[johnnyrod]

Bunkle's experience is fairly typical of novices on TDs. The organisers make some effort to put real novices in the novice group but there are plenty of people who have just booked it because the day was full in inters/fast or they're just knobs, and the TD organiser either does nothing or doesn't have space in the other groups to shift them out. The real novices tend to ride all over the track anyway but adding in a few faster ones to scare them doesn't really help. Even as someone who's done a fair few days, I still feel like they mainly just take your money and send you off to do what you like.

DW22 that does sound like fair value, though as said there will still be a limited number of instructors, you are mainly paying for extra track time. At Silverstone last year they had a premium group with Troy Corser, was basically the same as a normal TD but he did some talks on technique and was out riding so talked to a few people.

I think there is a gap in the TD training market; people want to try them out but it can be quite daunting for various reasons, and once they have taken the plunge, they run out of ways to get better by just riding around on their own. The market itself will tell you how well this goes down, your price positioning etc. There are also plenty of people who don't give a crap how good their riding is, they just do it anyway, but they're already catered for.