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Never knew that, but what makes you think more people would turn upto a sprint day? Both technically the same thing but one is a go kart track and the other is a proper track. Why dont we take a poll, see what most people would like to do and go from there? (if people seriously want a track day?)
 
SgtTupac said:
Never knew that, but what makes you think more people would turn upto a sprint day? Both technically the same thing but one is a go kart track and the other is a proper track. Why dont we take a poll, see what most people would like to do and go from there? (if people seriously want a track day?)
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Cost for a start, if there's a few of you, you can do a sprint day for half the price of a trackday. It's also less intimidating, one at a time on a small track is much better if you've not done it before than going round a big track with other much faster cars. It's not really going to appeal to the trackday regulars, but those of us who would like to try it for the first time, it seems ideal.
 
andi said:
Cost for a start, if there's a few of you, you can do a sprint day for half the price of a trackday. It's also less intimidating, one at a time on a small track is much better if you've not done it before than going round a big track with other much faster cars. It's not really going to appeal to the trackday regulars, but those of us who would like to try it for the first time, it seems ideal.
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Pretty much what i think. I'd certainly be interested in something like this :)
 
andi said:
Don't see what the argument is, whats the alternative, hire out a proper circuit like Oulton? Ever seen the kind of costs for that?
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Well Combe is ~£5k. So yes, it's all down to preferance and cost at the end of the day. You are right though, there isn't really an argument here. If people are happy to drive on a tiny track because it only cost £40, then that's fair enough.

I was merely pointing out the facts about Haynes :)
 
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AVE IT!!!!!!!
 
sorry for trashing your thread mate :)

I'm seriously up for organising a day at Haynes if anyone's interested, Yes - its small and twisty with Zero run off - but its still good fun, even for just the novices (me included) :)
 
Id be too afraid of stacking it im afraid, so wouldnt go as theres not much run off for when i get it a bit wrong....
 
That would be the advantage of Curborough, not a very exciting circuit, but run off areas, and is fairly central too.

IIRC, Chenko stuck his scoob in the run off area at Curborough :D
 
Violent-J said:
I'd love to track my car, never done it before. I reckon I could learn a lot.
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Wont the micro show everyone up?

I'd really fancy a track day although I'd much rather go around a big proper circuit with some areas where you can get up too silly speeds.
 
Gilly said:
Yes, thats right. An Austin Allegro with Alonso in it will beat an F430 with <insert random half-decent but not world class driver here> won't it :)
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See, now your just being silly, I made a rather good point in my previous post :rolleyes: ;).

How many times have you seen people on public roads with supposed powerful cars really screw up due to not knowing what to do (cornering technique for example). I'm sure you've managed to go quicker in your Clio against some cars, that on paper, should wipe the floor with you ;).

Also remember this is a Saxo meeting, your going to get a wide variety of driving skills (and by wide I mean wide). I used to keep up with a few VTS's when I had my VTR without too much trouble. Do you really think that was down to me being an uber driver (I wish :) ) or the VTS drivers just not knowing how to drive "properly".
 
How many owners of a supercharged VTR would you expect to not be able to drive? :confused:

Your point was fine, but saying everything is on the driver and doesn't matter what car you're in is about as far off the mark as you get without facing the other way :p
 
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