Advice required please. Have signed up for my 1st track day at Snetterton. Is there anything that you regulars automatically take with you that a newby might not think of. Any advice greatly appreciated.
Smiles are a good choice, as is lunch money.
Aside maybe a litre of oil and if you wanted to start playing about with tyre pressures a pump, there is not really a lot else to take, especially if you are talking about the 8th as there will be so much stuff there anyway.
Good man!
Nick’s pretty-much summed it up.
Let me know in the morning brief if you’d like to tease some advice out of Major Jim (actually now civvy-Jim but the name kind-of stuck!)
Nick, Jim and a good-few others have always told me that tuition is the best upgrade, I didn’t heed the advice and wasted a lot of money when I started racing as bad trackday habits soon bit hard!
I’ve just spent the day cleaning out the Club helmets and washing all the helmet bags (rock 'n roll lifestyle I lead eh?!) so don’t worry about a lid either.
In essence, turn up and enjoy
Thanks for that. Do we get sent an information pack before the day, if not what is the best time to arrive at the track? Many thanks.
You’ve spent the day washing your …erm …
Take a couple of small bottles of water with you. It’s unlikely that the car will need to be topped up with water, but you’ll be amazed at how thirsty you can get.
a toilet roll
Take your fuel in cans. Don,t go out with full tank. The car will be too heavy and slow and all that fuel sloping around upsets the balance. Don,t go out with much more than a quarter of a tank. But DON’T run out on track, you will not be popular.
Check your car over well before you go out and during the day. Don,t worry if you are slow, you will get faster. Build your speed throughout the day. Come in regularly for breaks ( not brakes).You will find your tyre pressures go up dramatically as the tyres get hotter, keep an eye on them.
It’s brilliant, you will love it. Get out of the way of faster cars but don,t be intimidated. Generally everybody on a trackday is well behaved.
Good luck.
I suppose its possible you may have done your day by now as I have just read your post… How did it go.
Yes the day went really well thanks. It was good to explore the limits of the car. Within a few laps you could smell the tyres and a couple of times I was unfortunately bouncing of the rev limiter. It would be good to get an old MX just for track days - road driving seems pretty boring now! I used to race a mini back in the dark ages, but it all comes back pretty quickly.
I am going on my first track day soon - i am worried about my brake pads (cheap standard items) not lasting.
Can anyone recommend some pads that will offer me decent retardation for a track evening, that will be fine for road use and wont cost the earth? I am not going to be doing continual track days it is more of a one off.
they need to go on a standard mk2 1.8iS
advice welcome!
also (and at risk of getting ripped to shreds here…) can you go on a trackday without rollover protection?
You can do a trackday in a standard car, without any harm.
Yellow stuff pads are good for trackday and the road, but don’t put them in then go straight to the track.
Bleed your brake fluid too, many people’s days are spoilt by a soggy brake pedal.