Opinions on renting out cars for track days.

[kazste]

idea was to rent the car out for shared track days so i would be taking the car and sharing the time. the idea around the £2k excess was to basically never trigger the insurance in order to keep costs minimal ie i worst case and new car needed charge customer £1200 ish £200 costs and £1k replacement (i will assume the mention of me being a con artist was in jest).

as for liability insurance already have this so would be a small increase rather than a new policy.

I agree it is looking like a non starter, but then better i asked on here than had a crack at it and waste my money! will probably go down my other train of thought which is buy something, share it with a mate on the assumption that they pay a proportion of my trackday costs.

[21TonyK]

You're really over thinking this, just book an airfield day. No tyre walls, huge run offs etc Go enjoy yourself and forget hiring cars out. Not going to work unless you are hiring something people aspire to drive ie. something expensive.

[therealpigdog]

I understand where you are coming from as I was a bit nervous taking my TT out on track.

My solution was for a couple of us to buy a cheap track car and share it. It's not yet on track but we've already got a few mates who want to borrow it occasionally and will chip in for parts. Hopefully it will be good cheap fun.

[Cavey]

On a well run track day you should not see any car to car contact. I've done 40+ days and not seen it once (although I'm sure it does happen). I have seen cars damaged by hitting barriers/tyre walls, but that's down to the driver (usually) and whether they're driving within their limits. Not that you will really need to, but you can set out to drive defensively on track days as you would on the road (i.e. avoiding accidents, rather than just not causing them), and still have a fantastic day.

You have a car that is already brilliantly set up for track use, forgiving when driven hard, will be quicker than a lot of other stuff out there without you neededing to be Jensen Button, and which is easy on brakes and tyres.

Check out this lot http://www.motorsport-events.co.uk/ Really well run events, mostly on airfields so lots of run off if you get it wrong, and very little to hit. For a first time I would avoid their Saturday days (always busy), and avoid Abingdon as it's often busy and attracts a lot of really quick cars. Hullavington woulld suit you well as very seldom full, and as well as the circuit they have what is basically a skid pan for people to use one at a time to test the car's limits. Just off the M4 so easy to get to (even if not on your doorstep).

Lift's too short - you should do it!