How long have you been trackdaying?...how many?

[philevo6]

As title.

Ive been doing it 6 years and 23 trackdays. (1 car)

Alot of brake pads!!

Starting to do less and less now,cos of high prices (fuel etc etc)...6 mpg round track doesnt go very far..

[mmm-five]

10-15 years ago I was doing 1-2 a month all year round, and preferred the wet, snowy, icy days better as it levelled the playing field between me and the Caterwesticals.

Must have done 50 or so in the first 3 years, but other things became the priority and I dropped to less than 6 a year, with a couple of 'Ring trips thrown in.

[T180985]

only started last year and managed 2 car days and 4 bike days, this year ive done 2 car days so far with another booked in a few weeks and hopefully will get started with a few bike days in may/june

[philevo6]

mmm-five said:

10-15 years ago I was doing 1-2 a month all year round, and preferred the wet, snowy, icy days better as it levelled the playing field between me and the Caterwesticals.

Must have done 50 or so in the first 3 years, but other things became the priority and I dropped to less than 6 a year, with a couple of 'Ring trips thrown in.

Jeez....thats some going!!!

[8pot]

Been doing them for around 12 years in variety of cars, v8 westfield, M3, audi s3 and s4 2 litre 16v mini.

I now organise them myself though Apex Trackdays

Mike

[mmm-five]

philevo6 said:

Jeez....thats some going!!!

There are people who started the same time as me, attended most of the same events, but have carried on with them at the same pace.

It's the maintenance/consumables that killed me, as I didn't want to take a stripped out track car everywhere and did most events in my daily drivers which were a Corrado VR6 and then an E34 M5. The M5 ate a set of pads every 3 events, did 6-8mpg, and could eat a set of tyres in one event, so it was costing about £1000 a day.

The events got more expensive, fuel got more expensive, my free time became less (which meant I had to go on the more expensive weekend dates), and in the end I decided I couldn't support that many events.

If I'd had a Caterham from day 1, then I'd probably still have some cash, but I have nowhere to keep more than 1 car, so my track car has to be my daily driver - which also means that I'm always driving a fast daily driver.