A friend has just bought a 350Z & wants to take it out to play on a circuit, hes never done a track day before & has never had a quick car before.

Im looking for any suggestions for a track in the South (we are in Hampshire)where its good for a beginer to start. Ive found a very experienced driver with a lot of track & race experience to sit with him so I know he will be OK from that side but I want somewhere that dosent allow too many cars & is not too technical hence he can get a lot of track time

Stuart, get him to register on www.scoobyzone.co.uk They run an annual trackday at Castle Combe, no more than 6 cars on track at a time, all nicely split into sessions. Tell them I sent you.

Evo magazine are doing track day lessons in your own car, might be worth having a look.

Bedford autodrome is a good circuit, there's plenty of grass run off's just in case...

Just had another thought, have a look on http://www.uktrackdays.co.uk/ They list all the trackdays in the UK

Bedford? IIRC I'm banned from there

Bedford? IIRC I'm banned from there

Even in a Taxi !!

I think it was because I, in effect, called Dr Palmer an ignorant/arrogant tw@ on a bulletin board

I think it was because I, in effect, called Dr Palmer an ignorant/arrogant tw@ on a bulletin board

Might have something todo with it

John, it's a long story - all about decibel levels, how readings are taken etc etc It got very heated and resulted in 20+ of us being banned from Bedford...

Bedford? IIRC I'm banned from there

why?

Do you know Daveyboy? Ask him

Basically, I went there on a Scooby day. Very foggy. 100dB limit. Cars tested at entrance at 2/3rds max revs. Started session, 1 hour late. Stopped after 20mins due to noise complaints. Everyone had to have their cars retested, but they had to be driven by Palmersport employees so no-one could "cheat" the drive by test. Noise limit dropped to 99dB. Session restarted. Session then stopped as some still too loud. Noise limit dropped to 97dB (basically halving it), way below the council authorised 100dB drive by limit. Refundsweren't offered to those who failed. We complained on Scoobynet, Dr Palmer came on and told us we didn't understand noise measurement. I called him a patronising tw@ (and I was very mild). He then went through the thread, picked out all those who had criticised him and 3 months later, we got a mail from SIDC saying he had banned us.

That's the short version, the original thread was about 20 pages Note I may have the dB numbers wrong, it was 2 years ago.

Do you know Daveyboy? Ask him

He works with a friend of mine, he was at Bedford a couple of weekends ago, only watching though.