Track day cost (when taking your own car or bike)

Bike:
Tracktime: anything from £80 to £200
Insurance: no point for what it covers really, rather spend the cash on crash/engine protectors
Fuel: about £30
Tyres: £200
Usually do oil & filter change before hand so around £30-40

And thats just minimum :p
 
Class 04 said:
What do you drive?

And did you drive through a large puddle? :)
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SEAT Leon Cupra R, and no I drove it excessively hard and caused oil starvation to the bottom end of piston 3.

So, my only word of advice would be that if you are going to take your own car, either overfill the engine each time you go out (mine was overfilled), or get a baffled sump (I will be doing this next time).
 
Donington Feb 08.

I paid £130 for tracktime, no insurance, £50 on helmet and 2 tanks of fuel so £85 ish.

edit: had lasagne and chips too which was about £5:p
 
Tim said:
Donington Feb 08.

I paid £130 for tracktime, no insurance, £50 on helmet and 2 tanks of fuel so £85 ish.
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This, only, my tyres were fried as well, surprisingly not the rears, just the fronts, tyres have lasted me another 6 months but there at the limit now.
 
It helped that I was already running Ferodo DS2500 pads and decent Bridgestone Potenza.

I think an oil change is advised before tracking your car too.
 
insurance doesn't count on track. i've raced for 6 years with no insurance, it just relies on you being able to account for your own damage. there are insurances out there but they're for idiots with no respect. 'claim culture'
mallory costs about £90 and brands hatch about £250 on a bike i think.
then just add to that consumables like tyres, brake pads etc. i used to get through a set of tyres a day at £220 a pop apparently!!! :eek:
 
When we say track time and are giving prices, is that for a whole day?

And is it possible to ride/drive without destroying your tyres?
 
Booner! said:
Why do people not insure themselves for the day?
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Most people just push their destroyed bike/car onto the road and then claim off their road insurance :P

When I highsided my motorbike at a trackday the paramedic who picked me up said I should push my bike onto the road and do the above :eek:

Apparently it is quite common.
 
I would have thought insurance would be more use for when the brakes fail on my beat up old Mondeo and I plough straight through the Veyron in front ...
 
Class 04 said:
When we say track time and are giving prices, is that for a whole day?

And is it possible to ride/drive without destroying your tyres?
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Certainly is, to be honest I've never lost more than 1mm of tread on a car after a track day (admittedly they weren't open pit so I think I got 6 x 20min sessions). You definately won't need a set of 4 tyres afterwards though.

All depends on the car too of course.

Fuel and the cost of the trackdays are all I really budget for to be honest. Tyres and brakes will wear out more than driving on the roads, however if they start off pretty decent you certainly won't kill them. Although nearly dead tyres are very good on a dry track as they don't overheat.
 
paradigm said:
If you even have to ask this, trackdays are NOT for you.
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see i did the nuburgring in the summer, did over 100 miles on the track and my kumho ku31s had lightly feathered shoulders and i wasnt giving the car an easy time at all. mainly i was held back by my lack of knowledge of the track. you dont have to destroy them
 
paradigm said:
If you even have to ask this, trackdays are NOT for you.
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Why is it a time trial competition with other people on a track? Or just somewhere to learn how to drive your car fast in the proper environment.

I just find track days accelerate wear. If they were low to start with at the start of the day then you might have problems getting home. You only really struggle when you have tyres that are orientated to road performance rather than sustained high work rate. This is where Ive found the Bridgestone stuff to be good. T1R's on the back of my Teg lasted much longer than the front for obvious reasons. I think I had got to 20k road with about 14 track sessions.
 
Maybe Leon R's wear tyres quicker. I think he cooked his brake pads too.

As above, my Bridgestone Potenza were superb.
 
If you mean for when you get a bike, chances are you will use about half the life of the rear tyre in a day on the track. So if the rear is low, it will be shot by the end, but a new tyre would easily do another. Fronts don't take as much abuse, probably use about a quarter to a third of the life. This is of course assuming a sticky road tyre, not a sports touring one like I would normally use on the road. E.g. my SV tyres will last about 8k rear and 12k front so I would get more track days out of them than a sticky road tyre which lasts 4k on the rear and 6k front. Either way, you definitely won't use as many as helpimcrap during a RACE, as they would be slick tyres designed to only last for a couple of hundred miles.
 
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