bedford autodrome is a cracking circuit as a beginners track day lots of safe run off if you do get it wrong well organised and run event ,i did it at the start of the year in my mk4 which is mainly a road car one thing i would recommend would be to upgrade the brake pads to a decent set which will stand upto the hammering they'll get i fitted new pagid pads all round and cooked them after a few laps we were managing to do around 4 laps before we had to let the brakes cool ,spare set of wheels and tyres would also be a good option if you dont want to kill your road tyres ,