What track day to do.....

[pvapour]

I have some time to myself over the next 2 weeks and a build up in my track day fund account

but am at a loss of what to do for some track action, got around £1000 but obviously i dont have to blow the lot, dont mind taking the 4200 round but equaly up for hireing something different like an Atom or a Quck caterham, home grown track or drive to one abroad, Nurburgring still a bit iffy weather wise i think (or does the recent warm weather extend to the Green hell?) love Donington but done it quite a few times, always fancied Cadwell but never had an appropriate car (4200 bit to lardy i think)

Am totaly open to suggestions as its been a while and a bit rusty on where to look


Nik

Edited by pvapour on Thursday 1st February 08:37

[jleroux]

Caterham Superlight for the day at Cadwell Park on the 11th Feb. £535 all inclusive at www.bookatrack.com. Even leaves you enough change for some booze and hookers - far better use of your money than track days and much less addictive.

Jonny
BaT

[pvapour]

jleroux said:

Caterham Superlight for the day at Cadwell Park on the 11th Feb. £535 all inclusive at www.bookatrack.com. Even leaves you enough change for some booze and hookers - far better use of your money than track days and much less addictive.

Jonny
BaT

did have a quick look at your days Jonny (not been on one of yours for a year now ) but the superlight R lacks enough grunt IMO, so would have to be the R400 but that £2500 deposit I just cant justify.


Hope all is going well

Edited by pvapour on Thursday 1st February 09:24

[pvapour]

Got my subscription to Circuit Driver through this morning so looking through that for some ideas at the mom....

[werewolf]

Oulton park is a great circuit

[pvapour]

werewolf said:

Oulton park is a great circuit

Never been there, but from what i remember of BSB its quite a fast open track which would probably suit my car better, who did you attend with? any recomendations?

[werewolf]

Have always found motorsport vision to be a well run day.usually well attended with drivers of varying abilities.Driving standards are good and it`s all nice and relaxed.It`s a great circuit to drive though parts of it can be tricky( druids ) if it rains.Best to book an instuctor to show you the lines etc..Money well spent.

[fergus]

er, the superlight R and the R400 are essentially the same car!

[jleroux]

our standard cars are superlights (no R, about 135bhp) and we're getting an R400 (cosworth duratec, about 210bhp) in April. quite a few people get the superlights and superlight R's mixed up - I blame the "SUPERLIGHT" race series that used to run SLR's - all very confusing.

Jonny
BaT

[mikee]

Johnny you're going to let the public loose in your R400 Duratec, you are brave

What's the likely cost for a day at Donnington for example?

[pvapour]

now i've started looking around a bit there is actualy a few companies in the oily pages section of PH that hire out track day cars, topcats do a Tuscan race car for not to much, so looking at maybe getting one of these to a track.

Donington on the 6th with Goldtrack looks tempting.

Thanks for your input anyway

Edited by pvapour on Thursday 1st February 21:34

[jleroux]

list price for the R400 will be £995 plus the cost of the track day (usually around £200).

Jonny

[pvapour]

jleroux said:

list price for the R400 will be £995 plus the cost of the track day (usually around £200).

Jonny

is'nt nov - feb £795 or am i reading it wrong & is a 1/2 day possible? was looking for something on next week but i dont think you've got anything on?

I'm not picky at all eh

Edited by pvapour on Friday 2nd February 12:30

[GnuBee]

Goldtrack are running...

Snetterton tomorrow @ £150 150db
Donington National on Tuesday @ £175 Unrestricted noise
Silverstone Sat 17th @ £199 Noisy day

We could get a car to any of these events for you - more information at www.track-club.com but basically anything from £495 for a Clio right the way up to a Caterham CSR 260 (unfortunately the JP1 won't be quite ready ).

[fergus]

jleroux said:

our standard cars are superlights (no R, about 135bhp) and we're getting an R400 (cosworth duratec, about 210bhp) in April. quite a few people get the superlights and superlight R's mixed up - I blame the "SUPERLIGHT" race series that used to run SLR's - all very confusing.

Jonny
BaT

Jonny, not being a pedant here, but I was only commenting on Pvapour's post I'm aware of the difference, otherwise I've got a 210hp superlight!

[jleroux]

pvapour, yes you're right - but the R400 doesn't turn up until April so I didn't bother mentioning the Winter rates. I have my 200bhp eRise (honda elise) for hire at £695 if you're interested. Certainly a handful but great fun on the Nitron dampers. Just had an LSD fitted too so really looking forward to giving it a run.

Happy to do a half day in the eRise (60% cost) as I can share it the other half of the day then but we don't have any availability for the Caterhams left i'm afraid (except Donington on the 27th).

fergus, I realised you knew what you were on about - my post was for pvapour's clarification.

[tvr350tim]

GnuBee said:

Goldtrack are running...

Snetterton tomorrow @ £150 150db
Donington National on Tuesday @ £175 Unrestricted noise
Silverstone Sat 17th @ £199 Noisy day

We could get a car to any of these events for you - more information at www.track-club.com but basically anything from £495 for a Clio right the way up to a Caterham CSR 260 (unfortunately the JP1 won't be quite ready ).

I had the CSR260 recently on track-clubs winter rates for £995, they got me a discount on the track day fee as well. Absolutely fantastic car, only thing that went past me was an SR3 Supersport. Great service as well.

[pvapour]

Thanks chaps, will think it out over the W/E some good options there partcularly like the sounds of your elise jonny.

Gnubee - Would love to drive one of the Atoms as I might be looking at buying one this year, does it have to bve a whole day hire rate on those or can you do a half day rate?

[pvapour]

I'm going to take up on both of your services guys but later on when the weather here has improved, for the time being i think i need a europe run & to get out of this country for some open road action, so going to check out the Ring next w/e, i know the weather could be dodgy but the run there will be fun anyway.

Thanks for all your information it will come in handy come Spring & Gnubee, would still love info on the Atom

Thanks, Nick

[sdd]

Generally just full day hire, the winter rate that will apply up to the end of March is £695

Stephen