Driving experience days

Housey · 5 Feb 2014 at 10:48

InvaderGIR said:
Have a look at this thread by Housey about Phil Price Rally School. It's only £99 over your initial budget and appears to be utterly awesome and is the sort of driving day I'd want to do if I were after an experience day.

I thoroughly recommend this to anyone who wants a good full day with lots of seat time and the freedom to have a proper go. I've done it 3 or 4 times now and always book with a group of 10 mates, so have the place to ourselves. I think we pay circa £200 a head to do that and usually stay in a hotel about 20 minutes away the night before for a spot of dinner.

You then head up into the hills in the morning and into the school and spend the day blasting MK2 Escorts around followed by some Scooby fun and then end the day with a competition and a fast stage with Phil in a WRC car, which is fantastic and never ceases to amaze me how smooth a rally car is on the stage.

p1RATE · 5 Feb 2014 at 11:18

How about SkidRisk in birmingham for a practice drifting day? I just had a look at you can hire a set up BMW 328 including entry & tyres for £250 for the day.

I dont think they have a website but here is their facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SkidRiskBirmingham

There is usually a post on driftworks forum to signup and i think its on about once a month. http://www.driftworks.com/forum/dri...ay-birmingham-wheels-february-2nd-2014-a.html

q6600 · 5 Feb 2014 at 11:35

InvaderGIR said:
Have a look at this thread by Housey about Phil Price Rally School. It's only £99 over your initial budget and appears to be utterly awesome and is the sort of driving day I'd want to do if I were after an experience day.

That is a LPG convert Escort from the first picture?
http://imgur.com/9LrRibP

Clarkey · 5 Feb 2014 at 11:40

The e46 hire car is for sale now so I guess that service isnt available any more.

thedazman67 · 5 Feb 2014 at 11:43

I really enjoyed my Porsche Driving Experience at Silverstone 90 minutes of driving around their facility includes a handling circuit, kick plate, ice hill. Mine was a gift but I think there in the £300 region.

Housey · 5 Feb 2014 at 12:01

q6600 said:
That is a LPG convert Escort from the first picture?
http://imgur.com/9LrRibP

Yes they are all converted.

acemastr · 5 Feb 2014 at 12:07

A hire car for a day + track day would be hilarious

Clarkey · 5 Feb 2014 at 12:32

acemastr said:
A hire car for a day + track day + a crash would be a ruinous nightmare

Fixed.

Hades · 5 Feb 2014 at 12:58

Clarkey said:
Fixed.

Sadly, a good point

theone8181 · 5 Feb 2014 at 14:17

thedazman67 said:
I really enjoyed my Porsche Driving Experience at Silverstone 90 minutes of driving around their facility includes a handling circuit, kick plate, ice hill. Mine was a gift but I think there in the £300 region.

I've Ben on it as well, very good fun and worth the trip. I want to test winter tyres on that surface tho

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Housey · 5 Feb 2014 at 15:55

Ive done a couple of Porsche events and I would take Phil Price Rally school over them anytime. Mind you, I did have a GT3 so got to drive one for 20K miles

mjt · 5 Feb 2014 at 16:22

If you can afford it, Palmer Sport hands down without a shadow of a doubt.

Worth every single penny.

ThriceNightly · 11 May 2014 at 12:18

Was thinking of hiring a caterham for a 3-4 day mini tour of wales in the summer. i.e. drive down and swap over at gloucester. Will also be a good extended test drive

http://www.sevenhire.co.uk/index.html

Anyone else done anything like this?

Housey · 11 May 2014 at 12:30

ThriceNightly said:
Was thinking of hiring a caterham for a 3-4 day mini tour of wales in the summer. i.e. drive down and swap over at gloucester. Will also be a good extended test drive

http://www.sevenhire.co.uk/index.html

Anyone else done anything like this?

Good idea but I would negotiate the price as that mileage rate makes it pricey.

Kris_90 · 11 May 2014 at 12:32

mjt said:
If you can afford it, Palmer Sport hands down without a shadow of a doubt.

Worth every single penny.

How much does a day cost with Palmer Sport? It doesn't say on the website so I'm guessing it's expensive

Housey · 11 May 2014 at 12:35

Kris_90 said:
How much does a day cost with Palmer Sport? It doesn't say on the website so I'm guessing it's expensive

£750-£1000 area

Bug One · 11 May 2014 at 13:50

Rodneypooleg said:
Save up more and do a proper day you won't regret and remember for the rest of your life - http://www.palmersport.com

That looks epic.

ThriceNightly · 11 May 2014 at 17:19

Housey said:
Good idea but I would negotiate the price as that mileage rate makes it pricey.

cheers will work out approx mileage and get in touch. I reckon they make a small fortune with the additional mileage surcharge

Puzzled · 11 May 2014 at 17:30

ThriceNightly said:
cheers will work out approx mileage and get in touch. I reckon they make a small fortune with the additional mileage surcharge

Was looking at booking one myself for a day but can't really do much driving with only 120 miles allowance.

VXR performance events used to be good value for money and if you can get yourself on the 1on1 tuition sessions its an absolute bargain.

I haven't been able to find anything that offers the same value, all the others are either way too expensive or only offer a couple of laps.

Sadly you need to be a VXR owner to do the 1o1 sessions and you can only do it once (unless they've changed the rules).

Brando · 11 May 2014 at 19:35

Another vote for Phil Price here

. We had a blast

. Huge amount of fun for the money!

Edit:I also did a Lotus day on a £99 1/2 price that included 9 laps of the National circuit in an Exige S.

+ Another vote for CAT as well. They're drift course in the Caterhams is a lot of fun. That's £350 and you need your own RWD car for the last bit (not really essential but part of the £350 cost).