Are they really worth it? Ive been offered to do one for my 21st in a couple of months time, but ive read they restrict the cars to around half of the revs which is frankly **** and not what i want at all!!

Can anyone point me in the direction of a decent one? Or an alternative with similar thrills (not necessarily to do with driving).

Dave

Airfield track day for the best 'bang for buck'.

It does mean using your own car though.

Sorry i meant like super car experience days...

Ahhhh ok,

Did u drive@porche last weekend. Fantastic! 50ish min driving latest 911 round handling and low friction track. This is 1:1 instruction. And they turn the traction control off. Then took my fabia onto a snow hill simulator, but to easy with atb. Last driving bit was the kick plate. Absolute scream. A hydrolic plate in the road kick the back of the car out as you drive on to a low friction surface. Awesome. You then control skid. There are instructors to give advice or even show you how, in your car. Also class section on safer driving and physical skills for racing drivers. I learned some good stuff and had a lot of fun.

I've done several of the "supercar experiences", most recently at Prestwold Hall in Leicestershire with Everyman racing. These is a lot of hanging around, but on the upside you generally get chatting to like minded petrol heads. There are also a lot of cars to photograph.

I've also been to a few at Mallory park and another track that I cannot recall the name of - with one of those "red letter days" type companies.

From memory I got to drive the following:

Aston Martin DB9

Aston Martin Vantage

Monaro VXR

Lambo Gallardo

Ferrari F355

Nissan GTR - by far the best car of all

Porsche 911

Mitsubishi Evo

Subaru WRX

E type Jaguar

D type Jaguar

S type Jaguar

Jaguar XK8

VW Polo Group N rally car

Probably the most fun I had was driving the VW Polo on a road/rally type track - hours of fun doing "figure of eights" and drifiting, all with just 75BHP.

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The only experience day I recall where we weren't allowed to really go for it on the track was when driving the D type Jaguar. I seem to recall we were limited to 3rd gear, but the car was a genuine Le Mans racer and in excess of 45 years old.

I've just looked at Everyman racings website and see the prices have dropped a lot, presumably due to the recession.

Thats me in the Porsche:

Best of the lot was the GTR though, awesome car and scarily easy to drive fast:

I was bought a supercar experience for my 50th birthday & had a choice on the day of 2 astons, 2 ferrari's, 2 lambo's an Audi or an Atom.

I did the Atom it was a prodrive 360bhp version & left a Gailliardo standing, forget anything else for sheer G force, adrenalin rush it has to be an atom - Search you tube for the Clarkson drive of the atom, or the Top Gear USA atom drive, the experience REALLY is like the ones they get.

If I find an odd £40k lying around, this is my toy / car

i got one of these for chistmas, went to longcross proving ground and drove an ariel atom, it was ok, car was obviously fast but didnt have time to get used to it and do any 'proper' driving, to be honest would have had much more fun in my car at a track day

After doing a few track days with Briskoda I want to do some of these experience days too. I know my local track (Pembrey) do Formula Ford and MG driving as part of a package. It's the only one that's tempted me but I do want to try stuff like Atoms, GTRS, Lambos etc. If it's rev restricted I won't bother. For the price I want all or nothing

I did a couple and found one part of them always rather dissapointing - driving the cars . Single seater part o the other hand... No car, no matter what can give you as many Gees, feedback, sheer impression of speed and sky high bpm's as single seater. The only thing that beats that is karting. Michael Schumacher was pulling more G's in a go-kart around Monaco F1 track than he did in his F1 car...

Still, doing the super car experience once or twice is definitely worth it!

Or you can try this one

ww2.palmersport.com/palmersport-formula.aspx

i did a super car experience style thing at mercedes benz world in wokingham which i thought was absolutely brilliant. there are a few different options for the type of experience available, but my instructor was very professional and helped me learn a lot (im only 19) whilst encouraging me to put my foot down as much as possible. i think part of the idea of the experience is to show off the mercedes cars and their capabilities, but i loved it anyway. Well worth having a look at.

For someone wanting to improve thier technique you don't want a very fast car anyway.

Something a bit slower that gives you a bit of thinking time is good. (and cheaper!)

For someone wanting to improve thier technique you don't want a very fast car anyway.

Something a bit slower that gives you a bit of thinking time is good. (and cheaper!)

Absolutely! The car/racer doesn't have to be slow either IMHO. What is important is to take it easy, learn the track at low speeds as each circuit is completely different (surface, cambers, wind conditions especially with Fabias as they have aerodynamics of a RV lol, etc) and by going full pelt straight out of the box you will be guaranteed to end up like that Fiat <img src='http://www.briskoda.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/emoticon-0105-wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> straddling the Armco upside down. Come to think about it hot head novices go off at the begging of every session and pros start going off somewhere in the middle as they come close and over the limit while searching for those last elusive tens. Paradoxically with racing one has to have lots of patience.

Edited 20 September, 201213 yr by Jabozuma

do a single seater day-silverstone is great-no instructor so just you and the car and then you can really push it!

After doing a few supercar days i did a van damien and then the formula fords and there really is nothing like it!

do a single seater day-silverstone is great-no instructor so just you and the car and then you can really push it!

After doing a few supercar days i did a van damien and then the formula fords and there really is nothing like it!

Can confirm that .

I did a Ferrari drive day as part of a birthday prezzie from the missus. She got it from groupon so it was half price. For the price she paid it was well worth it but for full price i'm not so sure.

I drove a 360 for roughly half an hour and as fun as it was I was a little underwhelmed by it. The TC was way too savage and didn't really let you play about with it too much as it just cut the power mid corner. The main issue I found was the other people on the track were driving WAY too slowly and it spoilt it for me.

If you want massive fun my advice is your own car + The Ring = silly amounts of of fun. For me, nothing compares.

Fitz.

Try something like this as an alternative:

http://www.skyinsurance.co.uk/blog/2012/08/drift-limits-affiliation/

I did a palmersport experience day a few years ago and as far as I'm aware you won't have a better driving experience anywhere.... It was incredible!! The instructors will push you to the absolute limit of your driving ability. Expensive but worth it. http://www.google.com.tr/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB0QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.palmersport.com%2F&ei=pZ5gUIjPCpHT4QTTtoCoBA&usg=AFQjCNEH9u-6EErOVi4OREkNGOuxnAxeng

supercar lifestyle off of groupon was ok see

fpr constant pressure to change up !!

was ok though pics and vids are a con

oh GTR gearbox blew up but supercharged atom passenger ride was scary

They are great fun, booked one for my sisters 40th and she thoroughly enjoyed herself.

If you choose one, make sure you are actually allowed to drive. Some stipulate a minimum age of 25, and since you need to show both parts of your driving license before they will let you behind the wheel, there is no hiding your age.

I did a palmersport experience day a few years ago and as far as I'm aware you won't have a better driving experience anywhere.... It was incredible!! The instructors will push you to the absolute limit of your driving ability. Expensive but worth it. http://www.google.co...OREkNGOuxnAxeng

Been looking at those and Palmersport does look epic.Do want more RWD experience first apart from Gran Turismo with a wheel before I did one of his days. With the weather going crap it will be next year before I do anything. Pembrey first for the Formula Ford then something like this

MartynVRS,

they do a experience driving @ swansea airport, 3laps in 3 cars you choose £129, or £5 in your car a lap, drive lambo, ferrari 430, db9, porsche gt3, audi r8, maserati, areil atom is there but additional cost, also a skid car is there, www.experiencecarlimits.com or google it. once a month, can get a bit busy.

sorry it should be www.experiencelimit.com