Newcomers Track Day @ KH April 18th
Discussion
Folks,
Anyone one up for a spot of track tuition at 4.00pm Wed 18th April knockhill before the season properly kicks off?
Its open to complete novices and or more experienced folk who have yet to drive at KH and will allow you to make much better use of your first proper venture out on track.
I have arranged to go with some of the RS boys and there are six of us so far.
Basic Itinerary:
-approx 2.5 hours on site
-classroom briefing 1st of all
-1st hand tuition in the pace car with an instrucor to talk you through the track and show you the correct racing line to take.
- follow the pace car in your own car - again picking up the racing line
- then around 30 mins track time on your own.
Price is £79 which is reasonable given the one to one instruction on offer.
If your up for it, drop me a line or phone Tracey at knockhill on 01383 723337 and ask her about the 'newcomers track session' booked under the name Brian Stewart.
Cheers,
Simon
Anyone one up for a spot of track tuition at 4.00pm Wed 18th April knockhill before the season properly kicks off?
Its open to complete novices and or more experienced folk who have yet to drive at KH and will allow you to make much better use of your first proper venture out on track.
I have arranged to go with some of the RS boys and there are six of us so far.
Basic Itinerary:
-approx 2.5 hours on site
-classroom briefing 1st of all
-1st hand tuition in the pace car with an instrucor to talk you through the track and show you the correct racing line to take.
- follow the pace car in your own car - again picking up the racing line
- then around 30 mins track time on your own.
Price is £79 which is reasonable given the one to one instruction on offer.
If your up for it, drop me a line or phone Tracey at knockhill on 01383 723337 and ask her about the 'newcomers track session' booked under the name Brian Stewart.
Cheers,
Simon
tpivette said:
will it all be supercaresque stuff that turns up ?
Im a bit scaried i might turn up in the wrong sort of motor - firebird - and get laughed off.
Im a bit scaried i might turn up in the wrong sort of motor - firebird - and get laughed off.
Not at all mate, There will be a handful of Foci Rs's a Civic Type R, anf probably a colection of Loti etc.
Bring yourself along!
Hi folks 
Glad you all had a good time. Would have liked to have chatted to more of you but I guess there were more important issues like
to be done!
Have to say I was very impressed with both the standard of driving and the ability of some of you lot - especially as this was a Newcomers event
Not sure what happened to the silver S2000 but he managed to give my mate in the black Civic a big scare and at the apex of the hairpin the chap in the blue S2000 seemed more intent on demonstrating his drift skills than making a clean exit....
Anyway, a top evening all round I think. Was really pleased with the performance of my car on its first ever track outing - harrassing some of you Lotus boys
and the fact that it made it home in one piece.
There should have been four Foci RS' but two had to pull out at the last minute. Still it was good to have two out on the track. Anyway, a big thanks to Brian Stuart for giving me the heads up (prompting me to post it here) and the subsequent discount
Incidently, that Cobra was mightliy impressive. Poor chap must have been freezing though!
Cheers all
Simon
Glad you all had a good time. Would have liked to have chatted to more of you but I guess there were more important issues like
to be done! Have to say I was very impressed with both the standard of driving and the ability of some of you lot - especially as this was a Newcomers event
Not sure what happened to the silver S2000 but he managed to give my mate in the black Civic a big scare and at the apex of the hairpin the chap in the blue S2000 seemed more intent on demonstrating his drift skills than making a clean exit....
Anyway, a top evening all round I think. Was really pleased with the performance of my car on its first ever track outing - harrassing some of you Lotus boys
and the fact that it made it home in one piece. There should have been four Foci RS' but two had to pull out at the last minute. Still it was good to have two out on the track. Anyway, a big thanks to Brian Stuart for giving me the heads up (prompting me to post it here) and the subsequent discount
Incidently, that Cobra was mightliy impressive. Poor chap must have been freezing though!
Cheers all
Simon
Edited by ASBO on Thursday 19th April 12:19
BrianJ said:
Thanks for replies - will look out for Exiges at future days. I too have no track insurance.
Was the Cobra the one that the Classsic Car Club rent out?
Was the Cobra the one that the Classsic Car Club rent out?
No it was a privatly owned car that the owner built himself. As I recall he was an englishman who had recently relocated up north. Think he said the car was running a 4.6 Rover V8.
I was behind him for the Instructor runs and when breaking for the first turn, the exhuasts were popping alternate flames from each side of the car as he came down the gears
Also liked the Saab 9000 that was there. Did anyone notice that it was rather quick on the straights?
Think the Maptun(sp?)tuned motor and the small matter of 340bhp with 450f/lb had something to do with it....
kneedoon said:
I would love to go back again, a bit worried about doing a proper trackday, are there alot of cars on track at the same time ? The amount on Wed was perfect
Cant comment on actual numbers but I should imagine that KH will only allow a set amount of cars on at a time, so as to avoid constant traffic.
By all accounts the days that KH themselves run and the SIDC/RS days are all very well organised and usually without incident.
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