Track Day/Meet/Barbecue

[ro55ifumi]

All

Having looked at the thread on what direction you would like the club to do, the above idea was thrown in to the pot.

The one stumbling block on the idea is below cost:

Just to give an idea on rough costs (based on an April meet):

Blyton - £4500 - Run about 40 cars, camping £5pp

Cadwell - £9000 - Run about 65 cars

Any other main tracks are a complete fortune and any closer to Summer and prices rise!!

(Thanks to Hou for the above)

As you can see from above this is not a cheap day/weekend, for it to go ahead we would need commitment from people including possibly a 50% Deposit, (Please Bear In Mind How Many Dropped Out Last Year)

As a club we can not subsidise the event as we don't have the funds available.

As said unless the commitment is here then it will not be achievable.

Please feed back as to members thoughts on the above

UKSO Team

[Amjad]

Can't do anything before August myself

[Jack-CTR]

i may not have a starlet but i have an ep

id come and im sure alot of people would especialy if you start taking diposits,

if you can get the numbers for.blyton im sure between me and hou we can find the rest of the places, i know loads of civic boys that would be interested

[Hou]

Cheapest August day I saw last year was £199 per car

[Hou]

i may not have a starlet but i have an ep

id come and im sure alot of people would especialy if you start taking diposits,

if you can get the numbers for.blyton im sure between me and hou we can find the rest of the places, i know loads of civic boys that would be interested

Sorting a day wouldn't be an issue, I think they wanted it mainly starlets though

Will be speaking to you in the future about other days we run though Jack ;)

[Jack-CTR]

yeah i know but was just a suggestion.if get 30 starlets and cant find 10 cars

[ro55ifumi]

Hou

Unless the take up is there then it would have to be thrown open mate.

John

[pick1]

Only thing I can think of is start a list for those that would deffinately be up for track and who would be willing to give a large deposit towards there place to see if Ukso could get the numbers required

[Amjad]

No worries Mark, I understand not many people will have as limited choice as me anyway!

[Hou]

No worries Mark, I understand not many people will have as limited choice as me anyway!

How come weekends before then are out of bounds if you don't mind me asking?

[Danb]

How much is anglessey, when i looked at sorting somethign out years ago, it wasnt that much dearer than cadwell park.

[Hou]

About same-ish price to Cadwell but still over double the price of Blyton Dan. I will be doing Anglesey next year though with the track-ninjas

[Amjad]

Being a Med student living away from home I don't get a lot of free time unfortunately, weekends are a no go and all holidays before Summer are used to revise

I said August/July as it would give me a chance to get the GT roadworthy and taxed/tested in time but no worries dude

Edited October 23, 2012 by Socks

[smobey_sutton2]

Cheapest August day I saw last year was £199 per car

Castle Combe track day is £170 if you go on your own so would probably be about £150 each for a whole day if we had a good group! Castle Combe cracking circuit too!

[Hou]

Combe is too far south for the Scottish lot though really

[Dan507]

Ahh, but. it's the biggest club turnout in all the shows. surely that counts for something? 60 odd cars at japfest this year? combe FTW

[Hou]

Yeah for a cheap show not a 150 quid track day ;)

[Wardy]

I would be up for anywhere really. Havent done coombe yet but thats one of my musts! Cadwell Park is an amazing track, i loved it!

What about Mallory Park? Thats a fantastic track for starlets and probably cheaper?

[Hou]

Mallory is more expensive than Cadwell. We need a small track because we wont get the numbers

[Wardy]

Is it really?! Ive just had a look on trackdays.com and your right, the cheapest is blyton park

[james@cjperformance]

im in not fussed where or time of year as long as i can get my munch on and plenty of time trying to destroy my car on track ;) aa cover ftw!!

[Wardy]

^^ haha you ledgend. I know me and my friend with a saab 9000 will be able to go if hes allowed lol!

[Hou]

Is it really?! Ive just had a look on trackdays.com and your right, the cheapest is blyton park

Yeah, plus also need more cars on track to meet the price

[little dave]

thats the case me and a pair of savage focus rs's will be game for sum fun defo

[Nanglebadger]

ouch! expensive.

here in NI at Kirkistown there are days run by "Trackskills", where essentially you register with them for a year (maybe £100) and then for ~£50 you can run what you have each time they hold a day at Kirky (pretty regular I believe). this therefore makes it MUCH cheaper than the £9000 above.

is there nothing similar to this on the mainland that you could all arrange to meet at/join and hold an event along side? just a thought.

here is a link for more exact prices as i was just estimating:

http://www.trackskills.com/

Phil.