Radicals at Silverstone

[dh00065p]

Are there any track day organisers that allow you to run a Radical at Silverstone these days?

[TonyF]

I think goldtrack allow radicals but you will need to check.

[dh00065p]

Yes Goldtrack do allow Radicals but don’t have any Silverstone dates.

[wioifoiee]

dh00065p said:

Yes Goldtrack do allow Radicals but don’t have any Silverstone dates.

i thought third party track day organisers were not allowed to book silverstone days anymore... it ended in 2021 i believe. You can only book through silverstone themselves and they don't allow radicals anymore.
unless they've changed the rules since

https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[dh00065p]

No you are absolutely right, you can only use a Radical on test days for which you need a race licence. As I don’t race the car a licence is pointless plus I like the restrictions applied on track days rather than anything goes ( within reason)on a test day. I was just hoping that I had missed some way of driving the car on a great circuit.

[wioifoiee]

dh00065p said:

No you are absolutely right, you can only use a Radical on test days for which you need a race licence. As I don’t race the car a licence is pointless plus I like the restrictions applied on track days rather than anything goes ( within reason)on a test day. I was just hoping that I had missed some way of driving the car on a great circuit.

Ironically I got my race license last year just so I could do testing instead. I had no intention to but found that on track days I'm travelling around 15-30 seconds quicker per lap than everyone else and struggled to get clear laps until much later in the afternoon.
However.....even though the normal price of testing at Silverstone happens to be £3k which is mental, looking through all the dates there appear to be semi exclusive events, preceding the weekend racing, and some are open to non competitors. And they are all in the £5-600 mark!

So you may want to reconsider getting a license coz the dream might still be possible. I'm going to send them an email to find out if those dates are open to literally anyone to join in or not.

EDIT:
so if i filter on Gp circuit and closed wheel, on the silverstone testing website, semi-exclusive

- 22.6, precedes the BARC meeting, open to anyone, £579
- 27.7, precedes MSVR meeting, 3x40min, £389
- 28.7, 2x 45min £369

the other general testing days all precede really slow cars (citreon C1/historic) so wouldn't be possible for us to run in that lot.

so unless they release more dates or you want to pay £3k....looks like that's the only chance i'll get to drive silverstone this year. But presumably those dates above would all be booked out by the competitors racing that weekend.
Or do the radical pre-season test on March 20th which you don't need a licence for, and that's £1620......

Edited by wioifoiee on Saturday 4th February 11:01

Edited by wioifoiee on Saturday 4th February 11:02

[mark4]

[quote=wioifoiee]

Ironically I got my race license last year just so I could do testing instead.


Yeah me to, primarily so I could drive Silverstone GP.

Unfortunately I went to book the 22.6 date - the only open pit GP test day this year not at £3K - and its been pulled from the calendar!

I sent a slightly stty email to the organisers and got a sympathetic call back. Doesn't change the outcome though for those without pockets deep enough to cough up thousands for a single days access to the track.

Maybe next year...