my first track day at donnington...

Well I have finally booked for my first track day, on Saturday 27/10/07, and after all this lovely weather it has forcast rain, great!

Still excited though

[G]

Have fun, your braver then me lol

I'm waiting until i have gauranteed weather for my first proper bike trackday.

Donnington is supposed to be super sticky in the dry but in the wet a bugger because of the unburnt fuel from the landing flight path above......all speculation from what others have said, no first hand experience of it.

[Skip]

I did a trackday at Donington a couple of weeks ago - it really is a mind blowing circuit! Only corner you really need to have your wits about you is Coppice - loads of people went off there as you need to have tipped the bike in before you can see where the corner is going! Take the first session nice and slow so you know where everything goes - by the end of the day you will be totally in love with it as I was!

Have been watching stuff on u tube, but have decided to leave that alone now and just concentrate on enjoying it and learning it when I'm there! Have been checking my bike over, everything is fine, except I am fitting new rear brake pads tomorrow, will have to bed them in on the way up there!

Hoping to sort out a video so I can be a sad cow and watch it at home (and show the kids!), be nice to put my bike (and me) through its paces without worrying about something pulling out on me!

[Skip]

I hunted high on and low on YouTube etc for a video that conveys the elevation changes and nothing will prepare you for it! Coming down the Craner Curves you see bikes in front of you almost disappear!

donington is fantastic - you'll have a blast I guarantee

Hey Esther, how,dya get on at Donnington then ?

Cool. I really must do this track. My first track day was on the Nurburgring in the p*ssing rain. Still, the way I see it everything else will be easy now!

[dirtydog]

Originally Posted by Skip

I hunted high on and low on YouTube etc for a video that conveys the elevation changes and nothing will prepare you for it! Coming down the Craner Curves you see bikes in front of you almost disappear!

Oh yeah! I did Donny in september and it was awesome!

Abosolutely fantastic day. Very greasey to start, got some nice jiggles off the cbr. Then dried out nicely. My average lap time was 2.30 over the full circuit, which is not bad for a first time on a bog standard cbr600f (IMHO!) Video camera failed and pictures not great, but will post the few I got.

Loved it, nice to be aggressive without thinking about trucks!

Other half is sick of hearing about it now ... poor him, I am going to go on for days and days and days ....... thumbs up to him though, pit man, caterer, physio, and best mate