Donington 3rd December

[brillomaster]

Anyone else going on this? Been looking forward to this for ages as the last track day of the year, and the most prestigeous circuit we've been on so far (previous best was cadwell)

Having looked at the track it looks perfect for a fairly powerful 328i, lots of nice 3rd gear sweepers and fast straights. I just have to be braver in the braking zones - normally start feathering the brakes long before i need to - im guessing the chicane will be braking from around 105 to 40?

Its with Javelin trackdays - very nearly full, and looks like a good mix of cars. Look out for us! (no really - you might want to give us a wide berth out of tighter corners - the tail is a bit lively!)

Cheers,
Brillo

Edited by brillomaster on Sunday 14th November 15:21

[terryb]

I'll be there Brillo - let's hope it's a dry day

[Monty_M100]

I`m booked on too, looking forward to it.

Not done a day with Javeline before and looks like there could be 80 cars booked in How are the Javeline trackdays? as i`m also thinking of booking the cadwell day in January

[brillomaster]

I like em! the last one i went on was at cadwell a month ago and was pretty crowded with 60 cars, but the track time was very well managed and there were very rarely queues to get on the circuit (might have been because it was a bit wet tho)

the organiser Colin is a great chap - priority for the day is utmost safety, well marshalled and dont tolerate bad driving. standard of driving very good as well - overtaking etiquette is very good.

I really hope Donington is dry! although doesnt look as bad to drive in the wet as cadwell was!

[Monty_M100]

Thanks for the reply.

Roll on the 3rd then

I better get on with cleaning my Disc up and bleeding the brakes


See you all there

[Steve H]

brillomaster said:

I really hope Donington is dry! although doesnt look as bad to drive in the wet as cadwell was!

It's worse, very slippy so treat with caution if it is wet

Steve H

[NorthernExposure]

how many cars does a TDO usually have for a trackday at Donny?

[terryb]

75 to 80 is fine

[Scamper]

i will be there in my 964 C4...going with a friend in his Noble..bit of a trek from Swindon though.

this will be my first circuit hopefully i wont be holding too many of you up!!

[Elderly]

NorthernExposure said:

how many cars does a TDO usually have for a trackday at Donny?

If it's a sessioned day, it used to be 3 sessions with 30 cars in each (ie 90 cars) .
If it's open pit lane, then 60 used to be the polite maximum number.

[terryb]

Scamper said:

i will be there in my 964 C4...going with a friend in his Noble..bit of a trek from Swindon though.

this will be my first circuit hopefully i wont be holding too many of you up!!

pah - you're half way there already - 180 miles from Pompey!!!

[g40steve]

Steve H said:

brillomaster said:

I really hope Donington is dry! although doesnt look as bad to drive in the wet as cadwell was!

It's worse, very slippy so treat with caution if it is wet

Steve H

We had fun at a very wet Donington did we not Steve.
That wet it got stopped!!!

[NorthernExposure]

Elderly said:

NorthernExposure said:

how many cars does a TDO usually have for a trackday at Donny?

If it's a sessioned day, it used to be 3 sessions with 30 cars in each (ie 90 cars) .
If it's open pit lane, then 60 used to be the polite maximum number.

might be a little bit busy then....

[Steve H]

g40steve said:

Steve H said:

brillomaster said:

I really hope Donington is dry! although doesnt look as bad to drive in the wet as cadwell was!

It's worse, very slippy so treat with caution if it is wet

Steve H

We had fun at a very wet Donington did we not Steve.
That wet it got stopped!!!

I think they've improved the drainage in a couple of places now so that should be fine I think.

You were doing just fine in the MX5 Steve but the wet grip (or lack of) does seem to catch a lot of people out at Donny

[Monty_M100]

Snow or No Snow, thats the question

[51mes]

Just watch the pit exit - it blends in straight onto the racing line on the way onto redgates - ran pit exit at britcar night race in october - and boy there were one or two near misses with cars coming onto the pit straight at speed and guys coming out of the pits being too cautious.. scary at times...

Have fun out there though - it's cracking circuit...

Simes.

[Birdthom]

I'll be there with a few other guys in a mixture of two e30 production racers, a bog standard e36 318s, an e46 m3CS and an Elise. Some of our lot are pretty experienced, a couple will be total novices, so we'll be a real mixed bag! Looking forward to it.

[Monty_M100]

51mes said:

Just watch the pit exit - it blends in straight onto the racing line on the way onto redgates - ran pit exit at britcar night race in october - and boy there were one or two near misses with cars coming onto the pit straight at speed and guys coming out of the pits being too cautious.. scary at times...

Have fun out there though - it's cracking circuit...

Simes.

Don`t they wave you on when it clear? They do on a LoT day

[Birdthom]

Now cancelled according to the Javelin website.

[Monty_M100]

Yep, got an email and a text to the mobile phone. Glad they made an early decision.

Edited by Monty_M100 on Wednesday 1st December 22:50