Driver's Experience Gift Pack..... WHICH CIRCUIT??

[anonymous-user]

for anyone reading this thinking mmm that sounds like a good idea; please don't. i thought thruxton was one of the worst corporate days ive done and ive done most. the single seaters are very restricted and you can expect to spend the vast majority of your lap bouncing off the limiter in top. also general standard of driving, unsuprisingly, is very low, get stuck behind someone who cant drive and thats your laps knackered, overtaking errs on the side of extreme caution (rightly). very frustrating day.

[Don]

francisb said:

for anyone reading this thinking mmm that sounds like a good idea; please don't. i thought thruxton was one of the worst corporate days ive done and ive done most. the single seaters are very restricted and you can expect to spend the vast majority of your lap bouncing off the limiter in top. also general standard of driving, unsuprisingly, is very low, get stuck behind someone who cant drive and thats your laps knackered, overtaking errs on the side of extreme caution (rightly). very frustrating day.

Have you got track experience, though? Last time I went to Thruxton I did it to accompany the wife - who fancied driving on track but wanted to do it in a "safe" environment with an instructor etc etc. She found track days terrifying as the pace is much higher and you are "on your own".

Now I DO drive on track fairly regularly. Which meant in the little Lotus Elise I drove I passed absolutely everything all of the time - my instructor was OK with that - as I told him in advance I was well used to track driving but not there to make his day hard.

Sure a regular track day is better - but if you aren't used to track driving, don't want to use your own car, and want or need the hand-holding of an instructor at all times then Thruxton isn't a bad option.

My tip - go for the Elise course. Its got the most laps for the money.

[fozzi]

francisb said:

for anyone reading this thinking mmm that sounds like a good idea; please don't. i thought thruxton was one of the worst corporate days ive done and ive done most. the single seaters are very restricted and you can expect to spend the vast majority of your lap bouncing off the limiter in top. also general standard of driving, unsuprisingly, is very low, get stuck behind someone who cant drive and thats your laps knackered, overtaking errs on the side of extreme caution (rightly). very frustrating day.

The single seaters are restricted but that is done for a reason, to stop complete novices destroying each and every car out there... not to mention that Thruxton Motor Centre does not want to have a stream of ambulances coming and going all day long!!!

Virtually everyone doing the event day was a novice and yes, some were particularly slow, but given the pissing rain, water on visor, misting etc... I'm not entirely surprised, at times it was very difficult to see where you were going!!!

Apart from karting, this was my first single seater experience and each lap was quicker than the last, but the only place where the rev limiter really irritated me was on Brooklands heading down to the chicane, but given the fun I was having round the rest of the circuit, e.g. getting sideways out of Seagrave... so what?

As a result of my experience, I now want to go on to the next step and do some proper single seater driving.. but for most, the taster is all they will ever do and they have gone home happy.

>> Edited by fozzi on Monday 27th March 12:32