European Trackdays

RenaultSport Trackdays For 2009

RenaultSport UK and RenaultSport France have announced their trackdays for 2009.

RenaultSport Trackdays - Clio 172 Cup

UK Trackday Dates

  • 23 March – Visit to the Renaultsport factory at Dieppe
  • 27 May – Trackday at Brands Hatch
  • 1 June – Trackday at Spa-Francorchamps
  • 8 June – Visit to the Renaultsport factory at Dieppe
  • 19 June – Evening trackday at Bedford Autodrome
  • 31 July – Evening trackday at Bedford Autodrome
  • 11 August – Trackday at Cadwell Park
  • 21 August – Evening trackday at Bedford Autodrome
  • 15 September – Trackday at Oulton Park

More Information can be found on the RenaultSport UK Trackday Section

RenaultSport Trackday at Spa Francorchamps 2007

European Trackdays With RenaultSport

  • 07 mars Journée Circuit Alès 13 février
  • 19 mars Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 20 février
  • 23 mars Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 27 février
  • 29 mars Journée Circuit Dreux 06 mars
  • 04 avril Journée Circuit Zolder 13 mars
  • 17 avril Journée Circuit Val de Vienne 27 mars
  • 25 avril Journée Circuit Folembray 03 avril
  • 17 mai Stage Pilotage “Femmes” Folembray 24 avril
  • 25 mai Stage Pilotage Clio Nogaro 01 mai
  • 27 mai Journée Circuit Brands Hatch 30 avril
  • 01 juin Journée Circuit Spa Francorchamps 08 mai
  • 08 juin Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 15 mai
  • 13 juin Journée Circuit Laquais 22 mai
  • 20 juin Journée Circuit Abbeville 29 mai
  • 04 juillet Journée Circuit Nogaro 12 juin
  • 09 juillet Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 12 juin
  • 11 juillet Stage de Pilotage Le Luc 19 juin
  • 24 juillet Journée Circuit Dijon 26 juin
  • 11 août Journée Circuit Cadwell Park 17 juillet
  • 22 août Stage de Pilotage Val de Vienne 31 juillet
  • 03 septembre Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 07 août
  • 09 septembre Journée Découverte Flins – Dreux 26 août
  • 15 septembre Journée Circuit Oulton Park 21 août
  • 26 septembre Journée Circuit Le Mans 04 septembre
  • 02 octobre Journée Circuit Anneau du Rhin 11 septembre
  • 08 octobre Journée Découverte Flins – Dreux 23 septembre
  • 17 octobre Journée Circuit Le Luc 25 septembre
  • 26 octobre Visite Alpine Renault Dieppe 02 octobre

More Information can be found on the RenaultSport France Website: European Trackdays

Get booking Now – they are great fun as there are not normally a lot of people on track and they are great value for money compared to days run by TDO’s.

Always a Hooligan,

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UK Trackday Organisers

UK Trackdays

Trackdays in the UK are run by a number of different organisers, they cost between £99 and £350 depending on the time of year, the number of people on the track, whether the track is a recognised race circuit or just an airfield that has had cones laid out to make a temporary trackday circuit.

How to find a UK Trackday?

I am only going to cover cars and car trackdays in this guide or article, as I know absolutely bugger all about bike trackdays, so please click on the link to go back to Google if you have landed here looking for > bike trackdays <

Basically my main advice would be as follows… Expect it to be an expensive day, you can pay upto £300 normally for a trackday at a UK circuit, but many TDO’s offer cheap deals if you book up 5 days in advance, or offer early bird incentives.
 

Trackday Organisers (TDO’s)

Trackday organisers fall into a couple of brackets, firstly there are the companies that run the circuits who also run their own trackdays such as Motorsport Vision and Donnington Park Trakzone. The other bracket is really companies who run regular trackday events at other circuits be they Motorsport vision, or privately owned. They take your booking and manage most of the other details like tickets and so on.

