photographer present but for their use). Nice to chat to some of the team though and with only 33 cars on track it was a good event. Great mix of cars and people, no tossers so all in all, worth the 189.

is that 33 cars registered for the whole event? that's low, good value if so.
Goodwood can't be too busy, any incident could be very serious there. low on track numbers make it a lovely circuit and it's often opl late afternoon.

Yep, 33 total cars there, think they had a couple of cancellations. They will accept up to 45 at Bedford and 30 at Goodwood. I really enjoyed it. My middle stint I barely saw another car.

[phazed]

Personally I like a busy track. For me there is nothing worse than having an empty track in front and behind you.

I like being pushed from behind or following a better driver to improve my lines.

If I’m on my own on an empty track my mind wonders to what my wife is cooking for dinner! It’s then that I’ll make a mistake.

[Bincenzo]

phazed said:

Personally I like a busy track. For me there is nothing worse than having an empty track in front and behind you.

I like being pushed from behind or following a better driver to improve my lines.

If I’m on my own on an empty track my mind wonders to what my wife is cooking for dinner! It’s then that I’ll make a mistake.

I get that completely. First stint was busy with the opportunity to do exactly as you mentioned. Middle sesh empty then last one a little busier. Good mix.