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Offline Kpow99

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RWYB
« on: 26 April 2021, 11:09 »
I know there is the events section etc but this is by far the busiest section so giving it a go here.

So one one of my friends has bought me a Race What You Bring session at Santa Pod later this year! :grin:

She's very kindly entered me in the performance car section  :shocked: bless her, blew her socks off when I took her for first spin so I can see why lol So before I go back to Santa Pod with my silly questions I thought I'd ask here.

Has anyone done this at SP before?  They asked her if I have performance tyres and she cluelessly said yes, but I'm clueless too, would PS4S be classed as performance?  What sort of cars would be running in that class and should I drop down a class maybe?  Not like a new career move but just don't want to get smoked all the time lol

Also insurance, my insurance doesn't cover for track days, are there specialists that cover just for the day and who have you used?

Something I've always wanted to do and would be great to see how my Revo Stage 1 has affected performance overall.
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Offline MrJollygood

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Re: RWYB
« Reply #1 on: 26 April 2021, 12:07 »
Hi,

I have used Moris Track Day insurance before when I had my Elise - think a few Lotus guys use them:

https://trackday.moris.co.uk/

Prices were ok (think it was about £75 for the day)

Can't help with your other questions (just ring Santa Pod) but def want to see pics / videos after the event! :)

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Re: RWYB
« Reply #2 on: 26 April 2021, 12:12 »
Hi,

I have used Moris Track Day insurance before when I had my Elise - think a few Lotus guys use them:

https://trackday.moris.co.uk/

Prices were ok (think it was about £75 for the day)

Can't help with your other questions (just ring Santa Pod) but def want to see pics / videos after the event! :)

Thanks, I'll take a look.  i have front and rear dashcams but I'll get a phone holder too to put up in the windscreen to get better view.  I think I have a few runs to do.  Give me a chance to try Launch Control too.  I'll def post...unless something else happens lol
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Re: RWYB
« Reply #3 on: 26 April 2021, 12:33 »
Might be overthinking this. Turn up, sign-on, sit in the queue, launch up the strip, repeat as many times as you can.

They might vaguely try and put similar vehicles together but as it's not a contest, you are really just trying to improve your own time.

I'd never even considered insurance for a 1/4 mile, it's not a track in the normal sense. Not sure what risk you would even be insuring against?
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Offline MrJollygood

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Re: RWYB
« Reply #4 on: 26 April 2021, 15:30 »
True.

However, if it was me, for the sake of £75 I'd prefer the peace of mind...

« Last Edit: 26 April 2021, 20:48 by MrJollygood »
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Offline Ryan90GTI

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Re: RWYB
« Reply #5 on: 26 April 2021, 23:09 »
Might be worth checking if you can even run a separate policy alongside your main policy. I know my insurance company don't for my motorbike.

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Re: RWYB
« Reply #6 on: 27 April 2021, 14:06 »
Just don’t google “drag race accidents” before signing up  :whistle:  :laugh:

Only joking! I’ve no idea what they would throw up but will assume some spectacular top fuel dragster wipe outs!

I’ve never done a RWYB session at Santa but have watched plenty when I used to attend some of the (water cooled) VW events there in a past life. Same for the sprint at GTI International.

The strip at Santa had/has a special coating and needs the tyres to be warm for proper traction.
There are proper barriers between the lanes and proper licenced safety measures etc.

Id class the PS4S as decent enough quality to run that class but you might well need to replace the fronts after a few sessions! Some proper race tyres might shave a few hundredths of a second (which is the difference between first and second under race conditions) but not really going to make the blindest difference to a first timer. Reaction times are what it’s about.
It’ll be great fun in a DSG as the car will do all the hard work, all you have to do is perfect your launch control techniques.

As for insurance, what will it actually cover? Not an awful lot I’d imagine but your road car insurance will be nul and void for sure. Unless you get a blowout there’s not a lot to go wrong and I doubt any insurance would cover it in the incredibly unlikely event your car caught fire.
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Offline Kpow99

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Re: RWYB
« Reply #7 on: 27 April 2021, 19:32 »
Thanks all.

Well…as it turns out the event I’m registered for is for performance car running, ie proper performance cars for fine tuning and tweaking for racing and I need race tyres 🤦🏻‍♂️ So trying to change to another more suitable session 🤣
« Last Edit: 27 April 2021, 19:50 by Kpow99 »
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Re: RWYB
« Reply #8 on: 27 April 2021, 19:53 »
Still have a supercar track day and British classics track day, looking forward to the DB5 and Lotus Cortina 😁

And something for the man cave…when I get one 🙈🤣



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