How many miles on track on a track day?

[magnust]

Was at Mantorp yesterday. Managed to drive 280 km on the track during the day. I think that's the most I've done in a single day on a Swedish track. Quite often I only do half of that. How many miles do you do on a track day?



PS:
I had new cups at the front and pretty worn down cups in the back. I expected the rear tires to be totally bald, flat as a ballroom floor at the end of the day, so I brought along a set of extra wheels to get home on. But after using up almost two tanks of gas during the day the 280 km almost didn't show on the thread depth. And I wasn't holding back at all on the track, rather the contrary. The car is still pretty tail happy (square setup) but more well balanced than last year (it has a better ratio between front and rear camber this year).

A bunch of 1M on the track yesterday and a guy I know that had his quite newly bought M3 GTS on it's first track outing with him at the wheel. Wow that's a nice car! But I actually think I prefer the CSL. Especially if you consider the price. Today I'm of to Bedford and Palmer Motorsport for a full day on the track tomorrow with their GTS-wannabe and their LPM and Formula cars. Am I looking forward to it? Oooooooooohhhh yes!!!

[shimmy]

Tends to be 150-200 miles in dry conditions. Most tracks that's about 50-75 laps

[acidace]

On nürburgring when it's opend from 17h to 19h in the Week I do a 11lap stint, these are about 205km, then I need to refill gas.

On Sundays, if there are not to many accidents I get to 3 stints and some laps, starting at 08h till 19t of course :whistle:.

Last June, we were two drivers amd we did amazing 5 stints, changing
after every stint the driver, we used a set of Cups, new front brake pads, 1.3lt of Oil and some gas :(.

Last october 3thrd, I was with the same friend there and we did 12 laps all day long, but we sunbathed over 5 hours on the Döttinger Höhe...

[magnust]

Tends to be 150-200 miles in dry conditions. Most tracks that's about 50-75 laps

200 miles, hard work :D

[magnust]

On nürburgring...
It's easier to get a lot of km on the ring than on track days but your numbers are IMPRESSING!!!! :119:

[Trawler]

Hi Magnust, hope the full day includes the Atom & Caterham as they are so much fun. Let us know what you thought of all the cars.

Atom: quick, light, precise, great fun
M3: easiest to drive, no surprise there
Caterham:physical but so much fun with all that oversteer

The half day I had the track was wet & dry

[acidace]

It's easier to get a lot of km on the ring than on track days but your numbers are IMPRESSING!!!! :119:It's not impressing, it's just driving arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround:wav:

If there is a trackday with open Pitlane you can drive as much as you want. I perfer to drive "slower" laptimes but long stints without break. Others like some very fast laps and a long break...

The "Trick" no breaks, no talking, just driving. But this is not very social...

[northernjim]

On nürburgring when it's opend from 17h to 19h in the Week I do a 11lap stint, these are about 205km, then I need to refill gas.


11 laps to a tank? that is impressive:beer:

[shimmy]

It's not impressing, it's just driving arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround and arround:wav:

If there is a trackday with open Pitlane you can drive as much as you want. I perfer to drive "slower" laptimes but long stints without break. Others like some very fast laps and a long break...

The "Trick" no breaks, no talking, just driving. But this is not very social...

Like a Sunday outing with the kids and wife?

[alexk]

Last October I did with the Z3C 110 laps at Anneau Du Rhin.
That's > 330km
Endurance race :drool:

[acidace]

11 laps to a tank? that is impressive:beer:But the hardest comes at the End, on the last lap from approx. Wippermann I have 0 km on the fuel cpu... and I needed more then one time a 5lt jerrycan just to get to the gasstation...

At least I have now my private fuel depot at the parking lot :whistle:

[acidace]

Like a Sunday outing with the kids and wife?No Kids and Wife stays at home to much weight in the car :-D. When I am in the Eifel there exists one Motto:

"Better Nürburgring then Weddingring"

[acidace]

Last October I did with the Z3C 110 laps at Anneau Du Rhin.
That's > 330km
Endurance race :drool:Wow, seems you like that Mickey-Mouse Track... How did your front tires ?

