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Title: Track days
Post by: 1958steveflying on March 24, 2013, 04:55:24 PM: Does anyone in our community partake in 4 wheel track days ? What have you ?
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: nigelb on March 24, 2013, 07:51:43 PM: Quote from: 1958steveflying on March 24, 2013, 04:55:24 PM
Does anyone in our community partake in 4 wheel track days ? What have you ?

No....but there are a few of us who take part in these:

http://www.biopowered.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1103.0/topicseen.html

They're good fun...so I'm told
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: 1958steveflying on March 24, 2013, 09:20:14 PM: Quote from: nigelb on March 24, 2013, 07:51:43 PM
Quote from: 1958steveflying on March 24, 2013, 04:55:24 PM
Does anyone in our community partake in 4 wheel track days ? What have you ?

No....but there are a few of us who take part in these:

http://www.biopowered.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,1103.0/topicseen.html

They're good fun...so I'm told

Unfortunately speed limits are involved, I cant get my buzz on the road anymore since giving up 2 wheel madness.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: julesandtash on March 24, 2013, 09:45:11 PM: Quote from: 1958steveflying on March 24, 2013, 04:55:24 PM
Does anyone in our community partake in 4 wheel track days ? What have you ?

Only tracks of the dirty. muddy and deeply rutted variety - I suspect that is not what you were meaning though.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: RichardP on March 24, 2013, 11:23:16 PM: Quote from: 1958steveflying on March 24, 2013, 09:20:14 PM
Unfortunately speed limits are involved, I cant get my buzz on the road anymore since giving up 2 wheel madness.

Nipping down the autobahn is like a track day for me.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: thewormman on March 25, 2013, 12:20:47 PM: Mud is best

(http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg244/zukenstein/a6.jpg)
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: julesandtash on March 25, 2013, 02:05:42 PM: Yup, I have to agree

(http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/julesandtash/IMG_1725.jpg)
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: nigelb on March 25, 2013, 06:24:49 PM: Ah...I understand what you're after now Steve. I thought you were after a bit of alternative amusment.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: nathanrobo on March 25, 2013, 09:27:26 PM: How about a Caterham? That'd be a decent way to get the adrenaline pump! Nice and light to drag around too!
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: Head Womble on March 25, 2013, 09:29:56 PM: Quote from: julesandtash on March 25, 2013, 02:05:42 PM

(http://i471.photobucket.com/albums/rr79/julesandtash/IMG_1725.jpg)

A Caterham would sink in that much water.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: nathanrobo on March 25, 2013, 10:13:43 PM: It might float! Very light :D
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Post by: Head Womble on March 25, 2013, 10:23:55 PM: Can't see the tub sealing that well, sink like a stone once the bow wave comes over the top.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: 1958steveflying on March 25, 2013, 10:48:00 PM: Quote from: nathanrobo on March 25, 2013, 09:27:26 PM
How about a Caterham? That'd be a decent way to get the adrenaline pump! Nice and light to drag around too!

mmmmm not my type I don't think mate, probably out of my price range too. Still looking like an STI impreza.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: kamaangir on March 26, 2013, 03:26:14 AM: Always liked scoobys. They are not bad on a bit of the rough stuff with some decent rubber.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: 1958steveflying on March 26, 2013, 08:12:07 AM: Quote from: kamaangir on March 26, 2013, 03:26:14 AM
Always liked scoobys. They are not bad on a bit of the rough stuff with some decent rubber.

Cant do the rough stuff with my back unfortunately... So it will be all nice smooth circuits, closest to me being Rockingham and Mallory Park.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: kamaangir on March 26, 2013, 04:13:13 PM: Do you need a race licence if you want to do track days? What are the costs involved? I always fancied having a go.
Title: Re: Track days
Post by: 1958steveflying on March 26, 2013, 09:08:41 PM: Quote from: kamaangir on March 26, 2013, 04:13:13 PM
Do you need a race licence if you want to do track days? What are the costs involved? I always fancied having a go.

Normal driving licence, car with an Mot, and up to a couple of hundred for an open pit lane track day.