Anyone from here at Donnington today? (May 17th - Evening)

[Gibbo205]

Hi there

So were any of you from here at Donnington today?
I was in the yellow 911 Carrera doing the evening session.

[FlyingTrotter]

Yep i was there for what was effectively a FunCup practice session - there were 19 cars each with several drivers very few using their mirrors but it did stay dry for us - were the funCups running during your evening session ?

[g40steve]

What a waste of time trying to enjoy your trackday with teams of cars grabbing last minute shake down!

Did you complain?

[FlyingTrotter]

It wasn't a disaster but I won't do another day like that - too many FunCups sat on the left hand side of the circuit not looking in their mirrors

Jonny knows it wasn't ideal but I guess the circuit should have had a test day for them the Friday before their race weekend

[Jubal]

It's extremely annoying sharing a trackday with a load of racers. The fun cup are about the worst too, due to multiple novice drivers and being fairly slow. Hope you moaned loudly in the day. There's no place for packs of them on trackdays and the organisers should take note.

[Gibbo205]

I did the evening session, so was only a few of them out by then and I was hugely quicker so passing was no issue. Infact I found it a superb evening and the car performed faultless with a fastest lap of 1:23 with traffic.

[jonnyleroux]

I'm acutely aware that it wasn't the perfect track day. Unfortunately, we signed the contract for the day before realising it was the day before a funcup race meeting, and already had a dozen or more bookings before the funcups starting taking places.

Yes, in hindsight it would have made sense to either run in sessions or as an exclusive test day for the FunCups, but unfortunately, we'd already sold seveal places (including a large group booking for our r300 rentals) prior to finding out about the funcups so the reality was we just had to manage the situation. In all honesty it didn't go as badly as it could have - I gave one of the harshest drivers briefings I've ever given and I'd like to think (lack of mirror use aside) it did the job.

Jonny
BaT

[Gibbo205]

jonnyleroux said:

I'm acutely aware that it wasn't the perfect track day. Unfortunately, we signed the contract for the day before realising it was the day before a funcup race meeting, and already had a dozen or more bookings before the funcups starting taking places.

Yes, in hindsight it would have made sense to either run in sessions or as an exclusive test day for the FunCups, but unfortunately, we'd already sold seveal places (including a large group booking for our r300 rentals) prior to finding out about the funcups so the reality was we just had to manage the situation. In all honesty it didn't go as badly as it could have - I gave one of the harshest drivers briefings I've ever given and I'd like to think (lack of mirror use aside) it did the job.

Jonny
BaT

My only complaint would be that I booked a garage which was full of parked Ferrari's which were not even on track. Was not end of world as there were other free garages.

[FlyingTrotter]

Yep as I said in my original post could have been worse and agreed that was some briefing

[warobbo]

jonnyleroux said:

I'm acutely aware that it wasn't the perfect track day. Unfortunately, we signed the contract for the day before realising it was the day before a funcup race meeting, and already had a dozen or more bookings before the funcups starting taking places.

Yes, in hindsight it would have made sense to either run in sessions or as an exclusive test day for the FunCups, but unfortunately, we'd already sold seveal places (including a large group booking for our r300 rentals) prior to finding out about the funcups so the reality was we just had to manage the situation. In all honesty it didn't go as badly as it could have - I gave one of the harshest drivers briefings I've ever given and I'd like to think (lack of mirror use aside) it did the job.

Jonny
BaT

Then surely the price should have reflected the fact that it was going to be a less than perfect track day...we shouldn't have been subsidising fun cup testing, it should have been the other way round!

[Pork_n_Beem]

Funcup lap time around Donny is 1min 25 secs. They do have a top speed of 104mph though. I was running my engine in so limited to 4000rpm but still had to drive around other cars, notably black caterhams :-)

BTW, if you are so quick just drive around the outside, cannot imagine a Funcup driver complaining.

[jonnyleroux]

warobbo said:

Then surely the price should have reflected the fact that it was going to be a less than perfect track day...we shouldn't have been subsidising fun cup testing, it should have been the other way round!

Sorry Wayne, I don't understand your point. We had the same number of cars booked on the day as we would have regardless of the make/model/driver and everyone paid the same.

Out of interest, how many complaints did you lodge on the day regarding driving standards from the Funcups or otherwise? We respond to all complaints and removed 2 cars (6 drivers) from the day on Friday.

Jonny
BaT

[WhereamI]

It was an OK day, I've had better but also had worse. The funcups were slow and didnt see to realise it, but then there are also others that don't move over. Jonny's briefing was the longest and most detailed Ive sat through.

We do all of our track days though BaT and will continue to do so because jonny does at least sort out the problems that he can see and the ones that are brought to his attention.

[WhereamI]

Pork_n_Beem said:

Funcup lap time around Donny is 1min 25 secs. They do have a top speed of 104mph though. I was running my engine in so limited to 4000rpm but still had to drive around other cars, notably black caterhams :-)

BTW, if you are so quick just drive around the outside, cannot imagine a Funcup driver complaining.

Easy said but overtaking is meant to be by consent and you are supposed to move to the right and let people past. The funcups, in the main, just sat on the left of the track and didnt give way. It's a track day not a race.