What's Your Favorite Circuit?

[corned]

Mention of Anglesey reminds me of an old colleague who did a track day there in 2000 or 2001 in his 911SC Targa. He heard a big bang and lost a lot of power, but managed to limp off the circuit, and indeed limp back home to Leeds - a journey of some 150 miles.

The big bang was the valve rocker assembly in one head breaking up!!

 

[moonloops]

Lydden Hill, Pembrey, Donnington and Silverstone GP circuits all good.

I like Mallory Park but have never driven on it.

 

[Lugy]

Yup have spun twice over the years after getting duffus and subsequently mcintyre all wrong

Always been due to the torrential rain though

or diesel on the road

The ring terrifies me

Done that in a very tail happy Vectra. At 70mph it's pretty eye opening

 

[bigyin1]

My first track experience was when i was 17 in a V12 E-type round a wet knockhill, so i like it there! Beyond that, Cadwell on a bike is incredible, never been there in a car so can't comment on that, the "ring" is so much more than just a circuit so needs its own category and very daunting and scary due to it's size. Silverstone is good, so is Donington.

I'm off to Monza tomorrow so i'll reserve my jugement until i get back.

 

[Ajenks]

My first track experience was when i was 17 in a V12 E-type round a wet knockhill, so i like it there! Beyond that, Cadwell on a bike is incredible, never been there in a car so can't comment on that, the "ring" is so much more than just a circuit so needs its own category and very daunting and scary due to it's size. Silverstone is good, so is Donington.

I'm off to Monza tomorrow so i'll reserve my jugement until i get back.

The e type jag, now theres a car. It was the first car I ever wanted to own, I am old enough to remember them when they were new, I was too young to own one when they came out to stuppid to buy one when they were not as popular in the earlies 80s*
and to poor since the 90 when they became a classic.

*I will never forget being over taken by one on the M4 can't remember the year but it must of been late 60s early seventies coz we were living in Swindon and that where I saw it, we had an Austin, the jag looked like it came from a different planet. My dad would be flat out at probaly 55mph * And the car fkashed by us gleaming red with the top down now rhats motoring,

And i got to drive ome in the the late 90s a girl Used to go out with lived on a farm and one day we were walking about the barns like you do and their was this car under a sheet, I instantly knew whet car it was, I said Jesus ( sorry if your religious) it's an e type - yer she said it's my dads car he has two of them there is an old wreak in the other barn he has been meaning to do up.

Cut a long story short I got to drive the car, and it was everything I had ever imagined (short drive though 5/6miles)

The e type the car I always wanted that I will never own**

 

[bigyin1]

Well Monza was fun An amazing array of cars, one time when I looked up from my laptop i had this view:

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which won't be repeated again in my lifetime!!!

So to answer the question - My favourite track is Monza. The location, atmosphere, track itself, just everthing is amazing.

 

[Mactech]

I have been very lucky to have had the opportunity to drive a huge number of circuits over my years in motorsport. Many of them have vey special sections, or very special memories or parts which I never got close to mastering.
Amongst my favourites must be Nurburgring. It was the scene of my first motorsport win as a team member (F2 1978!) and then I got paid to drive what was then the world’s fastest road car round there for 3 weeks!
I love Oulton in a car and on a bike and as a kid I met Jim Clark there.
Cadwell is the best place I know for a motorcycle track day, and having spent two years working at Bedford Autodrome, I think that is the safest place to learn about car control.
A ride with Brundle in a Le Mans Jaguar round the full GP circuit at Silverstone makes that one rather special….
Circuits are where you can drive or ride to the limits and that’s what makes them special. The roads are just not the place for it!

 

[Ade B]

Glad someone said Lydden

My most fun eyeballs out riding was there and it ended in A&E ... albeit with fairly minor (painful) injuries.. my brother nearly killed himself and the bike there at the following visit..

I have souvenir gravel from Brands Hatch shaken from the fairing after a silly off at Druids so another fun experience.

Worst day, torrential rain at Silverstone (smaller circuit).

Most frightening (apart from the above) Oulton Park

In a car I've been passenger around the ring, I would never take a bike there..

Ade