Thursday 13th November 2003

Track Day Car Hire

You don't want to use your own car on track so what's the alternative?

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An increasing number of companies are offering cars for hire on track days. Some are race cars which teams are trying to get some off-season return from and others are dedicated all round hire cars.

Two new companies have appeared on the scene recently. The first is Cars4Tracks which has two Caterhams available - a Superlight R and a Superlight R Race Car. Or, if you're after a tin top then Online Racing have a 944 available.

Neither are cheap to hire and it's only really a cost effective option if you share the day with some friends. The 944 weighs in at £595 for the day whilst the Caterhams come in at £599.99 or £649.99 for the race car. On top of those costs you'll also need to buy space on a track day.

In the scheme of things it's still cheaper than buying a track car yourself and incurring the maintenance and consumable costs yourself, but it's a bit scary when the costs are so obvious with the hire option!

Cars4Tracks are offering 10% off to PH readers though until the end of 2004!

Links : www.cars4tracks.co.uk , www.onlinetrackdays.com

[Don]

Bound to be a big new industry. Why own and insure when you can just hire. If you get an open pit lane day and there's two of you sharing.

[dannylt]

Hardly the first on the scene - bookatrack have been doing this for a while - Pug 205 and a bunch of Caterhams. Allegedly maybe even a Radical next year

[Mark Benson]

I had one of the BaT Caterhams at Donington on Tuesday - I decided that as I'd had 3 sets of tyres in 12000 miles on the S2000 I would try hiring a Caterham for half a day and only use my own car in the afternoon.
Considering a new set of tyres for the S2000 is at least £350, using someone elses car seemed like a good idea. A decent thrash around a track for a day takes a lot of life out of the soft Bridgestones fitted to the S2000, even in the wet.

It was well worth the money, and I shall be doing it again in the future - get keys, thrash car, hand keys back, walk away.

[sccbishop]

Mark,

Was it C4T SL? If so, I had it at Cadwell on the 2nd November.

I thought it was also a great thing to be able to do - turn up, get in, drive, hand the keys back, go home.

[WelshDragon]

Hi Guys

Track Action also do this as well.

www.track-action.co.uk

Dale