Good track day experiences

dirtychinchilla · 7 Dec 2025 at 06:22

Morning all,

I’m looking for a recommendation for a small track day my wife and I could do.

I’m not thinking something where you cruise around in a Lambo. More like a session where you take your own car, though I’d not use mine, or even better, something more like racing with an instructor in the car teaching you the ropes.

We live near Guildford, so ideally somewhere not too far north.

Thanks!

dirtychinchilla

JonRGV250 · 7 Dec 2025 at 06:27

Try an MSVT novice day.
I started with one and it’s a great way to ease yourself into track days.
It does however get very addictive, and expensive.

Car Track Days | MSVT

MSV Trackdays offers car track day events to suit all levels of experience and ability across the MSV circuits, owned and run by us: Brands Hatch, Donington Park, Snetterton, Oulton Park, Cadwell Park and Bedford Autodrome.

car.msvtrackdays.com

mjt · 7 Dec 2025 at 07:37

https://www.palmersport.com/

We did an OcUK event there 15(?) years ago and it was epic.
Solid instructors, a wide range of cars and you get a go in an F3000 single-seater at the end. Not cheap but fantastic experience.

They have different programmes so could be worth a look.

Bear · 7 Dec 2025 at 09:53

mjt said:
https://www.palmersport.com/

We did an OcUK event there 15(?) years ago and it was epic.
Solid instructors, a wide range of cars and you get a go in an F3000 single-seater at the end. Not cheap but fantastic experience.

They have different programmes so could be worth a look.

Pretty sure I went to the same one and I was blasting down the country roads to this event and I wasn’t sure where I was going and ended up following you and we both went the wrong way. I might be mistaken, the guy I was following was driving a BMW coupe of some sort IIRC.

Nasher · 7 Dec 2025 at 10:24

Bear said:
Pretty sure I went to the same one and I was blasting down the country roads to this event and I wasn’t sure where I was going and ended up following you and we both went the wrong way. I might be mistaken, the guy I was following was driving a BMW coupe of some sort IIRC.

I'm not far from it. Good routes around there, but the roads are of course in a terrible state now. Also speed limits being cut and average speed cameras popping up everywhere :/

mjt · 7 Dec 2025 at 15:04

Bear said:
Pretty sure I went to the same one and I was blasting down the country roads to this event and I wasn’t sure where I was going and ended up following you and we both went the wrong way. I might be mistaken, the guy I was following was driving a BMW coupe of some sort IIRC.

That's the one. My sense of direction is not the best

Sui · 7 Dec 2025 at 15:06

MB world was decent when we got a session for my brother

dirtychinchilla · 7 Dec 2025 at 17:25

Thanks everyone

they definitely aren't cheap!!

Diddums · 7 Dec 2025 at 17:33

dirtychinchilla said:
Thanks everyone they definitely aren't cheap!!

I'm dying to do one, if you fancy some company give me a shout

InkZ · 7 Dec 2025 at 17:39

I've done mercedes Benz world at a corporate do. That was fun. Got to drive the AMG round the track with an instructor, do the 4x4, a bit of drifting and driving through water to play with stopping distances. Not your typical track day.

dirtychinchilla · 7 Dec 2025 at 18:19

Diddums said:
I'm dying to do one, if you fancy some company give me a shout

Same! Does your wife want to go too??

Have you looked at the prices though. £235 upwards! Unelss I'm missing something

Tykey · 7 Dec 2025 at 19:43

Probably too far for OP but I did 1 at Anglesey circuit in my old car a Sierra Sapphire Cosworth in 2000 which I sold for 3K in 2001, it's up for sale on Ebay now for 40K, great fun, thoroughly recommended, just make sure your car is in good order because it'll get hammered like nothing you can do on public roads.

sovietspybob · 8 Dec 2025 at 09:30

It does get very addictive quickly, i live pretty close to Anglesey circuit so i used to go there a lot. They used to have a club you could join which did evening sessions from 6-8pm for £30 but that was 10 years ago now so not sure if they do that.

Worth looking at local circuits to see if they do similar?

I found full days were too much for me, too long for me and i got tired and it was very very hard on the car too, plus you went though so much petrol it made the day very expensive.

If your car is in good order no reason not to do a few laps in it, just be aware it'll eat tyres and brake pads, i've gone through a brand new set of brake pads in 1x 2 hour track evening before trying to drive it hard.