[alexk]

Wow, seems you like that Mickey-Mouse Track... How did your front tires ?

When I go to the track I want to drive and not kick tyres at the pits :partyman:
ADR is a nice escape and the Z3C is very good for this track.
It's lighter than the CSL by almost 200 kilos.
The tyres are ok, they could do another 110 laps.

[magnust]

Hi Magnust, hope the full day includes the Atom & Caterham as they are so much fun. Let us know what you thought of all the cars.

Atom: quick, light, precise, great fun
M3: easiest to drive, no surprise there
Caterham:physical but so much fun with all that oversteer

The half day I had the track was wet & dry
Just came back to the hotel after a superb day!

Atom - agree 100% with you
Caterham - yup, agree!
The Formula Jaguar and JP-LM were so nice, well balanced and forgiving to drive too (not only the M3) :drool: The speed you could carry trough the fast sweepers and high speed kinks were just amazing

[shimmy]

Well done :thumbs:

[magnust]

After posting the pic in the previous post I'm just waiting for posts containing the word wanker :hahaha: I'll be posting the videos of all my spins when back at home :D

[magnust]

Palmer Formula Jaguar (comments in the video in Swedish, good luck decoding :hahaha: )
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhfmE7CXdmI


JP-LM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2BSfvgjLfY



If you do happen to understand Swedish I wrote a long trip report here http://rejsa.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=1136914#1136914



I had a HUGE laugh reading google translates english version of my trip report, OMG :hahaha:

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Frejsa.nu%2Fforum%2Fviewtopic.php%3F p%3D1136914%231136914&act=url

[Trawler]

Just came back to the hotel after a superb day!

Atom - agree 100% with you
Caterham - yup, agree!
The Formula Jaguar and JP-LM were so nice, well balanced and forgiving to drive too (not only the M3) :drool: The speed you could carry trough the fast sweepers and high speed kinks were just amazing

Congratulations, you must have driven well in all the cars to win driver of the day. I was pleased with 2nd place on the half day

Sounds like it is worth doing the full day to drive the jag & jp-lm. How much quicker are they?

[magnust]

...the jag & jp-lm. How much quicker are they?
They feel waaaay quicker :thumbs:. Not sure how much quicker they actually are. The speedometer seen in the video gives a hint. No crazy huge numbers there really. The cool thing though is you do notice the downforce working in the quick kinks and sweepers. Fantastic fun!

[Trawler]

They feel waaaay quicker :thumbs:. Not sure how much quicker they actually are. The speedometer seen in the video gives a hint. No crazy huge numbers there really. The cool thing though is you do notice the downforce working in the quick kinks and sweepers. Fantastic fun!

Thanks, the videos looked fun. Any comments from the instructor on the use of kerbs? I was told I used them too much.

[magnust]

Thanks, the videos looked fun. Any comments from the instructor on the use of kerbs? I was told I used them too much.

He was on me ALL the time to use more curbs :-D

Initially they said just barely leave the outer wheels outside the curbs and all the rest of the car on the curb. But even if I did that he pushed me to take even more curb in some particular places. He was really pushing and afterwards he had a good laugh with the instructor from the car in front of us, from their conversation it was very clear they had a race between them with each "pupil" and had great fun doing it. Cool guys :-D He told me he rarely let people race so close but felt it ok this time. Egobooster people pleaser I say :-D Oddly enough he really really urged me to upload the video to youtube.

I can imagine they take a more restrictive approach to the curbs when raining??

[Trawler]

He was on me ALL the time to use more curbs :-D


I can imagine they take a more restrictive approach to the curbs when raining?? Good point.

Must agree the instructors made it a fun time trying to get you to go quicker. Some of the guys admitted they would not give it the full beans & backed off. Felt like it myself sometimes when I could not see through a steamed up visor

[magnust]

The instructor not only has his own brake pedal. He also has his own "remove brake pedal". It felt really strange when I was on the brake into a chicane and suddenly I feel the pedal being pushed back up :119: :thumbs: