Rotary Drive & Slide Day @ Finmere on 29th October 2010

[CrissyUK]

Good afternoon All,

We (MRC / RX8OC) have been offered the opportunity to host our own car control / drift day on Friday 29th October at Finmere Airfield which is just off the A421 (approx. 8 miles south of Silverstone) on the Oxfordshire/Bucks border. This event is run by our good friends at Mazda on Track who will be offering assistance and guidance to all participants as well as marshaling the event.

The cost for the day will be around £50.00 per person based on 20 participants and for this we will have:

1 handling circuit consisting of a coned track that incorporates a short straight and a sequence of increasingly tight corners that will help sharpen up your driving skills (the first sweeping bend is also good for practicing power slides :rolleyes: )

1 sprint circuit consisting of another coned track laid out in a much larger area than the handling circuit and this can be either driven at speed or sideways (or a combination of both).

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Mint Tyres will be invited to the event which means you can hire a set of crappy old tyres from them for something like £2.50 / corner plus fitting thus taking away the worry of tyre wear. They also rent rims with drift tyres on and these work out at around £40 for two.

If there is enough interest in having a go at drifting we can turn the handling circuit into a play pen for parts of the day.

Formal 1-on-1 tuition during the course of the day is available at extra cost although when I went both Nick and Al were more than happy to jump in the car for a couple of laps to help out with any sticky points and feedback was given all the time.

Formal 1-on-1 tuition with Steve Lewis, ARDS racing driver instructor will also be available at extra cost. Now, for this to take place we need to have a minimum number of takers because we need to hire a third area of Finmere where Steve can work his magic and this, unfortunately, has a substantial cost which could run at around £40+ extra per person depending on numbers. Something worth considering especially if you fancy doing your first track day in the future (see Oulton Park on 17th November and Brands Hatch on 3rd December).

So who\'s coming?

Please add your names to the list in the usual way:

I\'M IN
Casey (action day + tuition with Steve)
CrissyUK (action day + tuition with Steve)


All the best,
Crissy

[lee mills]

Any noise limits?

[TRex]

I imagine it\'s 1 Car at a time doing runs.....?

[CrissyUK]

I believe MoT have a self imposed noise limit of 95db-ish, however when I went there last October it wasn\'t tested. The airfield is fairly isolated from civilization so as long as your car isn\'t outrageously noisy you\'ll be fine. Mine isn\'t quiet either and nobody complained.  
 
Also, you\'ll find that in the morning you\'ll be going round one at the time to give people the opportunity to familiarize with the circuits but then as soon as everyone look like they know where they are going it\'s usually 2 cars on at the time, especially on the larger circuit.
 

[fil_auto]

This sounds very interesting and is not far from me at all!

Will be keeping an eye on this and hope to join in!

Only thing it it\'s late in the year, so weather could be pants......

[MrHanky]

I did this day last month and had a great day.  It quickly turned into 2 cars on at the same time, and was even better once the 2nd circuit (drift circuit during that day),as there was very little waiting for you\'re next turn.

[MrHanky]

Hi,
 
The price of £50 per person.  Is this correct or is this per car, with an extra fee should you wish to come along with 2 drivers?
 
Thanks
 
Mark

[CrissyUK]

Mark,

I am sure that price is per person attending but I\'ll double check with Nick and let you know.  

All the best,
Crissy

[MrHanky]

Hi Crissy,
 
Just wondering if you have any news on this.  Im actually banking on it being per car and the supplement for extra driver as that is how they usually do it.  If they don\'t do it this way this time, then it makes little economic sense as I could book a normal Finmere day for me +1 for £79.
 
Anyway hoping that I can book this soon, as I may have talked my wife into leaving our kids for the day
 
Thanks
 
Mark

[CrissyUK]

You know... I meant to ask Nick last Saturday at Mallory but forgot!!!    Have just emailed him and will let you know what he says as soon as he gets back to me.
 
Sorry for the delay,  
Crissy

[Paul-Tll]

I think I\'m going to pencil my self in for this £50 ?! pending time off work I\'m in
Paul.
  (Noise limits though)

[CrissyUK]

Hi Mark,
 
It is £50 per car indeed  
 
@Paul: as long as your car is within trackday limits you should be fine.
 

[Paul-Tll]

Casey (action day + tuition with Steve)
CrissyUK (action day + tuition with Steve)
Paul-Tll

Paul.

[MrHanky]

Awesome, cheers Crissy.  Just need to check I can get time off work and then should be fine.  
 
Thanks Crissy
 
Mark

[CrissyUK]

Brilliant!!
 
So far the cobined list RX8OC & MRC looks like this:
 
I\'M IN
Madder (action day + tuition with Steve)
Casey (action day + tuition with Steve)
CrissyUK (action day + tuition with Steve)
Zarterone (action Day)
Rexxy
GreySilver Beast (action day) + Wheels & Tyres
Countzero (action day + tuition with Steve) +wheels and tyres
ChrisK + Wheels & Tyres
Rob1 (Wheels and tyres) + tuition with steve
Ian.Mothersole (action day + tuition with Steve) & Wheels/tyres
Paul-Tll