Bruntingthorpe On Your Marks 2014

Grinzzz

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Andyk said:
Yes Phil...suprised me to be honest going past those TVR's....I had a T350T and would have never thought the M£ had the legs against it....
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Theres a lot of mixed abilities there Andy. I passed a GTR coming out of the chicane in the morning, must have been before he got his eye in! And I suspect a lot of people don't push the cars and are only giving it a little bit more than they would on the road.
 
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I was giving quite a lot more than I would on the road, but I'm rubbish
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Grinzzz

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I'm a pootler on the road and, compared to some of the guys I've taken instruction off, I'm the same on the track. Just amazing to see what some people can get cars to do.
 
highlander

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think my name will need to be removed guys. i'm insured with tesco and for some reason they are not willing to add on a charity day organised by asda.......can't think why! have tried adrian flux and a couple of others but they will not offer insurance for this unless I'm insured with them.........so think I'm stuffed unless someone knows an agent who will do 1 day stuff:frusty5::conf1::frusty5:
 
Grinzzz

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Just google "track day insurance", loads come up. No idea what sort of price but doubt they're that expensive.

Edited to add: 99% of them are additional cover for a specified number of track days - they're not replacements for your current policy.
 
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I'm with admiral, and phoned them last year to ask about cover. Told them I was taking part in a private charity event at a car proving and test centre (Bruntingthorpe is not classified as a race track!) where I would be driving members of the public round as passengers for a charitable donation. Told them it was Bruntingthorpe. They checked with their underwriter and told me it was ok, I was covered and they would add a clause to my certificate to that end just to make sure. Luckily I didn't have to test them on it.

Try it, be open and honest with them, don't mention the words track or race and see what they say.
 
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Chrisbassett said:
I'm with admiral, and phoned them last year to ask about cover. Told them I was taking part in a private charity event at a car proving and test centre (Bruntingthorpe is not classified as a race track!) where I would be driving members of the public round as passengers for a charitable donation. Told them it was Bruntingthorpe. They checked with their underwriter and told me it was ok, I was covered and they would add a clause to my certificate to that end just to make sure. Luckily I didn't have to test them on it.

Try it, be open and honest with them, don't mention the words track or race and see what they say.
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tried it but no joking, the guy on the end of the phone (from tesco insurance) laughed down the phone when I said it was an asda event!!!
have a few more I found with a search to try but thought someone might know an agent who deals with single events and save me repeating myself over, and over, and over.......
 
Grinzzz

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Have you done trackdays before, any advanced driver training or high speed handling courses? If so make sure you tell them that. Have a look on pistonheads or some of the trackday forums, I guess this must come up a lot.
 
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Grinzzz said:
Have you done trackdays before, any advanced driver training or high speed handling courses? If so make sure you tell them that. Have a look on pistonheads or some of the trackday forums, I guess this must come up a lot.
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cheers, will try there. no, not done anything like tracks before. seen this as a good opportunity to "ease" into it.
 
Grinzzz

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Could try competition car insurance they used to be good but haven't had dealings with them for a while. Also

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Petbri

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Would love to do this but only just bought the car and with no track day experience this looks probably a bit too hairy for me just yet. I think I may bring the family and come as spectators and just pay some of you guys to show me how it should be done! Check it out for doing it for real next year.
 
highlander

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ok, sorted hotel for fri/sat nights and sorted insurance............now just fingers crossed the ol' girl keeps going and gets all the way from one end of country to tuther!:saifi3:
petbri - never done track myself either.........has to be 1st time for everything!
 
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That's great news Highlander....As soon as I get more details for the day I will post.....Passes etc....
 
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highlander said:
ok, sorted hotel for fri/sat nights and sorted insurance............now just fingers crossed the ol' girl keeps going and gets all the way from one end of country to tuther!:saifi3:
petbri - never done track myself either.........has to be 1st time for everything!
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Glad you managed to sort it!

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Would love to do this but only just bought the car and with no track day experience this looks probably a bit too hairy for me just yet. I think I may bring the family and come as spectators and just pay some of you guys to show me how it should be done! Check it out for doing it for real next year.
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Brunty is pretty tame, the only way you'll get much better is a private track hire. Lots of cars aren't driven at anywhere near the limit, just out giving passengers a ride. You can drive most of it just like a road; so long as you keep your eyes open for fast cars at the end of the runway (not much harder than joining a busy motorway) its absolutely fine.
 
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