Ducati Sporting Club UK > General > Idle Chat > Anyone on here do car trackdays?

[Martin Dower]

Originally posted by ak47
55 secs dower?????? in your car???
I'd expect better than that.

Either way, most/all trackdays the companies are not insured for people to be timing their laps so this is all guess work i'd imagine.

lol Alistair, didn't know you frequented this place

Timing at track days is restricted for some reason I can't unplug my DL1 so it seems to record GPS data....etc...

Not sparking a "what is quicker round a track" fight - I am a biker first and a car racer second. A club racer beating 55 seconds is doing that on full slicks, full race Elise versions are knocking on the door of 45 seconds round Indy. Also 1 min 2 secs is 10% slower than 55 seconds (approx) so the bike would get lapped by the car every 8 laps and knocking 7 seconds of your time is actually quite hard to do.

if you are talking standard cars vs bikes then it depends on what you call a standard car. Remember that a well set up Elise driven with commitment will catch a Porky GT3 driven by a less-committed driver. My Lotus is road legal aswell so still counts as being a road car, albeit somewhat track focussed.

Surely some of the track day regulars can post times at Brands Indy. All I was saying was that at the 'Ring only very rarely does a bike go past me and I tend to get seriously held up by the bikes. I remember vividly last year following a bike (Blade I think) into a turn and he had his knee down and was trailing sparks and I was not travelling at maximum speed so could have cornered faster etc...