Mega meet idea

Curborough is fine if you're not looking to max your car, which to me at least gets boring quickly. It's about a mile in length I think and if you all have 4 or 5 lap runs you get plenty of time to experience your car in a relatively controlled and safe environment. There is plenty of parking and I'm sure Scoobydoo can add his 2p having organised the site previously. Common sense on the day and some rules and everyone will have fun and leave having had a good day. A track day sounds great as does an airfield but personally i think that's a bit ambitious and if I'm honest open to going wrong based on many of the less experienced people who may wish to attend. There are plenty of options to do track days and they tend to attract the same faces, this event sounds to be a little different in ambition but getting people to swap cars unless they are happy to do so is open to going very wrong for one or two people.

Just my views.
 
Sod letting other people drive your car, I am barely comfortable in my own on a track let alone in someone else's, daft idea after having seen some of the consequences of car lending at Vmax and what not.
 
hurfdurf said:
Sod letting other people drive your car, I am barely comfortable in my own on a track let alone in someone else's, daft idea after having seen some of the consequences of car lending at Vmax and what not.
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My feeling exactly, I've only ever trusted a few people to drive any of my cars (thats with me as passenger). Parents, and two best friends who I've known years and can trust.

Think about it, what if someone like DannyW or Twoblacklines or any other random guy. You better believe I ain't letting Nath near my cars. :p
 
Surely if you're in the passenger seat when someone else is driving your car they're not going to do anything stupid? Can't really see it ending in tears tbh, especially in an airfield-type setting.

In the unlikely event of anyone wanting a go of my 850 t5 or mazda 3, they'd be welcome to it. Although perhaps that's because combined they're worth 1/10 of certain other members cars :p
 
When I said 'driving' I meant going into town, going for a drive/hoon. Obviously things are safer on a airfield but no guarantee.

Bruntingthorpe would be a great place to go for this sort of thing, near as damn it in the middle of the country. :)
 
bruntingthorpe really is a poor idea

would you want your car wrung out to the red line, in every gear, all day?

the place is so damn big that anything under 100mph will feel like jogging speed. almost every car will feel slow.

if a driver gets it wrong, its going to be at a silly speed, does it have to be spelt out that getting it wrong at silly speed is not a good thing?
 
Matt82 said:
bruntingthorpe really is a poor idea

would you want your car wrung out to the red line, in every gear, all day?

the place is so damn big that anything under 100mph will feel like jogging speed. almost every car will feel slow.

if a driver gets it wrong, its going to be at a silly speed, does it have to be spelt out that getting it wrong at silly speed is not a good thing?
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It is not as if you will be doing 140mph all the way round donington though is it??

We could do anything basically. 0-60 runs, 0-vmax, all in a safe enviroment and if your a car enthuasist but can't drive in a straight line/keep steering wheel straight then you must be pretty damn poor at driving. :o

I love track days but could never take on my cars on, I wouldn't be scared of myself crashing, more worried of some ***** in a bus/caravan smashing it round bends like there is no tomorrow (eg nurburgring).
 
Blackhawk47 said:
It is not as if you will be doing 140mph all the way round donington though is it??

We could do anything basically. 0-60 runs, 0-vmax, all in a safe enviroment and if your a car enthuasist but can't drive in a straight line/keep steering wheel straight then you must be pretty damn poor at driving. :o

I love track days but could never take on my cars on, I wouldn't be scared of myself crashing, more worried of some ***** in a bus/caravan smashing it round bends like there is no tomorrow (eg nurburgring).
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youre definitely missing the point. you can be into cars, you can be a very competant driver, but if you jump behind the wheel of something considerably faster than youre used to, you could have great car control, but misjudge your speed once and you really could come unstuck

as for 0-60 runs, like housey said, all that stuff will become dull really quickly

plus brunters is such a hgue open space, it would be a waste as you couldnt have more than a couple cars on there are once as multiple cars flying in multiple directions is another mountain of fail

youll get into far less trouble at curby, garanteed
 
HI there

Well up for this!

1. The Meet - Brilliant!
2. Drag racing - Definetely!
3. Airfield - NO, airfield track days absolutely pulverise car tyres due to an airfield having a different surface and I know people who have destroyed a set of tyres in one event.
4. No one is thrashing my car though, passenger ride no issues. :)
 
Just go to the ocuk donington track days then...not really sure what you want.

You seem to want to be able to do 100mph in a small area such as a tesco car park. :p
 
Matt82 said:
bruntingthorpe really is a poor idea

would you want your car wrung out to the red line, in every gear, all day?

the place is so damn big that anything under 100mph will feel like jogging speed. almost every car will feel slow.

if a driver gets it wrong, its going to be at a silly speed, does it have to be spelt out that getting it wrong at silly speed is not a good thing?
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Last time I was there I was a passenger in an Ultima, he got it up to 188 on the long straight :P I agree the place is too big, plus I can imagine getting permission would be difficult.
 
I'm up for it Matt, as long as you let me power slide your lovingly restored M3 - I always wondered how much more driftable they are compared to my old 328...... :p ;) - I jest ,but,you see the point, I'm sure.

Nice idea for a meet, it would invariably end in tears for somebody alas...... :(
 
Depends when/where it is!

Annoyingly I work at an empty airfield, will they let me take my clio on it? Will they hell :/
 
A day at Curborough with car sharing encouraged but totally at the discretion of the owners would work well. You'd only have one car out at a time too so it'd be much more social than a trackday.
 
kaiowas said:
A day at Curborough with car sharing encouraged but totally at the discretion of the owners would work well. You'd only have one car out at a time too so it'd be much more social than a trackday.
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The way I see it is that someone who'd take out someone else's car would do it on the understanding that they'd not do anything to it that they wouldn't like done to their own

If someone can't get their head around that then don't participate. I'd like to think that amongst a bunch of car-guys that basic level of sense would not be hard to achieve

The whole point of the exercise is to experience other cars you'd not normally have access to so you can form real opinions rather than the usual propagation of internet myths
 
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