Silverstone - Formula Ford/Exige

Tesla · 1 Dec 2006 at 11:29

I loved my track day at Castle Combe last summer but felt it did not offer very good value for money.

I noticed that the normally £155 experiences at silverstone are now just £99 (over XMas)!

Has anybody done any of the driving events at Silverstone, how did you find them?

£99 seems quite good value for money, anybody else interested?

http://www.silverstone.co.uk/html/dr_special.php

EDIT- The Exige experience is so tempting... Details on that too please

kaiowas · 1 Dec 2006 at 11:42

Quite a lot of people here did them last month as part of the deal to supply Silverstone with their Exiges. Wasn't eligible for it myself so I didn't get to go but feedback from everyone else seemed positive although as they didn't pay for it it's probably not the best recommendation!

Cybershot · 1 Dec 2006 at 11:58

Do you work at Lotus, kaiowas? Next door neighbour just got redundancy

kaiowas · 1 Dec 2006 at 12:13

Cybershot said:
Do you work at Lotus, kaiowas? Next door neighbour just got redundancy

Yeah, I work there but i'm employed by a different company these days. Unfortunately redundancies are an occupational hazard around here.

siztenboots · 1 Dec 2006 at 12:26

Tesla said:
I loved my track day at Castle Combe last summer but felt it did not offer very good value for money.

What was wrong with the TD ? If you used your own car then part of the attraction of them, to me at least is to understand the car better. I would love to take the VX out at Brands in the near future. I don't know why, but somehow I just enjoyed my day at Snetterton much more than previous airfield days.

Tesla · 1 Dec 2006 at 16:26

siztenboots said:
What was wrong with the TD ? If you used your own car then part of the attraction of them, to me at least is to understand the car better. I would love to take the VX out at Brands in the near future. I don't know why, but somehow I just enjoyed my day at Snetterton much more than previous airfield days.

I did it in a Formula Ford and didn't feel like I got much track time.

eidolon · 1 Dec 2006 at 16:30

Don't do it.

If you go round Silverstone in an Exige it will be very bad for your wallet as you'll *need* one afterwards!

Test driving an 111R proved bad news for my bank account. I'm scared to test drive an Exige S...

Tesla · 1 Dec 2006 at 17:28

eidolon said:
Don't do it.

If you go round Silverstone in an Exige it will be very bad for your wallet as you'll *need* one afterwards!

Test driving an 111R proved bad news for my bank account. I'm scared to test drive an Exige S...

I thought you would post something like this

I cannot get insured on one yet so no chance of buying one at the moment.