Focussed Events
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AWK-53

Original Poster:

34 posts

207 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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Anyone know whats going on with Focussed Events, Ive used them before and they've been great but they've got a list of trackdays with no prices against them on their website. Have phoned up several times and just get told they're gona release the prices in a couple of days. I would'nt mind but I got a voucher for Christmas and my cars gona be out of action from May and really wanted to do Donington 11th March.
Can't help but think it will be cancelled as times too short to fill it? Incidently this also happened with a date they were advertising for Silverstone in I think November last year that I was planning to do, they said yeh it's going ahead, just sorting prices etc and then it just disappeared from their website.

As said I've used them before and they've been great so hopefully it's just a mixup somewhere

RemaL

25,087 posts

260 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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No Idea used them for bike TD's and they have prices up for these.

666g

5 posts

175 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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Successfully completed a track day with them at Oulton Park at the end of last month, and I've received my confirmation for Donnington next weekend, so I assume they're still ok!

philevo6

236 posts

228 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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Used them quite a bit....fine,only a couple of times they switched a trackday to a bike trackday which was out of order.

Usually ok.

V8mate

45,899 posts

215 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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I must admit, I took a look at their website on Friday and came away thinking they'd gone bust.

roddo

584 posts

221 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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we have aprox 23 cars booked on for Donington, Its almost fully booked.

winshent

1,174 posts

221 months

Sunday 19th February 2012
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I've done two with them in the last fortnight.. No issues, great guys and as organised as any other track day company I've been with.

E36GUY

5,907 posts

244 months

Monday 20th February 2012
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roddo said:
we have aprox 23 cars booked on for Donington, Its almost fully booked.
I'm looking forward to it!

chris7676

2,685 posts

246 months

Monday 20th February 2012
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How can 23 cars be almost fully booked at Dony unless you are sharing it with someone?

cytefx

199 posts

257 months

Monday 20th February 2012
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I should be there on the 11th smile

AWK-53

Original Poster:

34 posts

207 months

Monday 20th February 2012
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Ok thanks for the feedback guys

So if people have already booked for Donington March 11th would they mind saying how much they paid? Focused Events don't seem able to tell me how much it will cost, I guess people have just reserved a space until they're told the price?
Tried to book online as I've done before to see if that would give me a price but it doesn't seem to be working, guess I'll have to call them again tomorrow!

DiscoColin

3,328 posts

240 months

Monday 20th February 2012
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chris7676 said:
How can 23 cars be almost fully booked at Dony unless you are sharing it with someone?
Weren't FE the TDO that did events in sessions where there were 3 to the hour for one group of cars and 2 of bikes???

roddo

584 posts

221 months

Monday 20th February 2012
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Its aprox £130 we got a discount for taking 20+ cars

Donington is open pit lane on the 11th march

shim

2,051 posts

234 months

Tuesday 21st February 2012
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They have been criticised for mixing bikes and cars on sessions and for cancelling car dates last minute and even cancelling and rescheduling for bikes.

I guess they run the costs close to the wire and have to make ends meet, just run the risk of upsetting a few punters along the way.

Overall the days are pretty good, plain spoken and I think you'd say budget, liked the cost of the day.

I use them and have had some good days.

Synchromesh

2,428 posts

192 months

Tuesday 21st February 2012
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cytefx said:
I should be there on the 11th smile
E36GUY said:
I'm looking forward to it!
See you guys there.

There's a thread running on the day here.

ETA: I did Snetterton with Focused on Saturday and the day seemed to go well so I wound't have any qualms with them as a TDO.

cytefx

199 posts

257 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2012
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Yep u started a seperate thread after this one, whilst this was already mentioning the 11th wink

Cheep day at current cost as other days for donny look to cost a lot more.

g40steve

1,218 posts

188 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2012
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Done a few events with Focused & always had a good time.

I am one of the 20+ who are booked on the 11th @ Donington .

Compared to some of the TDO's they are very reasonable.

Looking forward to many more events this yrdriving

AWK-53

Original Poster:

34 posts

207 months

Wednesday 22nd February 2012
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Finally got booked in and looking forwards to it yay

fatboy21

204 posts

175 months

Thursday 1st March 2012
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i called a few minutes ago to find out how many cars they book onto their Oulton Park day this weekend. Since its my first time to Oulton Park, what with the barriers and the rain forecast, i thought it was a reasonable question to ask - but frankly if she had said 'they dont say but its not busy' i wouldn't have pushed her. Nevertheless she launched into passive aggressive mode, as if i had been asking a state secret, and informed me that their own terms and conditions forbid telling the public how many people they book onto the events (oh i see, you have written down on a Word document that you cant tell anyone - good reference for explaining why).

Its a shame she wasnt nice and chatty. Its only one phone call. Perhaps she was having a bad day.

g40steve

1,218 posts

188 months

Thursday 1st March 2012
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^^ Does it really matter?