Track days in Victoria

[braddo]

Does anyone here go on track days in Australia? I was wondering how often they might be held within a few hours of Melbourne. It looks like there are 3 or 4 tracks within a few hours' drive of Melbourne but the tracks' websites don't seem to mention track days like what are so common in the UK.

In the UK you just book a place with a track day organiser and turn up. Is it similar in Australia or do you have to be a member of some sort of motor club and/or join the race cars at test days, perhaps?

I'll return to live in Australia one day but I have serious misgivings about being able to enjoy cars on public roads there. Going on a track day every couple of months would appear to be the only way I would be able to actually enjoy driving a fast car.

Is the stringent speed enforcement creating decent demand for track days?

The UK and Europe are such liberating places to drive in comparison.

Cheers.

[braddo]

papahet said:

... the UK was a terrible place to drive...

Meh, time and a place and all that.


Thanks for the response. Sounds like plenty of opportunities are out there but just some different ways and means of getting on track. Maybe the motorsport option will be viable too. I like the idea of a VH Commodore track car, stripped and caged like what everyone does to E36 BMWs over here... MX5 or Caterham/clubman type car more likely though.

[braddo]

Google [bot] said:

I rode shotgun with a friend at a Phillip Island trackday in January via the Maserati Club Australia, this should answer a lot of queries:

http://www.maserati.org.au/Resources/Documents/P%2...


Awesome track, awesome day, awesome people.

Thanks for this.

Did many pure road cars attend? Would they really enforce the stuff in the 'eligible vehicles' section like a battery sticker, headlight tape/film, throttle return, 2 bonnet catches?

If so, it sounds like it might be better to have a dedicated car for track fun, rather than have a road car that you also take on track days a couple of times a year. Then again, I would have assumed the majority of owners in the Maserati club would have standard road cars that they want to have some occasional track fun with?

[braddo]

As you say, looks awesome!