£300 to spend - what driving experience to go for?

[Darrone.]

Hello chaps,

I have £300 to spend on a "driving experience" - can any of you suggest one?

Me and a mate were thinking of going to one of the BookaTrack days and hiring the Caterham but all of the open pit lane days are out of our budget and I don't really fancy doing 15 minute sessions - I want to be driving as much as I can.

Any suggestions welcome!

Cheers
Darrone

[mikey_p]

Darrone. said:

Hello chaps,

I have £300 to spend on a "driving experience" - can any of you suggest one?

Me and a mate were thinking of going to one of the BookaTrack days and hiring the Caterham but all of the open pit lane days are out of our budget and I don't really fancy doing 15 minute sessions - I want to be driving as much as I can.

Any suggestions welcome!

Cheers
Darrone

What about one of the evening sessions? It's not a whole day obviously but I have done an evening in one of their Caterhams and it was plenty of track time. Although if you are sharing with a mate you will get less time at the wheel, as you have to let the car cool down in between runs.

[Darrone.]

I did think about doing the evening session... that way me and my mate could afford our own car.

Hmmmmm....

Cheers mate.

[car.chic]

Darrone,

Please see my post about tailor made track days and driving experiences.

Would you like to see what i can do for £300? Will need a little more info, if you are interested please PM me.

Regards,
Nicola

[GnuBee]

Darrone,
when do you want the driving experience? We are about to announce another series of dates for our track-day taster events which have proved popular in the past (in fact we had another 8 people on our event at Bedford on bank holiday Monday).

More information about what a track-day taster day is can be found at

www.track-club.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1170437277

And an article that talks about the different kinds of experiences available can be found at

www.track-club.com/cgi-bin/forum/Blah.pl?m-1173959593

If you want to see the kind of cars we typically bring along to our events checkout

www.track-club.com/fleetIndex.asp

For last Monday's event we brought the Clio, Roadsport, Elise, Exige S2 and the Palmer JP1...

[Darrone.]

Thanks GnuBee for replying.

The novice day sounds ideal to be honest. One question though, you say and I quote (!) "Firstly you'll not be sharing with other people (unless you want to that is, the price includes 2 drivers), you'll have a single car to yourself and the day will be at a recognised track (Snetterton, Oulton Park, Brands Hatch for example)."

Does this mean that me and a mate could turn up, pay £300 each and share the driving for the day of say the Caterham 7 you have?

If it does, you could well be hearing from soon to book a date!

Cheers
Darrone

[gutmann pug]

Mallory park driver training. The session lasts 2 hours and I spent probably 1 1/2 hours of it killing their Leon Cupra R. Not only do you get to drive quickly but you get taught stuff at the same time. I would recommend it 100%

[smckeown]

for that price you can get an all day 1-2-1 session with a pro. But you'd have to supply the car and pay for the track day.

[Darrone.]

smckeown said:

for that price you can get an all day 1-2-1 session with a pro. But you'd have to supply the car and pay for the track day.

Soooo... that would cost more than £300 then wouldn't it...

[GnuBee]

Darrone,
I missed your question in this thread. Basically for the novice days the answer is yes i.e. the cost covers 2 drivers so the 2 of you could in effect do the day for £300 each.

The other option would be the track day taster day which would come in under your budget and you would get quality time in our cars.