Castle Coombe track day from £28
Discussion
Anyone going to the Car & Car Conversions track day at Castle Coombe on Saturday 27th April?
£28 will get you entrance to the circuit for 2 people plus one 5 lap track session.
Extra track sessions can be bought at £18 each.
I'll probably take the S2 just to show the EVO / Max Power boys what the arse end of a proper car looks like!
Jas.
£28 will get you entrance to the circuit for 2 people plus one 5 lap track session.
Extra track sessions can be bought at £18 each.
I'll probably take the S2 just to show the EVO / Max Power boys what the arse end of a proper car looks like!
Jas.
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Going off at Quarry is not hard - it's a tough corner to get right.
Didn't someone write-off a Chim there either last year or the year before...? It was in Sprint. Very nasty. Guy was OK from what I remember. Quarry's reputation would have me backing off a bit. I'm no Michael Caine/Mike Jordan that's for sure...
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Going off at Quarry is not hard - it's a tough corner to get right.
I have got a great home video of a guy making a complete horses arse of Quarry in an Aston V8 Vantage.
It all started going wrong for him at the top of Avon rise, (braking hard over the brow into the left hand kink) and stopped going wrong when the rear end slammed into the tyre wall. The bloke was fine, if a little peeved. The session cost him 60 quid of which he was on the second lap, and god knows how much to get the Aston rebuilt.
I did a 180 at Gerrards, Mallory Park. As luck would have it the car following had a a video camera mounted, and he sent me a copy.
As long as there is no damage (!!!), losing control in a safe environment once in a while is an excellent lesson. A track without marshalls sounds simply dangerous
R
As long as there is no damage (!!!), losing control in a safe environment once in a while is an excellent lesson. A track without marshalls sounds simply dangerous
R
If you go, get out of bed early as my experience of CCC days at Castle Combe is that the max power boys can't get out of bed (has that anything to do with the max power girls???). In the past I have done a couple of seessions before 10am, then gone to quarry to watch the holigans and then done another session around 4pm when everyones calmed down.
The standard of driving is not very good, even with my headlamps ablaze I had people chop in front of me on the straight. One year I lapped everyone in the session gaining an extra lap, on a 5 lap session that shows you what some more experienced circuit day driving can do.
David
The standard of driving is not very good, even with my headlamps ablaze I had people chop in front of me on the straight. One year I lapped everyone in the session gaining an extra lap, on a 5 lap session that shows you what some more experienced circuit day driving can do.
David
Blimey, on look at the photos of that poor fella's Chim I think I will ease myself into this track day business by going to an airfield day to see what the car does when pushed first!
It never used to worry me hooning around circuits in fleet cars, but when its my own I feel a little more caution would be prudent!
Matt.
It never used to worry me hooning around circuits in fleet cars, but when its my own I feel a little more caution would be prudent!
Matt.
I think it's possible to spend an entire day without coming off the track. Just take it steady at first as you and the car get used to it and you'll find that by the end of the day your speeed has increased enormously.
Mind you, I've only ever managed one track day without a spin somewhere - so far with no more damage than a mil or two of rubber deposited on the track. Must learn to take my own advice
Mind you, I've only ever managed one track day without a spin somewhere - so far with no more damage than a mil or two of rubber deposited on the track. Must learn to take my own advice
I've done 2 or 3 of these CCC Castle Coombe track days and I know what everyone means re- poor driving standards, etc...
In CCC's defence, they are having a big clampdown on the tossers and are going to display photographs of cars that are banned from comming and will be updating throughout the day.
The trick is to recognise the tossers and stay clear of them at corners which isn't too difficult. As long as you drive within your own limitations and don't try to be a hero, you should be okay. As I have said, i've done a couple of these days already and have enjoyed them on the whole.
Jas.
In CCC's defence, they are having a big clampdown on the tossers and are going to display photographs of cars that are banned from comming and will be updating throughout the day.
The trick is to recognise the tossers and stay clear of them at corners which isn't too difficult. As long as you drive within your own limitations and don't try to be a hero, you should be okay. As I have said, i've done a couple of these days already and have enjoyed them on the whole.
Jas.
Russ Baker wrote his Tuscan off there last year.Gorgeous tall blonde with two nice motors was there - good driver too, when Russ went 'whump' she sprinted like an olympian athlete across the paddock area, leapt the armco...I said to er indoors - "don't tell me she's a ****ing paramedic too" - yep!, from some Swedish crash trauma special outfit! I'd hate to have everything going for me - wouldn't you?
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