Friday 18th May 2007

Heritage Trackdays

PistonHeads special offer for Brands Hatch 24th May

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Heritage Trackdays is operated by a specialist team who have many years of motorsport and trackday experience and are dedicated to getting you on track. If you enjoy driving your own car and would like the opportunity of driving it on circuit, Heritage Trackdays can provide you with the experience.

Brands Hatch Trackday Indy Circuit 24^th May PistonHead Special

WAS £210 now  £165

 

Heritage Trackdays is designed around a practical model to provide the very best of service, tuition, on track care and administrative service.  It offers drivers of modern day, high performance cars, the chance to drive them to their full potential, drivers of everyday road cars to have a little fun, or drivers of historic classics the occasion to bring them out, blow away the cobwebs and enjoy their pride and joy in complete safety.

Whether you are an experienced trackday driver or are attending one of our trackdays for the first time, we offer you a non-intimidating, truly memorable day, in a relaxed club style atmosphere, where you will always be very welcome.

Lotus Elise Hire	Price available upon request
Extra Driver	£40
Extra Passenger	£5
1 Instruction Session	£35
2 Instruction Sessions	£50

To book or for more information on any of our Trackdays please call 01508 536290 or email [e-mail]

[racingpete]

To book or for more information on any of Heritage Trackdays please call 01508 536290 or email [e-mail]

[noumenon]

Heritage - they're a top notch crew. I can't make this, but can recommend the company for their excellent days. Well run and typically undersubscribed.

[mini*drummer]

il be there!

[jleroux]

noumenon said:

Well run and typically undersubscribed.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

[gtdc]

Sure is.

[noumenon]

jleroux said:

noumenon said:

Well run and typically undersubscribed.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

Edited by noumenon on Tuesday 22 May 18:04

[KateB]

There are still spaces available and the forecast looks good! So if you fancy a last minute trackday, let us know!

We will probably be running open pit lane all day now, as it is a fairly quiet day, so lots of tracktime!

[Phil. S.]

I'll be there. Done Brands quite a few times in my Westfield, but this is the first time in an Elise.

[silv]

Why £40.00 for an extra driver? I can never understand this extra charge can anyone explain the reasoning behind it?

[anonymous-user]

Insurance.

[silv]

LexSport said:

Insurance.

I could name two who don't charge!! IMO its a rip off. I spoke to a certain circuit owning company yesterday who said that for multiple drivers they will do a deal on £45.00 for each extra driver!!
Insurance!! I don't think so!!

[gtdc]

Well... on an open pit lane day we take x number of cars. For example, at Spa I know from experience that there will never be so many cars on track that people will have to queue. However, if people bring an extra driver (and I don't mean someone who'd just like to do a couple of laps) I know that will mean that that car will be out on track a lot more than a car with just one driver. For that reason we charge £150 per extra driver.

On a day where we run 2 groups we charge £50 per extra driver because (in no particular order):-

- if you don't charge you can find you get blokes turning up with 4 or 5 mates sharing a car that don't give a t0ss about anything, rag the @ss off the car, get in the gravel etc etc
- we still have to insure them, give them familiarisation, look after them and most importantly, share our chocolate with them
- if you have to pay for it you are far more careful about who you let drive your car and far less likely to say "Ok, so and so can have a quick go" and then have him toast it
- it's an extra source of income on the day... track costs go up and we haven't put up any prices except Brands for ages so we need to extra driver loot

Snot a rip off if we look after your guests beautifully, get them instructed and briefed well and make sure you're not sharing the tarmac with a group of 5 neddies all sharing a knackered old snotter...

Melindi
www.goldtrack.co.uk

[Phil. S.]

What a great day! Because of the numbers we went to open pit lane after the first session. At the reduced price this was a bargain. Great weather, met some really nice people, and had great fun on track. On top of that there were some beautiful race cars on track, including a DB4 Zagato, and an awesome Camaro. The Ford GT was pretty impressive as well, and sounded fantastic!
The day was friendly and well-organized. If anyone's interested, I've posted a clip of a couple couple of laps on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zU1BlUhznk
I'll post some more interesting clips including some of the other cars when I get a chance to go through all of the footage.

Edited by Phil. S. on Sunday 27th May 12:22

[RS_200]

Hi All

Does anyone know what the company was called / website for the photography at Heritage trackday on the 24th?

Thanks

James

[m3jappa]

it was www.xtremesportsphotography.net iirc

i was there,first day at brands in my e36 m3.had a great day and really enjoyed it.was getting a few lines completly wrong so would of liked cones out as that would have really helped.i couldnt get instruction until 3pm.ah well was good none the less.at end of day i timed a best 56.4 which has loads of room for improvement.
heres a (rather long)vid of one of the instructors ben following me in his very quick vx220.his driving is supurb

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyQ1PJWzXm8

[Phil. S.]

Here's another clip showing some of the superb cars on track last Thursday (most of them overtaking me).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U5JjOtMPHI

[:J:]

I was in the passenger seat of the racing Aston (No.78)

[Phil. S.]

That must have been quite an experience!

:J: said:

I was in the passenger seat of the racing Aston (No.78)

[:J:]

Phil. S. said:

That must have been quite an experience!

:J: said:

I was in the passenger seat of the racing Aston (No.78)

Grinning from ear to ear, the most awesome thing I have been driven around a track in to date !!!

I was speechless when I got back to the pits, and to people that know me, that's a shocker !!

[mini*drummer]

Phil. S. said:

Here's another clip showing some of the superb cars on track last Thursday (most of them overtaking me).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U5JjOtMPHI

You were right about the camaro in your video it is about 550 bhp and its owned by arthur thurtle, raced by him as well along with boysie thurtle (son of) and roger bennington.

He is one of the nicest gentlemen you will ever meet

Check www.heritagegtcc.co.uk to see when we're racing. Come along and say hi. I will be about, probably trying to fix this grrring data logger lol.

Regards,

Tim