Driving Days - Any recommendations

[andrew_churcher]

Hi All,

I am trying to organise a driving day at a track for myself and a few mates. I am looking for the following:

1. Cost no more than £500 per person (unless it is unbelievably good and a cant miss set up)
2. Focus on learning how to drive on a track properly rather than sampling tasty exotics
2. Full day event with healthy amounts of time in the car with good instructors
3. Cars provided rather than use our own

There are a few about but wouldnt mind getting some opinions from anyone who has done a similar event and enjoyed it.

Any thoughts appreciated.

Rgds,

 

[MarkK]

Porsche driving experience will fall into your budget superb place great instructors,cars they use are mint, they have a handling circuit and a low friction road plus a "ice hill" I really rated it.Worth a look on their website and maybe a phonecall?..

 

[pauljmcnulty]

Avoid the "drive a Ferrari" type days, and things like Red Letter vouchers. 3 laps of an old airfield, being told to short-shift and take it very slow is not fun. []

The Jonny Herbert days have had good feedback, and I'd second Mark's suggestion. On top of the Porsche day you've got Silverstone to wander around, and would be good to pick a day when something's happening there.

 

[edh]

They are expensive, but the palmersport days are head & shoulders above anything else I've done. The instructors let you really push the cars and there's a great variety to drive. I don't think you're going to learn much about track driving in a single day on days like this - better to try something more bespoke on a track day with a decent instructor & a couple of hire cars (track-club.com?)

Having said that, I much prefer using my own car for the day

 

[pauljmcnulty]

They are expensive, but the palmersport days are head & shoulders above anything else I've done

Was typing whilst trying to talk to SWMBO. I did, of course, mean Palmer, not Herbert. [&o]

 

[James_G]

I learnt far more from driving my own car with Car Limits (ww.carlimits.com) and then signing up for some novice track days at Bedford and Brands than I did from driving other cars that weren't mine, although I did get to give a 360 F1 the beans, which was nice.

I do hear that the Porsche experience is very good, and a half day there will tell you if you (or more accurately your body) will cope when you throw it into the 100th max attack corner of the day.

 

[Copperman05]

CAT driver training have good rep too

http://www.catdrivertraining.co.uk/cat2menu.shtml

Edd

 

[cuffn]

I would add a third recommendation for the palmersport days although the one I did was quite a number of years ago through my company when they had a tie in with Mercedes. I still remember the thrill to this day though and would love to do another if I had the funds!

 

[andrew_churcher]

Thanks for the replies all. The Palmer option does look great. they also now offer half days which seem like great value for money.

 

[AntB]

Another Palmer Sport day vote for me... Done a good few track days and events and this was by far the best... but as said - its intense!