Yas Marina experience days

Yas Marina experience days

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Rocketman105

Original Poster:

387 posts

214 months

Sunday 14th August 2011
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Anyone ever been to any of the experience days at Yas Marina circuit? Any good?

Me and a few colleagues are planning on a winter visit.

Cheers


yorky500

1,715 posts

198 months

Sunday 14th August 2011
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Heard the Aston one is pretty darned good for the money.

Best bet - all of you hire a car and then doa track day with them gotta be the best way to go.

PhillT

2,488 posts

232 months

Monday 15th August 2011
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Yes. Number one for me by a mile is the three-seater dragster - it's properly mental and only about 600AED.
If you're filthy rich then the two-seater F1 car is really cool, but it's 7500AED.
The Aston GT4 is pretty sweet too, but I can't remember how much it is, sorry.
Others have recommended the Radicals too.

But for me, dragster is the best value for money by far. It's short, but for adrenaline-per-dirham, it wins easily.

thb

303 posts

181 months

Monday 15th August 2011
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The Aston experience at Yas used to be 750Dhs, so was rather good value.

However, Yas have recently revised all of their prices, and the Aston experience now costs 1500Dhs for the same thing.

For that sort of money, I would recommend looking at the Driver Experiences at the Dubai Autodrome. The track might not be as flash, but the circuit is actually much better to drive, and I think they've just taken delivery of a batch of Audi RS5s. There's also the R8s to drive there for 1295Dhs.

Richard Moss

135 posts

214 months

Monday 15th August 2011
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AED 1500 is pretty reasonably priced - in line with UK prices (my wife wants an Aston driving experience as her 40th birthday present).

Rocketman105

Original Poster:

387 posts

214 months

Tuesday 16th August 2011
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Thanks for the responses guys. Sounds like it's probably worth a visit.

On a slightly different tack; does anyone know of any companies that hire out cars specifically for trackdays at Yas Marina / Dubai Autodrome? My google searches are not coming up with much.

PhillT

2,488 posts

232 months

Tuesday 16th August 2011
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Rocketman105 said:
Thanks for the responses guys. Sounds like it's probably worth a visit.

On a slightly different tack; does anyone know of any companies that hire out cars specifically for trackdays at Yas Marina / Dubai Autodrome? My google searches are not coming up with much.
No, is the short answer. Track days aren't covered by insurance out here, so the chance of anyone hiring you a car to drive is pretty minimal.

yorky500

1,715 posts

198 months

Tuesday 16th August 2011
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PhillT said:
No, is the short answer. Track days aren't covered by insurance out here, so the chance of anyone hiring you a car to drive is pretty minimal.
Why would you want to tell them????

If you do happen to meet the barriers on track, just make it so that you can drive the car out of the DA and park it next to some armco that is already damaged haha