Donington Track Day
Discussion
Last week I entered my 1st track day in a TVR (my griff 500).
The conidtions were crap, cold and raining all day.
Went with Steve Guglielmi, how taught me a lots about my car, the circuit and myself!!
The car performed very well in Steve G's hands, too good!!! We were in the wet keeping up with a Porsche 911 turbo (new one) on race wets whilst on my std S02's.
Slightly different story when it was my turn, but held my own throughout the laps.
Had a couple of laps with a pink 911 on my tail, but left him for dead (including many scoobies) on the long start under the Dunlop bridge.
All in all, a very good day at only £60!!! Donington are running several more events throughout jan and feb this year at just £75 for the whole day with an open pit lane.
Enjoyed myself so much I will be entering the TVR Speed Champ next year.
The car definately benefited from fitting Nitron dampers with perimiter weighting, and I have no doubt using std dampers then the car would have been off everywhere.
Anyone else had any good / bad eperiences on track days etc?
Simon
The conidtions were crap, cold and raining all day.
Went with Steve Guglielmi, how taught me a lots about my car, the circuit and myself!!
The car performed very well in Steve G's hands, too good!!! We were in the wet keeping up with a Porsche 911 turbo (new one) on race wets whilst on my std S02's.
Slightly different story when it was my turn, but held my own throughout the laps.
Had a couple of laps with a pink 911 on my tail, but left him for dead (including many scoobies) on the long start under the Dunlop bridge.
All in all, a very good day at only £60!!! Donington are running several more events throughout jan and feb this year at just £75 for the whole day with an open pit lane.
Enjoyed myself so much I will be entering the TVR Speed Champ next year.
The car definately benefited from fitting Nitron dampers with perimiter weighting, and I have no doubt using std dampers then the car would have been off everywhere.
Anyone else had any good / bad eperiences on track days etc?
Simon
having nitrons and corner weighting myself in a week or so...i guess you rate them!
who did them?
peninsula are doing mine inc slight geometry changes, were there any done to yours?
tuition and laps with steve for £60-00?
BARGAIN!
i'd suggest you learn more in the wet...
PS i've found www.easytrack.co.uk very friendly with a good mix of poeple (45ish max), ability tracks and cars.
>> Edited by Guillotine on Sunday 5th January 15:43
who did them?
peninsula are doing mine inc slight geometry changes, were there any done to yours?
tuition and laps with steve for £60-00?
BARGAIN!
i'd suggest you learn more in the wet...
PS i've found www.easytrack.co.uk very friendly with a good mix of poeple (45ish max), ability tracks and cars.
>> Edited by Guillotine on Sunday 5th January 15:43
Guglielmi Motorsport fitted them including permiter weighting and geometry changes (including ride height) for £800!!! at the same time as my 36k service.
Steve is a close friend so his services came for free, and he has a vested interest in the car, given it has just be 'nitroned' the week before.
His view of the car as we speed round the circuit was very good and balanced for a road car.
The good thing about the nitrons is that they are adjustable, in the next couple of weeks Steve and myself will go out to a closed circuit and set up for wet road, dry road and track.
What more could a petrol head want and need.
Cheers
Simon
Steve is a close friend so his services came for free, and he has a vested interest in the car, given it has just be 'nitroned' the week before.
His view of the car as we speed round the circuit was very good and balanced for a road car.
The good thing about the nitrons is that they are adjustable, in the next couple of weeks Steve and myself will go out to a closed circuit and set up for wet road, dry road and track.
What more could a petrol head want and need.
Cheers
Simon
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