Post by alf on Oct 1, 2020 16:09:54 GMT
Does anyone have any experience of this? I've been fishing around looking for some sort of trackday which is also instructional, something where I can get some decent track time and my partner can have a first go on track but actually learn something and feel she is being looked after not thrown into a busy trackday, or just nursing someone's supercar carefully around a track on an experience day. I could sort something with Bookatrack and their Caterhams as I know then well, but at this time of year in a Caterham and on a busy normal trackday it might not be ideal for a beginner.
I looked at Thruxton as its so local - even a skidpan session would be a good start - but a ONE HOUR personal or family group skidpan session there is £299. The experience days teach you nothing and are too short. Then I found the Lotus days - something I had never seen before - they have amazing reviews on trip advisor. Bronze/Silver/Gold/platinum days from £399 are on offer, the cheapest one having tours, classroom instruction, and three 20 minute track sessions with 1-2-1 instruction which is way more than many such events.
They also do an a "Lotus License" for £1699 over three days, which sounds to me like a brilliant way of getting back into the whole track thing if I got a trackday or race car again in the future. It's a lot of time and 1-2-1 instruction. Much as I loved the Palmer days the emphasis was on going out in lots of different cars, thrashing them silly (people were spearing off left right and centre) with little real instruction in a small number of laps, and setting a time to boast about before moving onto the next one. I'd prefer more laps in the same car and more instruction and time to reflect, to work on skill, rather than be jumping into different cars.
Anything else anyone recommends?
I looked at Thruxton as its so local - even a skidpan session would be a good start - but a ONE HOUR personal or family group skidpan session there is £299. The experience days teach you nothing and are too short. Then I found the Lotus days - something I had never seen before - they have amazing reviews on trip advisor. Bronze/Silver/Gold/platinum days from £399 are on offer, the cheapest one having tours, classroom instruction, and three 20 minute track sessions with 1-2-1 instruction which is way more than many such events.
They also do an a "Lotus License" for £1699 over three days, which sounds to me like a brilliant way of getting back into the whole track thing if I got a trackday or race car again in the future. It's a lot of time and 1-2-1 instruction. Much as I loved the Palmer days the emphasis was on going out in lots of different cars, thrashing them silly (people were spearing off left right and centre) with little real instruction in a small number of laps, and setting a time to boast about before moving onto the next one. I'd prefer more laps in the same car and more instruction and time to reflect, to work on skill, rather than be jumping into different cars.
Anything else anyone recommends?
