Quotes from Track Day Newbies

[profstoff]

I'm preparing a magazine article, a Beginner's Guide to Track Days, and would like to include quotes from track day newbies. So if you have done your first track day recently (say within the last twelve months) can you e-mail me through my profile with your impression. Just a one-liner will do but please add when and where it was and what car you used.

Thanks all for your help.

[mmm-five]

"Fookin' hell" - me at Craner Curves at Donnington for the first time, doing 90mph in my M5 when a Caterham came flying past.

[phatgixer]

Corr!!! Calum is a driving God!

[poshgit]

".....i could see the whites of the eyes of the driver in the awesome 997 porsche behind me....."

.....sadly i could see them through my front windscreen because i was going backwards in my £1,000 BMW on a wet, slippery Bedford track as he was coming towards me in his nice '07 porsche .....

only my second trackday - does that count?

[phatgixer]

What is a "Billy"?

[Vixpy1]

Porsche 911 GT3RS driver to me on one of my first trackdays: 'The back of your car is on fire'

[r5gttgaz]

Porsche 968CS driver - "I wasted everyone"

[phatgixer]

r5gttgaz said:

Porsche 968CS driver - "I wasted everyone"

Don't joke. They ARE the fastest things on the track. By miles. The drivers are all latent Sennas. too.

[IGM]

What time does the racing start?

[shim]

phatgixer said:

Don't joke. They ARE the fastest things on the track. By miles. The drivers are all latent Sennas. too.

i think you have to prove how fast you are before you are allowed to buy one!

[deviant]

"Watch this!!!"

[boxsey]

I thought brake fade was myth. In actuality it's fookin' scarey!

[pugster]

"Tit".

As stated by my passenger when an over enthusiastic newbie in a 911 gyrated in the middle of Redgate having just pulled out of the pitlane for the siting laps.

Oh how we laughed.

[phatgixer]

"Why am I the only Ferrari out on track?"

[mgv8dave]

i am a driving god ...... said to myself ! when driving rwd for the first time in the wet
and having a bit of a rear end moment but held it together ..... just

[Whynot]

"That doesn't sound right"

15 seconds before a catastrophic engine failure 2nd lap out at the Nurburgring.

[edh]

"I didn't want to thrash my own car round a track"

Driver of Rental Yaris 1.0 his first trackday, Bedford 2006, in the signing on queue


The day was red flagged about an hour in to retrieve a Yaris that had rolled onto its roof

[Nurburgsingh]

" I've just done a sub 7min lap of the ring... I've only been here 10mins!"

[mgv8dave]

Nurburgsingh said:

" I've just done a sub 7min lap of the ring... I've only been here 10mins!"

quality !

[phatgixer]

Nurburgsingh said:

" I've just done a sub 7min lap of the ring... I've only been here 10mins!"

..and you wait 'till I get my hands on a 968CS. Then Bellof's record will be mine!