driving experience days, bruntingthorpe

[gaz4399]

does anyone have any experience with these, any good etc? any comments welcome.


for my 21st birthday last september my parents paid for a day driving some cars on track. tbh i am both very excited and bricking it in some ways. Anyway apparently it is their all singing and dancing package which incolves me doing the following.

4x4 experience

karting to get me started
drive lotus elise on track
drive impreza turbo on track
drive porsche 911 on track
drive ferrari 360 on track
and be a passenger in a lamborgini (maybe another super car, it depends on availability etc) at full chat


tbh i think it is an awesome bday pressie and since i got the tickets i forced myself to wait till the summer to book it for the better weather etc, and it is this sunday.

also as an added bonus they are paying for extra insurance cover so if something does happen i will not have to use their insurance which has a 2k excess. I now have no excess :y:

now i am fortunate enough to of driven some fast and nice cars in my past from my work etc. some examples include a genuine dodge viper 8000cc v10 rhd (silver with blue stripes ftw), cossie turbo powered kitcar (seriously fast), sti's, v8 jags, lotus elise, v6 clio etc. But the thought of putting some fast cars round the track not on public roads is a completely different ball game as a lot of you will know and i dont know how much to push it etc.

garry

[MiniGibbo]

Rally ones are ok but the others bore me done a few now so frustrating when you can't give them hell for leather!

[Peter_D]

How old are you? If you're under 25 then you are limited to 50mph on the driving experience days. If you're over 25 and have held your license for over 5 years then you can go as hard as you want

[swampy]

Rally ones are ok but the others bore me done a few now so frustrating when you can't give them hell for leather!

have to agree
have done both and the rally was better.
You wont be giving it that many beans, certainly wont be getting any where nearany rev limiters.
Have to say the supercars on the last day i did had seen far better days.

[CHIP]

How old are you? If you're under 25 then you are limited to 50mph on the driving experience days. If you're over 25 and have held your license for over 5 years then you can go as hard as you want

I took a Ferrari round Silverstone when i were about 18 and there were no speed limitations!

[french_baguette]

Really want to do one of these

[gaz4399]

How old are you? If you're under 25 then you are limited to 50mph on the driving experience days. If you're over 25 and have held your license for over 5 years then you can go as hard as you want

i hope you are joking, to be fair some of these places do have strict rules but i can assure you this one has no speed limit


I took a Ferrari round Silverstone when i were about 18 and there were no speed limitations!

:y:


as for the rallying comments your porbably right tbh

[Lewis]

Im doing an Aston driving day in 2 weeks and i hope i get a decent amount of time in the car. Sorry this comment was absolutly no use to you

[CHIP]

i hope you are joking, to be fair some of these places do have strict rules but i can assure you this one has no speed limit


Tbf, i'm like 23 in a couple of week, so we're talking probably nearly 5 year ago, things could have changed since then.

Im doing an Aston driving day in 2 weeks and i hope i get a decent amount of time in the car. Sorry this comment was absolutly no use to you

Usually only a small amount of time in my experience and from what other people have told me.

[Peter_D]

I took a Ferrari round Silverstone when i were about 18 and there were no speed limitations!

Yeah i just made it up so he would be disappointed thinking he can't go over 50mph in the Ferrari or Porsche LOL, would be gutting

To be honest you don't really need any tips about this as you will have someone guiding you at all times wont you? So anything you need to know then just ask the guy, and don't worry about anything

Sounds like it'll be an amazing day i'd love to do that

[gaz4399]

Yeah i just made it up so he would be disappointed thinking he can't go over 50mph in the Ferrari or Porsche LOL, would be gutting

To be honest you don't really need any tips about this as you will have someone guiding you at all times wont you? So anything you need to know then just ask the guy, and don't worry about anything

Sounds like it'll be an amazing day i'd love to do that

yeah that would be gutting and an utter fail if it was a limit of 60.

for the record i am 21 atm

i know we have a briefing thingy blah blah, as for someone in the car with me they havent said but im pretty sure they will be tbh

[K17NEY]

My old man did one of these last year and they would only let him floor it in top gear in the ferrari and lambo.It was pretty wank tbh, Like putting megan fox in you bed and saying you can only neck her.

[Peter_D]

Just ask them before hand how hard you can push it, thats if they don't already tell you in the briefing which i'm sure they will

Do they have controls in the passenger seat? Doubt it.. So whats to stop you just going flat out and taking the guy for a death run?

[gaz4399]

My old man did one of these last year and they would only let him floor it in top gear in the ferrari and lambo.It was pretty wank tbh, Like putting megan fox in you bed and saying you can only neck her.

great metaphor, i hope for my sake it isnt the same for me. i doubt it tbh as a few people from my family regularly go to this exact place and they always say how the guys get you to go as fast as you feel safe to do so etc

Just ask them before hand how hard you can push it, thats if they don't already tell you in the briefing which i'm sure they will

Do they have controls in the passenger seat? Doubt it.. So whats to stop you just going flat out and taking the guy for a death run?


i will take that on board;). i have to get the ferrari revving as high as possible tbh just to feel and hear it singing

[K17NEY]

Just ask them before hand how hard you can push it, thats if they don't already tell you in the briefing which i'm sure they will

Do they have controls in the passenger seat? Doubt it.. So whats to stop you just going flat out and taking the guy for a death run?

Haha. I can imagine this. Instructor tells me to take it easy, I give it 7 grand and dump the clutch, Snaking it up the airstrip and banging the limiter in every gear, While the instructor screams at me to slow down. What could they possibly do apart from whipping the bar up?

[Barber90]

I think many of these places employ a spin-out rule. If you spin the car out just once then your time in the car is instantly finished. Don't know if it's everywhere. Just wait till the day dude I'm sure they'll tell you all you need to know.

[gaz4399]

I think many of these places employ a spin-out rule. If you spin the car out just once then your time in the car is instantly finished. Don't know if it's everywhere. Just wait till the day dude I'm sure they'll tell you all you need to know.

i heard about this rule mate thanks for telling me. this place does not adopt this rule to my knowledge. however it may end that session on the car i am driving at the time. but it wont ruin my day as some places wont let you out again if you spin

[SaxoJamie]

Just drive how you are comfortable with know your limit and build experience gradually and respect the car :)

[Graeme]

I did on in a ferrari 430 last week at silverstone was ace, got another one in september for a lambo aswell at silverstone

You only get limited laps but the guy i had was telling me to push it as much as i could, even in the corners!