The Mighty Thruxton - Good Videos?

[Thurbs]

Hi all.

I am at Thruxton next weekend with the CSCC and have booked a few track sessions on the Friday. It is my first time there so don't know the lines, where to carry speed, where to late apex and so on.

I found this video of Ollie Hancock going quite well around it and he seemed (to me) to be taking all the right lines....

Does anyone have better examples or sage words of advice?

Cheers, T.

[loggyboy]

Back part of circuit inc Church is one of the best set of fast bends I have experienced.
can bite though - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iFT_ORFgjU

[Mitch911]

I also watched that video before racing there first time last year.

If you can get down there on the friday, local instructors take people out and provide some good advice on reference points around the circuit.

Video here from the Mag 7s race: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYikJhe8I4o&t=...

[NJH]

Tony Maryon is one of them. He will be racing I suspect with you guys in Future Classics, watch him like a hawk as Thruxton is his local patch.

Edited by NJH on Thursday 13th April 18:41

[Matt97]

Can't help with any good videos but I wish you good luck OP for this weekend, I'll be spectating as it's a local circuit for me.

[Jacobyte]

No video I'm afraid, but a couple of pointers:

Campbell/Cobb/Seagrave complex: Very late turn-in to Campbell, much later than you think, hold the apex and try to stay right, so that you have a decent entry into Cobb. If you take a "traditional" line of going wide on the exit of Campbell, you severely compromise your approach into Cobb and you'll be all at sea, losing all your much-needed momentum for the fast run to Seagrave, Noble and Goodwood.

Chicane: On Lap 1, stay leftup Woodham Hill and while everyone is bunching up on the right for the chicane, you can go around all of them, as there's plenty of room there, and as it's uphill you can brake very late. You can also use lots of kerb if your setup is good.