Drift Days 2010?
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Have a look on here they run around 5 drift days a year at Oulton Park http://www.trackaction-online.co.uk/phpBB2/ Sign up as a member and you will get a Email when the first day goes on sale I think it's march
These guys are real professionals (they're quite good at drifting too 
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http://driftone.co.uk/
Tell'em I sent you and they might throw some extras in for you.
)http://driftone.co.uk/
Tell'em I sent you and they might throw some extras in for you.
There's quite a few places that do car-park drifting round cones but Oulton isn't one of them. We use the low friction drift stages that allow novices and drivers with unmodified rwd and 4wd cars to drift with ease but without mullering a set of tyres every half hour.
As you can see they are properly laid out courses with a variety of corners and sequences, as far as I know it's pretty much a unique setup.
The feedback we get from these days is always great, people come along sometimes with mixed feelings about whether it will suit them but they invariably go away with big daft grins and looking forward to the next one! The drivers get lots of track time and where on the road you might get a bit of a slide going on the occasional roundabout when nobody is looking, here you will be sideways all day and at the end you will have done less than 1mm wear on your tyres - it's hard to believe but that's how it works
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Steve H
As you can see they are properly laid out courses with a variety of corners and sequences, as far as I know it's pretty much a unique setup.
The feedback we get from these days is always great, people come along sometimes with mixed feelings about whether it will suit them but they invariably go away with big daft grins and looking forward to the next one! The drivers get lots of track time and where on the road you might get a bit of a slide going on the occasional roundabout when nobody is looking, here you will be sideways all day and at the end you will have done less than 1mm wear on your tyres - it's hard to believe but that's how it works
.Steve H
aww999 said:
Can you have fun with an open diff car at these events or do you need an LSD? I would like to take my Fury on one but I don't have an LSD and it tends to just wheelspin in a straight line out of corners rather than going properly sideways.
Caterhams are a regular site, heck there has even been an Atom doing a drift day! So you should be fine 
I`m doing one with Mazda-On-Track on 30th Jan. They run them @ Finmere and you don`t need to have a mazda to take part. Worth looking at ?
http://www.mazdaontrack.co.uk/car-control-days-56-...
http://www.mazdaontrack.co.uk/car-control-days-56-...
Wh00sher said:
I`m doing one with Mazda-On-Track on 30th Jan. They run them @ Finmere and you don`t need to have a mazda to take part. Worth looking at ?
http://www.mazdaontrack.co.uk/car-control-days-56-...
I'm interested in booking one of these up, as sadly Oulton's superb facility is too far from me to be worth considering ... for the moment at least.http://www.mazdaontrack.co.uk/car-control-days-56-...
I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has run at the Finmere site.I was all ready to book up on Friday, however have delayed until Monday as a mate is checking his availability for the same day. I had a look at the small number of videos on youtube this morning, and am having second thoughts.
The surface, from the videos, appears to be quite rough, broken, rutted and pot holed. I'd appreciate a personal report on the venue from anyone that has been there .... Would also be interested to hear from anyone that has used another drift / control / fun venue in the south.
Good links for drift days:
www.dwyb.co.uk - Drift What Ya Brung; held in Santapod, full calendar on the site
http://www.driftworks.com/forum/other-news-events/... - Mallory Park are holding events this year! More info on it in this thread!
There are also days being held at Buxton Raceway which is also a good track
www.dwyb.co.uk - Drift What Ya Brung; held in Santapod, full calendar on the site
http://www.driftworks.com/forum/other-news-events/... - Mallory Park are holding events this year! More info on it in this thread!
There are also days being held at Buxton Raceway which is also a good track
Edited by LozzyS on Saturday 20th February 13:30
Oh forgot to mention:
http://www.driftworks.com/forum/faq-new-members-pl...
that has the full list of the events for this year
...If anyone can make it to Mallory though, do it! It's a new track open this year for drifters and it needs support in these early days so it can keep going. Very cheap for a fun day out on a fast track
http://www.driftworks.com/forum/faq-new-members-pl...
that has the full list of the events for this year
...If anyone can make it to Mallory though, do it! It's a new track open this year for drifters and it needs support in these early days so it can keep going. Very cheap for a fun day out on a fast track
t11ner - spot on. ive done a drift day at oulton in my 130i and it was an absolute blast. didnt have any noticeable wear on my tyres at all and the course was superbly laid out and, dare i say it, easy to get on with.
apart from the obvious fun that can be had from going sideways in relative safety, the amount you get out of learning how your car bahaves at and beyond the limit is invaluable and makes you, i feel, a better and safer driver on the road
my car is totally standard and with no lsd either, and it was superb
apart from the obvious fun that can be had from going sideways in relative safety, the amount you get out of learning how your car bahaves at and beyond the limit is invaluable and makes you, i feel, a better and safer driver on the road
my car is totally standard and with no lsd either, and it was superb
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