Dorset Jap car club have an airfield day with a couple of spare places due to drop outs. I'm going along in the rex and there's another place to fill. Is anyone on here interested? The day is part exercises to practice specific techniques such as skid control,weight distribution, heel and toe, etc and then onto a makeshift track to bring it all together. I've done a few of these

days and also had driving instructin and its been extremely well worth it. I reckon you save the money just by the fact you are driving better and dont trash your car so much. They are great fun with no pressure, and you can explore the limits of the car and your driving skills without having to worry about hitting anything :mac1: :D below is the post that the guy organising it did. There's only ten people so you get plenty of driving time and tuition. Last year I paid £250 per days instruction and then another couple of hundred for the use of a proving ground so this is very good value for what you get.

 

Dave

 

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Hi,

 

Due to a couple of drop outs I have a couple of tickets available for an airfield training day to be held at Ford airfield near Arundel in West Sussex on the 13th July.

 

There will be just 12 cars there on the day so a decent amount of time on track is guarenteed.

 

Details of the day here: http://s195757148.websitehome.co.uk/...20training.htm

 

The fulll cost is £125 and I need the money by Monday 18th. For ease of payment I can supply you with a paypal link for the full amount to enable you to pay by card or paypal.

 

If you are interested please email me at djccadmin@ntlworld.com ASAP.

 

This is the perfect day for anyone who like myself has never driven the FD on track and want's to be eased in gently!

 

Thanks,

Rob.

What an awesome day. Noise wasn't a problem. Technically its 100db but there's no testing and its basically if a neighbour complains you are asked to keep your revs down. Nobody complained today. Apparently there have only been problems once before which was last month when 12 scoobies were there and a local moaned, so they just went a little easy.

The day was ten times better than the last airfield day I went on. Two groups of (five?) each had an instructor and you had one-to-one tuition on each of the events. The tuition was excellent all round and the activities were very well executed. Learning all about weight distribution, over/under steer, how to create it, how to deal with it, how to take corners: braking, coming into, coming out of,etc,etc all very good stuff.

One of my favourite parts was the fact that there was an area set up to 'play' in when you were waiting for your turn. I managed to get figure eight drifting half reasonably by the end of it :D

My semi slicks were on the way out to begin with but by the end they were pretty shot!

 

If there are enough people up for it we can arrange a day of our own. They have this airfield at Ford on the South Coast and they also have a couple of others including an official no noise one which is near Cambridge. I'm hoping the rotary mob will be up for this. Anyone here up for it? It would be £120 per person.

 

I'll get some photos up here when I get some. I know its not Zeds but maybe some people would be interested? At the moment I guess the drift days that fairladyZ was looking at are the closest thing, and well worth doing. Just thought I'd put it here in case it happens on the rotary forum and some people here wanted to join.

very nice bud ...;) ;)

 

look's like you had a fun day ...lol''''

 

let's see the vid then ... :D

 

 

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I'll get some phots up when I get them. I think a few were taking videos with their cameras but I'm probably spinning backwards in most of them as they were taken early on in the day (honest :) )

sounds like fun!! :D

Here's one:

:) Nice camera the guys got eh. Just noticed my farside front wheel looks at a weird angle.

Some good photos taken by Andy from Dorset Jap Car Club:

 

Hi,

 

Due to a couple of drop outs I have a couple of tickets available for an airfield training day to be held at Ford airfield near Arundel in West Sussex on the 13th July.

 

There will be just 12 cars there on the day so a decent amount of time on track is guarenteed.

 

Details of the day here: http://s195757148.websitehome.co.uk/...20training.htm

 

The fulll cost is £125 and I need the money by Monday 18th. For ease of payment I can supply you with a paypal link for the full amount to enable you to pay by card or paypal.

 

If you are interested please email me at djccadmin@ntlworld.com ASAP.

 

This is the perfect day for anyone who like myself has never driven the FD on track and want's to be eased in gently!

 

Thanks,

Rob.

 

The link does not work on mine ! im interested though...