Donington Open Pit Lane Saturday 23rd Nov £109

My next day is booked. Fellow drivers or spectators welcome

http://www.focusedevents.com/trackday-de...59371e1e79a3886

What weather have you booked? If its sunny, I might be tempted

I've just booked and paid. First trackday for the coupe so should be fun. Done donny before but in a civic type r and my bro's m3.
Hopefully it will be dry.

Yes, this one will be sunny

Are you taking the coupe or the clio? i had one too.

Very tempted.

I take it this is short circuit rather than GP?
The Link also says 98db limit - it's pushing it for either the RX7 or the MK on drive by - is it one black flag and off for the rest of the day with Focussed these days?

last time i was at donny with javelin, to my knowledge, nobody was black flagged for being too loud and that was 98db limit and alot of cars sounded alot louder than 98db.

We had no issues with an m3 with scorpion system and civic type r with mongoose system.

Hopefully its the national circuit (short) much better than the gp circuit.

I was ok in the Westfield last time. It's pretty loud, but maybe not as loud as the RX or MK, Si??

I haven't had a coupe for many years



Given the price, I'd expect it to the the shorter National circuit.

I think it's down to the circuit rather than the TDO. When I was too loud in the MK they were very good, they gave me a couple of chances, keep the revs down etc. That was in 2011, I'm not sure what it's like now.

Your RX7 is very loud Suba (sounds great), I doubt it would pass at Donington? I'm in Spain then sadly.

Gp circuit is awesome!

Mk is definitely louder than 98 drive by,but could bolt on extra exhaust bits to get by. The rx might just get by, do iwant to risk it?

National circuit might also help as you are not screaming at the top of 2nd when you go onto the pitlane straight.

I've got a 9" bolt on exhaust tip you can borrow. Well actually it's Senny Daves, but I don't think he'll mind

Careful, Marco will be after you (nothing like taking the post out of context )

It's black as well... And it might be longer than 9" as it was dragging on the floor and wore away on one side

Very Tempted by this one.

Bargain at this price for donnington.

Not really, for what will be a Focused Events chaotic day with around 90-100 cars signed on. They've offered these prices for some time now.

My only concern with FE are the doubts over their fragile existence - weren't they were in receivership earlier this year?

That was Easytrack Dan. Focused Events has gone back to their core which is bike days to some degree.

It will be busy but that's why it's cheap. I'm going on the basis that the idiots are less likely to be in attendance given the colder weather etc etc.

Largely agree Jonny.

Wasn't confusing them with Easytrack (whose days were infinitely better run that FE!) - but you paid a little more for a little less traffic and queuing and chaos!

FE have barely run a car track day this year, wasn't there a reason behind this?

I can't see I big turnout at this time of year. That's what I'm hoping for at least.

I've done a bike trackday before with FE and all was fine. This will be the first with them for the car. I usually book with javelin.

Ah, that's what I'm remembering - FE booked a few dates at Mallory, only to pull them close to the actual dates. Then customers had issues with refunds or alternative days offered at Brands Hatch.

Who's in for this one then? I'm booked and paid and will be attending in the coupe.

On the noise issue at Donny, last time I went they were pretty strict on the noise limit but maybe that was because it was a Sunday

I was black-flagged even on the warm-up/sighting laps at 9.30am, not the ideal start - i had to keep the revs/speed down to the extent even MattM got close to me

92db I believe it was.

I didn't have any issues last time in a type r. It was 98db same as this time. I'm taking the coupe this time though.

It was, and mine during sighting/warm was 104db

104db is pretty loud..lol

Yeah, but he's all noise and no pace. You don't miss him when you pass him that's for sure

Donington is bloody daft re noise limits anyway. It's nowhere near residential property, and slap bang next to East Midlands Airport, with planes passing overhead every few minutes at a great deal more than 98db!

When I did the GP circuit earlier this year the limit was 102!

Who's attending this trackday then?
Only a week left if anyone is interested.

Looks like it's just us Just replaced a dodgy injector, so it should be ready to go. May have two brothers in law and two friends in tow to spectate.

I have my brother going and a mate with a escort turbo van. Should be a good day if it doesn't snow which I'm sure it won't. Sunshine all day my prediction is. Haha

I've read reports that the previous Focused Events day here a few weeks ago was well run and quiet...

So there are places left at £109 and it's going to be dry and maybe even sunny

Does anyone know if its the GP or national circuit on saturday???

It'll be the national circuit

You'd expect it for the price, but the FE event two weeks ago was the full GP circuit. It'll be a surprise!

It's definitely the GP curcuit, it shows on the info for the day.

Awesome day on the GP circuit The Clio outperformed my expectations in the dry, the handling is awesome, especially turn in . It just needs an uprated gearbox mount, other than that it was fantastic. Nothing any quicker other than the silly power Escorts and Imprezas.

Quite a few red flags but they were quickly cleared. Only 40 attendees and I found all but one to have good driving standards

Over 60 laps so it couldn't have been too bad

Yeah really good day and nice and quiet on track.

http://youtu.be/lr63VYnixR4

Here's one of my mate in his. He was new to the track so taking his time a bit.

http://youtu.be/tY8m0A4nwDk

And another later in the day:

http://youtu.be/XYmFqiZ-j6k

Here's a video in HD finally. For some reason they had uploaded on crap quality before:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_nQ0WyZkLg