Racing Car Experience

[blueg33]

I have a friend that wants to buy a racing car driving experience from Argos!

It strikes me that there must be better days than the Argos one for a similar price. Can anyone recommend a website/company.

Thanks

Nick

[t11ner]

Argos will obviously be farming the event out to one of the main operators - probably Driversdreamdays, Treatme, Everyman or Sixth Gear.

[A.Wang]

Your mate can have an "experience day" in my Porsche 944 race car - 200 quid for 10 laps around Silverstone GP excluding insurance. How does that sound?

I'll throw in the bacon butty and for a few quid extra, one of the racing drivers from my team will sit with him and give some instruction too.

[TF240Cup]

Take a look- www.TrackFocused.co.uk

[andye30m3]

could find the one you fancy and contact the circuit direct, cut out the middle man

Although if your aloud to drive the 944 properly it might be a better day than a few laps in a ferrari etc with limited revs.

[t11ner]

Once again perpetuating the famous myth that all the driver experience companies set rev limits

[andye30m3]

t11ner said:

Once again perpetuating the famous myth that all the driver experience companies set rev limits

I can only speak from limited experience but the three I did many years ago were all rev limited and when I did my ards test at goodwood 3 or 4 years ago I was very very easily passing the ferrari's and diablo in a diesel alfa.

[t11ner]

The overtaking doesn't surprise me, so long as we can credit you with the ability to drive and you are comfortable on track then you could pass a lot of first-timers in Ferraris on a pushbike but it's not because they are rev-limited. First time on track most drivers have neither the confidence or the ability to lap faster than a well driven saloon car. Also, lots of drivers change up at about 3000 without even being asked because the noise and power makes them think it's time to do so, often I have to put my hand on the stick or we'd be in 6th when we should be in 4th .

None of the three places I regularly instruct for directly limit the revs. We are told not to allow the cars to get murdered which seems pretty reasonable but so long as the driver is developing an understanding of braking and cornering as well as accelerating there's no need for set limits - mostly it's down to the judgement of the instructor and mostly it's a safety issue when people are being held back.

Steve H

[ian_touring]

my OH bought me a Racing Car experience through Motorsportvision at Oulton Park, couple of years ago.
5 laps to learn the brake and turn points in a clio sport, not rev limited, then 5 laps in a single seater formula Palmer Audi, rev limited. Without the limiter i would have killed myself without doubt. Turned out it was limited in top gear to about 100mph.
Excellent experience all round, with great feedback. 5 laps was not really enough to learn the track IMHO.

[t11ner]

Fair point that, I'd forgotten about the limiters on those single seaters .