Just had an email in from easytrack.co.uk, about a Beginner's Track Day, seems very well priced:

 

1) Beginners Day at Kemble (in support of The Great Ormond Street

Children’s Hospital Beaujolais Charity Challenge) Saturday 10th November,

Kemble Airfield.

 

If you have never done a track day before this is the ideal opportunity, in an inexpensive way, to come and see what it is all about !!

 

If you book into this event you need to be a beginner, and you will receive for the laughable sum of just forty quid a session with an instructor and 4 solo sessions on the track at Kemble Airfield Nr Cirencester, Glos.

You will also get to meet plenty of regular easytrack members, get to hear a few hero stories and enjoy passenger rides in a range of auto-exotica, including Ferrari, Porsche and Caterhams.

 

£40 for a session with instructor then 4 solo sessions - not bad

 

Might give it a go as I haven't taken the 300 on track only the old Elise.

 

2.5 Miles and a couple of nice long straights:

 

 

Tim

 

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oh god here we go already lol....... im not driving up there like a lunatic....its always andy i that instigates speeding

 

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Warren good to see you corrected your tryping.

 

Your fingers get carried away don't they

 

Speed me, never orifice! You're meant to take the agression out on the track.

 

Anyway gotta go and catch a train.

 

Later guyz

 

tim

Hey, at Trax I was just keeping in formation

 

Lets not tempt fate and start mentioning penalties before we even get there Before the WTC disaster, I think the Southern Trax boyZ were the most wanted people on earth. Certainly wouldn't have been 3 points for that stuff, more like 25 years and I don't think I could handle being locked up in a small space with Warren for more than 2 hours, LMAO.

Well it looks like I'm a complete Tw@t then

 

Thank you for informing me of this - with warren being a complete Nob then we should get on RATHER well LMFAO

 

CheerZ,

 

Andy the Tw@t

IGNORE THIS!!!!!!!

 

THEY HAVE PUT IN A NEW DAY ON THE 9TH NOVEMBER.

 

THE DAY WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IS THE 10TH

 

There seems to be a slight hickup with the http://www.easytrack.co.uk server and the Kemble Beginner's day is showing as 60 places available, if you're quick you might sneak in a booking

 

Worth a try if you missed out yesterday.

 

Tim

 

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i think they have released an extra day as a beginner day on the friday, as the saturday is still showing full.

 

there are a few reserves on the saturday, me being one of them

 

i think you can still add yourself as a reserve place

tut tut tut, shows you who the real 300zx enthusiasts are hey????? (well thats th ones that got in)

An ideal time to get me standard wheels and tyres on and let rip in a bigway

 

You got it Warren, I wont be buying my nice new boots 'till after the 10th

 

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perhaps for those who missed out we could attend on the 9th and stay overnight for the people attending on the 10th (won't be much for a B&B) and can tell the missus I'm taking her away for the night!!!

 

 

now im having an evil scheme...

some of the guys go up on friday the 9th do the day all the guys doing saturday the 10thcan meet up at said accomodation, and we could have one serious zed bash (t)

Like it!

 

A few beers and a blast round the track sounds good.

Guess I'll probabally be the only 300zx Auto at the track day. I contacted easytrack to see what tuition etc was going to be on offer, the following is the reply:

 

Hi Tim

 

We have a mixture of levels of ability at all of our track days so you wouldn't feel out of place at any of our Kemble Airfield days and

instruction is always available to you.

 

That said, the Beginners Days we are running on 10th Novembemer and now 9th November as well as demand was so high would be a grate way to get started.

 

I also drive an automatic and I have to admit that it is not as suitable for track use as a manual gear box but it is not impossible and you will certainly still have some fun. The instruction will be split into two types. We shall do a bit of class room based general track day rules and then each driver will be able to have 15 minutes of in car instruction on the track. This instruction will be in your own car.

 

We do have noise restrictions for the track and no race cars are permitted. Please see the website for more information.

 

Regards

Samantha

Tim,

 

don't worry, my car is an Auto and it's fine on track. Switch off overdrive until you are reaching high speeds and you won't be at much of a disadvantage.

 

Andy

TT - mines an auto...

 

Are we gonna seriously sort out the Friday for booking because time is running out people!?

 

Also got mail from samantha, she says I've got a provisional booking (what ever that is)

 

 

 

 

T3RBO, just checked the easytrack site good to see that you've been confirmed for the Sat.

 

Now we need to get Craig in and convince Dylan to take the 300 rather than the Westfield

 

We'll have 7 out then, how many made it to TRAX?

 

Tim

 

Good news: Craigs in now so it's gonna be a blast!

 

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So what was Kemble like? I'm going to do the Dec 1st one.

 

I was at Bedford Autodrome at the weekend and it was fun racing against exotica. All the Ferrari drivers were rolling road blocks but boy are Porsche GT3's good on the circuit.

 

The RMA track times are expensive so the attitude of the drivers is in the upper end of sensible but i hear that Kemble can attract the Xr2 variety and cause a few problems.

 

comments? Is it worth the £85 for December 1st?

 

Simon P.