 

Easytrack

Easytrack are based in Cheshire and I have been on trackdays run by them since they started really. Francesca in the office is a great help and has arranged everything from a trip to Spa Francorchamps for 20 of us, to prizes for YozzaSport customers in competitions. They run days at all the major (and the minor) circuits up and down the country and are normally quite competitive with their pricing.
EasyTrack
 

Lotus On Track

One of the companies who I book most of my trackdays through – they offer really good deals on trackdays throught out the UK and Northern France, as well as running days at Spa Francorchamps and The Nurburgring. I suggest that it is best to buy lifetime membership, as it makes sense to for the cost. They also have some really good circuit guides.
Lotus On Track

RMA Trackdays

RMA Trackdays pitch themselves at the more expensive end of the trackday market mainly aimed at the owners of luxury machinery. They operate two clubs – Paddock Club and Circuit Club.

RMA Paddock Club – Membership £3000 / annum

The best part about the days that RMA run are that like most European trackdays, overtaking is allowed on either side (you keep your line and let the faster or overtaking car pass offline), obviously safety is a concern, but you tend to find that it works better than the “overtake on the left” policy or the “wait until you have consent” rules that are common in the UK. Other benefits of these days are that there are no formal drivers briefings, RMA brief every person individually when they arrive on the day at sign on. The days that they operate, are more expensive, but it means that they can operate an open pit lane policy, people are able to just turn up, do a few hours when they want, and then can just go. RMA have tyre support vehicles and hospitality at every meeting that they hold even over in Europe. It used to be offered by ProTyre Motorsport in Stoke, but I am not sure if that is still the case.

RMA Circuitclub

Operated in an almost identical way to Paddock Club, Circuitclub runs RMA’s European Trackdays.

CircuitDays

I know loads of people who have done days with circuit days, they seem really happy with the deals that they offer and generally rave about everything that they do on the days. They also run mini-petrolhead holidays to the Nurburgring and the like.

BookaTrack

BookaTrack are one of the larger TDO’s in the UK. They offer an extensive calendar, and also offer hire cars – BAT’s as they call them. I have been to several of their days, and they are great fun. They run days at most of the UK circuits, and quite a few European days as well.

Javelin Trackdays

Another company that I haven’t used for ages, but have been around for ages and seem to have a good reputation. They tend to run smaller days at airfields and sprint circuits – great for beginners.

GoldTrack

Goldtrack are a company that I haven’t used before, people I know have and seem quite happy with their days.
Goldtrack

 

BHP Trackdays

A Company that I hadn’t heard of until this guide/article. They seem to run quite a few days a year however…
BHP Trackdays

PalmerSport

The PalmerSport circuits are: Bedford Autodrome, Brands Hatch, Cadwell Park, Oulton Park and Snetterton, each have their own section of the PalmerSport website (linked above). You can also do what was once called the Magnificent Seven – which is their corporate package where you can drive a Forumla Jaguar, a Porsche 911 JP3, Palmer Jaguar JP1 (a le-mans style racer), Jaguar XKR, Caterham 7 Superlight, Clio Cup Racer and an offroad Land Rover Defender. You can see all the cars here: Palmersport Cars   

Major UK Circuits

Brands Hatch
Silverstone
Oulton Park
Donnington Park
Mallory Park
Brands Hatch
Thruxton
Snetterton
Cadwell Park
Silverstone
Anglesey
Rockingham
Pembrey
Knockhill
Castle Combe
Goodwood
Lydden Hill

I am starting to plot them all on a custom GoogleMap/Google Earth if you are interested…

 

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Major European Cicuits For UK Trackday Enthusiasts 

Spa Francorchamps
Nurburgring Nordschleife
Le Mans
Magny Cours
Zandvoort
Zolder

ATDO – Association of Trackday Organisers

The ATDO is an association set up by trackday organisers to improve safety and develop codes of practice for UK Trackday organisers ATDO

Always A Hooligan,

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