Police Cars on Track Days

[BigMonk]

Seen this a few times, where uniformed offices in cars with battenberg have joined in at a track day.

Just curious, whats the purpose of it? Public relations, further training, piss up at tax payers expense?

Example photo I nicked from Track Days thread.



I notice theres three occupants in it, your not normally allowed rear passengers at a track day are you?

[mad4amanda]

In 3 years working at brands only ever seen it once with bikes on a liveried blade and essex bought a battenburg scooby as part of a jap day. Normally they are part of a drive safe type campaign. Never seen them with blues on unless a photo shoot.

[davepoth]

BigMonk said:

Seen this a few times, where uniformed offices in cars with battenberg have joined in at a track day.

Just curious, whats the purpose of it? Public relations, further training, piss up at tax payers expense?

Example photo I nicked from Track Days thread.



I notice theres three occupants in it, your not normally allowed rear passengers at a track day are you?

I like how the cars behind are making no attempt to overtake.

It's a good idea really. They're trying to point out that they get that the point of having a nice car is to use it, but there's a time and a place, and that's at a track day.

[jsg612]

I'd imagine for high speed driving training.

You would if you could, looks like wicked fun.

[wackojacko]

It would be priceless to blow a plod car into the weeds ........ and not get nicked for it

[seagrey]

Scream past them sideways,all four wheels smoking whilst using your phone

[OlberFKWJ]

Prefer them doing the initial high speed training on track than on the roads.

[tertius]

Is that actually a track day? No one is wearing a helmet.

[Acheron]

Driving with foglight(s) on during tha day...

[wackojacko]

tertius said:

Is that actually a track day? No one is wearing a helmet.

Could be a PR excercise or looks like a 4x4 sports saloon sighting day or something it's basicaly a really LAME "trackday"

[miniman]

tertius said:

Is that actually a track day? No one is wearing a helmet.

Seriously doubt it. It's Castle Combe, they ran a fleet of Scoobys and regularly ran Scooby "dealer days" up there.

[m444ttb]

Lunchtime parade laps at an action day probably. The Police are often at these and other CC hosted shows. It helps remind the dheads attending that screaming through the local villages on the way home may be a bad idea!

[TheInternet]

Acheron said:

Driving with foglight(s) on during tha day...

You might find that they are merely part of the emergency lights, only one of those lovely foggits is beaming.

[WeirdNeville]

It won't be further training, all police driver training is done on public roads.

It's PR- usually part of 'drive safe' and 'ride safe' type days. A good idea IMO - there are important messages to get out to certain sectors of the motoring community. It's not a 'piss up', and I doubt you'd see them doing lap
after lap.

Still wouldn't mind that job though!

[driftdaddy]

what that looks like to me is a police car going up avon rise at castle combe on a parade lap, which they do at every action day. basicaly anyone who want to go and do a lap of the track can, as long as they dont exeed a certein speed iirc it's 30 mph. i think they mainly do it's to sell more track time to people who will be unsure


ps: hence the no helmets, no overtaking allowed either

Edited by driftdaddy on Friday 4th March 22:26

[Leebo77]

This particular photo is from Rallyday 2009 at Combe. Wiltshire Constabulary took to the front of a parade lap of the Richard Burns limited edition Imprezas (the RB5 and RB320 in the picture are both build number 1 and belong to Richards collection). The owners (me included - and my son in the passenger seat) followed behind this. It was a parade lap, at 50 mph....

....most of the time.


Me...

Edited by Leebo77 on Sunday 6th March 21:29