19th Sept. - Croft Track Day

[hobo]

Bookings now under way,

£135 (all day) for 1st driver
£25 extra driver
£5 passenger
£5 helmet hire

email tvrbob through his email for a booking form

Surely some of you lot must be interested ?

[hobo]

Well I thought a few might be interested.

Its quite funny really, you get a hundred people who will turn up to park thier cars in a field all day on a sunday, but only about 10 interested in actually doing what thier cars are made for, going fast on a track (and its local).

Bizarre

[hobo]

Still places available.

[hobo]

You can have a bit of a laugh in a Mini, but you chose to buy a Ferrari, and myself TVR.

With regards to tyres. You are going to shred them whether you are driving fast on the road or fast on the track, although obviously greater speeds are obtained on the track & therefore this happens. Ditto for pads, etc.

BUT, and its quite a big but, the track is the safest way to see what your car is capable of, i.e, speed/handling, etc, which is probably the reason for the original purchase.

Insurance. Unfortunately like yourself, my insurers do not cover track days, but this can be obtained elsewhere (for whatever value you require - not the value of the car), or you can not bother with it. Assuming you use your head then this is probably not a requirement (as most insurers do not cover gearbox damage, which is probably the most likely apart from crash).

In summary, everyone to thier own, but just seems a little odd to me that huge amounts of people do not endulge in a bit of tracking from time to time, in what are race-bred machines. After all, when you purchase these kind of cars you do expect spend a little more than the norm of tyres, etc.

p.s You could always come watch/have passenger rides