Whats going on with the 2004 track day scene?

[JakeR]

I am new to trackdays, and am currently sorting my track car ready for some good old fashioned hooning in the slightly warmer months (feb on?)

have been in touch with quite a few trackday companies, and it seems that very few dates are available for 2004 yet.

One guy told me that liability insurance has gone through the roof and is making track days unprofitable.

Anyone got any comments/suggestions? I am desperate to get on track and improve my driving....

cheers

Jake

[jeremyc]

JakeR said:

Anyone got any comments/suggestions? I am desperate to get on track and improve my driving....

Check out www.bookatrack.com - they have 28 track days already listed between now and July....

Plenty of opportunity to get out and improve your driving with IMHO the best organisers going.

>> Edited by jeremyc on Thursday 29th January 11:18

[daydreamer]

RMA have also launched their calendar and are sending out email flyers at the moment.

[joospeed]

there is an issue with liability insurance, at the recent bookatrack anglesey event it wasn't a track day but some other kind of day, essentially a track day in everything other than title, but there must have been some implication on the wording to absolve bookatrack of liability? .. or to maintain their insurance cover? .. I don't know the details exactly but it seems even on a race track where you know things can go very wrong there's issues over liability and insurance cover.
funny old world ..

[ehasler]

It's not just track days - I've been trying to book general testing sessions for my race car, and some circuits don't have these dates finalised either. I think they just take a bit of time to sort out their calendars, as everything has to fit around the big race meetings, and if there are delays in confirming these, then everything else is delayed too.

Also, the sale of Brands, Snett, Cadwell and Oulton has probably meant that dates have been up in the air until this was sorted not long ago.

[JakeR]

daydreamer said:

RMA have also launched their calendar and are sending out email flyers at the moment.

anyone got a website or number for them?

cheers...

[JakeR]

it does seem a sad reflection on the whole nanny state/compensation culture/over-legislative/anti-car/let's wrap everyone in cotton wool world we live in.

I sold my tiv partly because it was getting difficult to enjoy it on the road. To find that this namby-pambyism is reaching the track as well is galling to say the minimum.

[ehasler]

JakeR said:

daydreamer said: RMA have also launched their calendar and are sending out email flyers at the moment. anyone got a website or number for them? cheers...

www.rma-limited.co.uk

[Melv]

Seems Silverstone b*ggering around with the GP date has left it to the trackday organisers to pick up the left-overs after the various championships and club races have sorted their dates out -according to PCGB anyway!!

Melv

[Rob P]

I was surprised by the lack of dates on the websites for trackdays. I just put it down to being too early in the year to have the calender finalised?

I really hope its not related to fecking liability insurance and the like

[Stig]

Not forgetting that Messrs. Palmer & Co. have bought most tracks, so may have their own slant on who can provide what!