Track days - are we in a golden era?

[Itsallicanafford]

A point of discussion really. At present, you can book onto the many and varied track days at a wide variety of race tracks, all for a relatively small amount of money. Once there, without any special tuition apart from a briefing and only a sighting lap to asses your initial competence, you are allowed free reign to drive as fast as you like, against like minded individuals, most of whom are not insured and some of which are driving cars that would not get close to passing an MOT but are passed fit as they pass a noise test.

Cannot go on, can it? Are we a major court case away from all this coming crashing down?

[Itsallicanafford]

Insurance is an interesting one. You can drive on track without any insurance. Although the majority of crashes involve just yourself and our own car, car to car contact does occur. What would be the outcome of the killed banker scenario which is often trotted out when discussing the ring and TF days. If it was proven to be your fault, insured or not, what would be the outcome if negligence was established on your part? And could that negligence be as simple as driving an unroadworthy (I.e no MOT) car.

Again, just a discussion point.

[Itsallicanafford]

5517 said:

I believe in the UK a British Judge would say the banker knew the risks and that negligence on a track day would be near impossible to prove.

I have no connection to the legal profession but to play devils advocate, let's take the MG taking out that Elise at Cadwell. It's not hard to show a hundred videos of people taking the corner correctly. The MG looks pretty negligent in comparison. Replace the Elise with a Caterham who is slightly further into the corner, you have a 40mph impact, side on, on the drivers side. Let's put our banker in the Caterham, I think driver, TDO and track would all have their day in court. Could be wrong, you tell me?