Track day virgins.......special event

jungle-jim · Post by **jungle-jim** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:43 am

kev@tkl wrote:yes i can see the point of not wanting to damage your pride and joy as i wouldnt want to damage mine but these things are built for a purpose and we tune them for a purpose and you will never enjoy them fully on the road you would be silly to even try, the track is the best and safest place to test your pride and joy and 99% of people on the track are also in the same frame of mind that they dont want to damage there own pride and joy despite how little or how much it costs compaired to others, thats just imo

true, but you would be pretty pissed off if a bloke who was a bit inexperienced took out your

kev@tga · Post by **kev@tga** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 8:49 am

jungle-jim wrote:
kev@tkl wrote:yes i can see the point of not wanting to damage your pride and joy as i wouldnt want to damage mine but these things are built for a purpose and we tune them for a purpose and you will never enjoy them fully on the road you would be silly to even try, the track is the best and safest place to test your pride and joy and 99% of people on the track are also in the same frame of mind that they dont want to damage there own pride and joy despite how little or how much it costs compaired to others, thats just imo

true, but you would be pretty pissed off if a bloke who was a bit inexperienced took out your

sleepyhead · Post by **sleepyhead** » Sat Mar 03, 2007 4:59 pm

I've been on two proper trackdays and one at an RAF base (that one didn't count for much as I was more of a passenger that day than driver :P ) and the first I was a mega novice and well..felt totally out of place and daunted by the queue of cars behind me. Second time round I wasn't such a newb, got tuition for

alexb · Post by **alexb** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:18 am

I think this is a good idea, I'll share the RX-7 laps of fear with Gareth

At least he's had a rebuild within the last 70k miles!

Cheers,
Alex

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 11:24 am

[quote="alexb"]I think this is a good idea, I'll share the RX-7 laps of fear with Gareth ]

Hopefully you wont get a wet leg though mate

Heater Matrix was leaking before anyone makes any comments !!!!!

FoxySTI · Post by **FoxySTI** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:49 pm

Im very interested in this idea, as i havnt ever done a true track day in any car, but it seems completly my type of thing, and would be good to be shown round ( as oposed to shown up!) by people who know what they are doing.

Il keep watching this space as soon as i get some free time

duncan · Post by **duncan** » Mon Mar 05, 2007 4:05 pm

This looks like being a sell out already :thumb: - fantastic idea and would be great to run in the evening of a club meet too

raj_uk · Post by **raj_uk** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 12:16 pm

I'd be up for a newbie track day

I did my first track day at Donington on Monday and it made me realise how little I know about actually driving quickly

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:38 pm

Rather than a purely novice day, maybe a sessioned day for novices, intermediate and advanced?

That way there should be plenty of the more advanced drivers show up and hopefully, make themselves available for questions, advice, pax laps, etc.

As for worrying about getting your P&J written off by a 2 bob Cavalier, I think there's more chance of that on the public roads, so what do you do there?

On the road, I treat everyone as a potential idiot and drive, watching for them to do something unexpected. It's no different on track, the idiots are just faster :-D

martin · Post by **martin** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:13 pm

i would be up for it but would have to be a weekend or evening thing for me. I have good experiance on a track raceing but thats in the oval form and raceing bangers :twisted:

here is one i done earlier :twisted:

the car would of easy raced again but sppedworth banned it as it was structually unsafe

I know you can do a rent a banger who would be up for a big power banger session :twisted: