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Oulton Park trackday, March 2nd.

Steve PH - 2/1/12 at 11:47 AM

Christmas is over and 2012 is here so we are looking forward to our first trackday of the year at Oulton Park

Trackaction-Online will be back there on Friday March 2nd running an open pitlane on the International Circuit and as ever we will be keeping the numbers sensible so you'll get plenty of tracktime. There will be free instruction available with our handpicked ARDS instructors and Xtreme photography will be there taking photos so you can see how good your car looks on track.

Cost for this one is Ł130 but as a thanks to the clubs that help us to run these days we are repeating our popular free places offer that we introduced last year.

For every five places we sell on here we will give a full refund to one driver!

When you book a place there's a comments box at the end of the booking form, just put LOCOST in the box and a week before the event we will count up the number of entries and for every five that have booked one name will be drawn out of a hat and the lucky winner will be announced on this thread so you can all give them evil glances on the day . If we can get ten together its two free spaces and so on.

Bookings can be made at OUR SHOP, you don't need any discount code to book but don't forget to fill in the comments box with LOCOST to get entered into the draw.

Can't wait to get the season started and looking forward to seeing some of you out there!

Cheers

Steve H

Some shots from when we were there in November -

For every five places we sell on here we will give a full refund to one driver!

daniel mason - 2/1/12 at 12:21 PM
would it not be better to put names of people from here who have booked on this thread and split the cost between each other? this way everyone gets a cheaper day!
also ive never done a trackday but what exactly does open pitlane mean? and whats the db limit? cheers

Nickp - 2/1/12 at 12:36 PM
quote:
Originally posted by daniel mason
would it not be better to put names of people from here who have booked on this thread and split the cost between each other? this way everyone gets a cheaper day!
also ive never done a trackday but what exactly does open pitlane mean? and whats the db limit? cheers

Open pit lane means you can go out whenever you want (subject to the numbers on track at one time) rather than having fixed sessions. Which should give plenty of track time on a long lap like Oulton. Looks like the noise limit is 105dB.
Should be plenty of PPC'ers (including us in our MR2 V6 hopefully) there as they're advertising it too.

Steve PH - 2/1/12 at 01:37 PM
Nicks description is spot on there and 105 is the limit for the day, this is a static done at 3/4 revs. They also do have driveby but we've had no problems with that so long as the car has passed the static.

Regarding the free places offer, we added it in as a bit of a bonus and a thank-you for any of the clubs that get more than five entries, the price is plenty competitive anyway TBH but if any winners want to share their good luck around then that's fine by us

bigfoot4616 - 2/1/12 at 06:36 PM
would be perfect for a first run out for the R1 conversion.
if everything goes to plan it should be ready in time

owelly - 2/1/12 at 07:06 PM
I'll be there if I can get someone else to pay for me......

Nickp - 2/1/12 at 07:08 PM
quote:
Originally posted by owelly
I'll be there if I can get someone else to pay for me......

I'll pay for your dinner mate

owelly - 2/1/12 at 07:12 PM
It would be cheaper to pay the track fee.....

Nickp - 2/1/12 at 07:13 PM
quote:
Originally posted by owelly
It would be cheaper to pay the track fee.....

True

daniel mason - 2/1/12 at 07:18 PM
if we rack up 5 names thats only Ł108 per car. that must be good value. if my car is ready ill come for sure

[Edited on 2/1/12 by daniel mason]

NigeEss - 3/1/12 at 12:30 AM
I'm interested, was going to do the 17th Feb one at Ł99 but there's a better chance on good weather
in March.

welderman - 3/1/12 at 07:32 AM
quote:
Originally posted by bigfoot4616
would be perfect for a first run out for the R1 conversion.
if everything goes to plan it should be ready in time

I'm in the same boat as you fella. If mines ready I might be up for this one too

owelly - 28/2/12 at 12:22 PM
Heads-up and roll call!
Who's going from here?
I was hoping to blag a few laps via PPC Magazine but thats looking unlikely now. My cars isn't quite track-worthy yet so I was borrowing a car for the day, however, Ł130 + Ł140 for fuel to get there to be taking it easy in someone elses car is looking less inviting by the minute!
But I've done dafter things.......
PS, if any late bookees mension my name and PPC Mag, I may get a discount and if I do, I'll buy lunch for the Locosters involved!

Nickp - 28/2/12 at 01:10 PM
I'm not gonna be quite ready either mate. The MR2's close but I haven't got the time to finish it off. I'm gonna sort it next month and get it out on either 14/15th April at Blyton, fancy joining us? Then it'll be off to Mallory for PPCITP in May

Steve PH - 28/2/12 at 05:15 PM
We have got a couple of PPCers on the list fro Friday but this one is fully booked now.

owelly - 28/2/12 at 05:31 PM
OK Steve, I may still have a trip down just to spectate.

owelly - 2/3/12 at 05:09 PM
I was there! Our car was marvellous.
Thanks to those incolved.

Nickp - 2/3/12 at 05:39 PM
quote:
Originally posted by owelly
I was there! Our car was marvellous.
Thanks to those incolved.

Did you carry plenty of hair products on your laps out?

owelly - 2/3/12 at 11:39 PM
Yeah, couldn't move for Jaffas products. Its because he's worth it.

Nickp - 2/3/12 at 11:53 PM
You're the new 'Tony & Guy'

owelly - 3/3/12 at 12:21 AM
Not Gavin and Troy, Laurel and Hardy, Little and Large, Ren and Stimpy, etc.?

Trev Borg - 3/3/12 at 11:26 AM
If you'd been there. you could could have borrowed some of the spare hair products from the little hairdressers car!!

On second thoughts, I don't think you or I really need hair products, just hair. Owelly on the other hand, has a fair bit of hair on the back of his head

And to anyone (this means people not using the 'my cars not ready excuse) that was there, it was a good day out, hope the pair of blithering idiots in the Ł600 hairdressers cars didn't get in your way too much.