Makalu

Question...

There are 18 permanent race track venues in the UK. Name ten of them.

Mak.

chrisp

donno
silverstone
cadwell park
mallory park
knockhill
brands hatch
castle coombe
snetterton
rockingham
oulton park
M25

Paulo P

iTrader: (42)

1. silverstone
2. brands hatch
3. oulton park
4. castle combe
5. thruxton
6. knockhill
7. croft
8. donington park
9. malory (sp) park
10. anglesea ?

ian_sadler

1. Silverstone
2. Brandshatch
3. Donington.
4. Snetterton (sp?)
5. Thruxton.
6. Rockingham
7. Knockhill
8. Goodwood
9. Oulton Park
10. Castle Coombe
11. Mallory Park
12. Cadwell Park
13. Penbury
14. Lyddon ?

Pete Croney

1) Anglesey
2) Brands Hatch
3) Cadwell Park
4) Castle Combe
5) Croft
6) Donington Park
7)Goodwood
8)Jurby, Isle of Man
9)Kirkistown, N Ireland
10)Knockhill
11)Lydden Hill
12)Mallory Park
13)Oulton Park
14)Pembrey
15)Rockingham
16)Silverstone
17)Snetterton
18)Thruxton

Makalu

Pete you show off!....



Mak.

ian_sadler

In alphabetical order as well Pete.

Which book and/or search engine did that come out of?

Ian

barge

what about the drag strips, they are known as race tracks as well

ChrisB

You forgot the local one-way system on a Saturday night...

snowcrash

what the M25?

Pete Croney

I had to check the NI one. I thought it was Montello Park, but that's Eire.

There are others that could be considered too... Three Sisters, Aintree.

johnfelstead

1) Anglesey driven
2) Brands Hatch driven
3) Cadwell Park driven
4) Castle Combe driven
5) Croft been there
6) Donington Park driven
7)Goodwood been there
8)Jurby, Isle of Man never been
9)Kirkistown, N Ireland never been
10)Knockhill driven
11)Lydden Hill never been
12)Mallory Park driven
13)Oulton Park driven
14)Pembrey been there
15)Rockingham driven
16)Silverstone driven
17)Snetterton driven
18)Thruxton never been

Also driven Three Sisters, Aintree, Curborough, Santa Pod, porlock hill, harewood hill, olivers mount, nurburgring (i know its not in the uk, but its awesome )

Mark_TM

Nuttscorner, N. Ireland
Bishopscourt, N.Ireland

johnfelstead

Interestingly Rockingham is the only perminant track not listed in the MSA yearbook 2002?

All the other venues outside the 18 are not clasified by the MSA as racetracks, they are speed venues.

Pete Croney

John

What's your favourite out of the UK ones you've driven?

I'm torn between Oulton Park full circuit and Cadwell Park. Then again, Donington is always special for me too.

OK, I'll settle for Cadwell.

Pete Croney

Also, Bedford isn't listed as they aren't allowed to hold races there, due to planning laws.

johnfelstead

Very difficult one to answer because they are all different and have sections of track that stand out. Overall I would have to say Cadwell Park is the most fun, it’s pretty dangerous in a few places and once you start pushing hard it’s incredibly technical. I love the gooseneck through the mountain section and onto the bottom straight in particular. I think the short track without the mountain is a waste of time though. Cadwell was the first track I ever drove on a trackday, although I had rallied on Aintree, Oulton Park and Three sisters years before.

1) Anglesey is manic, you don’t get a moments rest in a quick car, a lightweight car is the thing to have here.
2) Brands Hatch has one of the best corners in the world with paddock hill bend, the rest of the Indy circuit doesn’t stand out.
3) Cadwell Park is a stunning roller coaster ride, very fast in places. It’s the only place I used to get all 4 wheels off the ground apart from the nurburgring.
4) Castle Combe I found boring, it would be more challenging without the new chicanes
6) Donington Park is a fantastic fast circuit, very safe, ideal for a first time track driver. Craner curves is awesome but can catch the inexperienced out badly, once you lose it there you are unlikely to catch it. The rest of the track is a bit sterile, still fun but not something that makes me grin. Maybe I have driven it too many times?
10)Knockhill is another manic circuit, the best section is Duffus dip to Brabhams, I love the jump downhill at butchers.
12)Mallory Park is all about Gerards, awesome corner if you are committed and always a bitch to get the exit right.
13)Oulton Park is probably my second favourite, most of the corners have something special about them. Island bend is fabulous but also very very dangerous, if you come off there you are in big trouble. I hate knickerbrook chicane (known as $hit corner by the marshals), it used to be a superb overtaking corner but was sanitised into a chicane after Paul Warwick was killed there in F3000. Lodge and dear leap are fantastic in a fast RWD car.
15)Rockingham is strange, I found it a huge laugh for about 2 hours then I got seriously bored with it. It’s too mickey mouse on the infield, taking the banking is harder than it looks if you are trying, the car feels all wrong through there and its quite daunting trying to find the limits with a concrete wall waiting to smash your car to pieces. I drove it just a week after it opened, so maybe it is better now with some rubber down?
16)Silverstone GP is great in a few places, you need a pretty quick car to make it interesting though. Copse is superb if you attack it, it’s faster than it looks. Beckets is great fun, the exit of stowe can be difficult at high speed, bridge is great, the rest is a bit dull although carrying speed through woodcote onto the pits straight can get a bit interesting as it funnels to quite a narrow straight, I wouldn’t want to spin there.
17)Snetterton is fast, the bomb hole and coram curve are the best sections, I had a big moment out of sear corner once at high speed that changed my opinion of that corner. LOL

None of these come close to the Nurburgring though. That has a bit of every circuit in the UK and some very special sections unlike anywhere else in the world. One minute you can be doing 150MPH with your foot to the boards in a 2G compresion, the next your airborn at 120MPH, the next your fighting for grip at 40MPH in a tight downhill off camber right left right series of corners and there isnt a chicane in sight! It's a real challenge to remember the track, being 13.5 miles and 170 corners long. 2 laps of a UK track and i know pretty much how to take it, i am still learning the ring after 100 laps and expect i always will be.