Single seater or enclosed wheel car for track days ?

[Gcrawle1]

Hi guys, I live in Essex. I am thinking of buying a car for track day use for me and my 21 year old son for a bit of fun. Looking to spend around 9 or 10 thousand. Thinking that it would be track only and trailered.

In an ideal world that would be a single seater formula ford or such. Based on the fun of driving single seaters in experience days. However I dont believe there is access to many track days with that type of car. Can you tell me what's Available. I think the only real use for single sweaters is on practice days and think we would probably feel a bit hounded by some of the faster guy's trying to set fast lap times. Interested in your understanding of availability and experiences.

I would prefer rear engined rear drive lightweight, therefore I think the best type of car might be and older Sports 2000, radical club sport or bike engined kit car. With enclosed wheels we could go to pretty much any track day.

Interested in your views

Regards Graham

[HustleRussell]

Open wheels will limit your options. Caterham might be best of both worlds.

[Trev450]

As above. Open wheel cars are very restricted and if you opt for test days you will need an ARDS licence for many of them.

[Steve57]

[Gcrawle1]

Thanks for the responses, sounds like the thinking is aligned to mine. That even though the thought of a single seater is appealing the reality is that for track days you are limited.
I like the radical picture, is that a prosport ?

Any more opinions would be welcome

Thanks Graham

[Steffan]

Gcrawle1 said:

Thanks for the responses, sounds like the thinking is aligned to mine. That even though the thought of a single seater is appealing the reality is that for track days you are limited.
I like the radical picture, is that a prosport ?

Any more opinions would be welcome

Thanks Graham

Friend of mine runs a Hyabusa lightweight Westfield in racing and that is one heap of fun. Total cost was around £10,000 to build from new inc IVA. Certainly the most responsive track car I have driven or been passenger in it is two seater and the wide bodied car and I have driven an awful lot of kit cars in 50 years of kit car driving. It is NOT really suitable for road use although legal on the road it is geared to max at 100 MPH so any cruising would be noisy to the point of no fun. But strictly possible which may be helpful. Good luck with your quest I thoroughly recommend it.