Why You Should Do A Trackday
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2023
- Have you ever wondered why the idea of trackdays makes our brains race with anxiety? Well, in this video, I'm diving deep into the world of trackday fears and how to conquer 'em.
Picture this: you're out there on the track, heart pounding, worried about crashing your beloved ride. But guess what? I've been there, too. I'll spill the beans on how to shake off that fear of crashing and embrace the adrenaline.
And don't even get me started on that nagging thought - "What if everyone else is faster?" Trust me, it's a common worry. We'll talk about strategies to boost your confidence and show that throttle who's boss.
But wait, there's more! Ever stressed about wear and tear on your car after a high-speed day? Yep, been there as well. I've got some tips and tricks to keep your machine purring smoothly.
So, if you're ready to kick those trackday fears to the curb and kickstart your driving excitement, hit that play button. Together, we'll own the track and the thrill!
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I'm just pausing this video halfway to comment and say that I have the BIGGEST smile on my face while watching this! The instructor is a true gem. I did my first track day yesterday at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut, United States, in my brand new 911 992 GTS Cabriolet. The experience absolutely changed me. ...and now back to this delightful video.
Mick, you're an AWESOME person. Thanks for being you and doing what you do and sharing it with us! 🙏
Damnnnnnnnnnn thank you! Huge praise. I'll try to live up to it mate
*I'm just pausing this video halfway to comment and say that I have the BIGGEST smile on my face while watching this! The instructor is a true gem. I did my first track day yesterday at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut, United States, in my brand new 911 992 GTS Cabriolet. The experience absolutely changed me. ... And now back to this delightful video.
Good punctuation overall! Nice grammar and vocabulary.
One of the few car youtubers that I could watch for hours talking about cars🔥🔥. Fully underatted. Keep it up mate 🔥
Haha thank you!!
I feel the same way, love his style. Laid back, informative and entertaining
Thanks for calling out my ditchfinders 😅 they did give noticeable understeer when pushing but still fun to drive. Was great meeting and driving with you, hope to catch you at another!
No way! Hi mate! Agreed, I really enjoyed my time. Was really fun chatting and driving with you 👊
As a guy whole done track days in Porsches for the last 10yrs, and a premium user of YT, this was a liberating video. Really enjoyed your down to earth style and no nonsense BS. It was fun to watch how the tuition let you carry that speed of yours through the bends. It’s true what you said about self preservation. New sub from Norway!
Great video again Mick, some good pointers, it’s a track day not a race day, leave your ego in the pit lane and most of all (have fun) well done mick 👌🏼
Thanks mate!
Advice for first track day, get that instruction early in the day. Do your sighting laps, go out, do 10 or so laps, then get a professional to sit by you. I bet you feel like you wasted a chunk of the day driving too slowly. Accept you will be useless. You will have never driven the car so fast and you will not know what it is capable of. It takes , I’d say, 5 track days to even appreciate what you need to start working on. Trust the instructor. Maybe have another driving session with the same one in the afternoon. They are in another driving world to you. Forget what you think you know and listen hard. You’ll realise this if they steer a few corners for you from the passenger seat, or if they yank the steering to where they want the car when you thought you were on the limit of grip. You will hopefully get a debrief after the sessions, this is when you’ll learn the most. Try and get one corner right each track day. Do not set your goals higher than this.
Love this. I'm aiming for another track day in the new year and will follow this advice. Thanks.
I keep nagging the 'other half' to do a track day, I'm itching to get my classic Cooper Sport on the bends 😁💚. Brilliant video made me smile 😁🇬🇧.
Do it!
I honestly think this is one of my best videos, shame not many people watched it
There is no BS on this channel, and I love it. You are very down to earth person - just an ordinary bloke. You are not ashamed of admiting that you are not pro. Kudos for that!
I've been waiting for you to make a video about your track day experience. The fears that you mentioned - they all ocurred to me. Good that you pointed that out. Although I had different struggles as well (fear of destroying the gearbox in particular).
The oversteer moment that you experienced is called brake oversteer. That and lift-off oversteer are (to my knowledge) the only oversteer types that can occur in FWD. Can be really scary when that rear end starts to dance 😁
But man, that feeling of achievement when you tame the beast - it's intoxicating!
You also had a very good instructor that kept adding new things (such as trail braking) as you did more and more laps.
I'm only not sure about the helmet. Idk if it's required on that track, but modern cars have all kinds of airbags (including air curtains), so you would be safer without helmet than with it.
Using helmet in a car with front airbag can only cause whiplash (due to increased weight on the head and being closer to the airbag when it pops). Helmets are recommended though when you don't have airbags, have a rollcage and 4 or more point harness.
Keep the videos coming!
Thank you so much mate! So many kind words!
I do recon having a manual car would add another dimension of difficulty and I was very thankful for the dual clutch box.
It's funny, I had fully come off the brakes (and was actually on maintenance throttle) so I recon it had more to do with the way the corner falls down towards the outside. Scary but very fun!
I would agree with the helmet! Seemed pointless to me. Plus I had the added issue of wearing a motorcycle helmet which meant I had to tilt my seat further back than usual as it kept hitting the headrest.
Overall a cracking time though!
@@MickDrivesCars IMO, manuals are amazing for the road. But with automatic on track, you can focus more on corner entry and braking, making you faster. I know that we're not racing car drivers, but I would rather master oversteer control than some heel-toe witchcraft. Therefore, I ordered myself a car with DCT, just like you. Also, it's worth mentioning that track work makes us safer on the road (as long as we're not lunatics lol)
@@dsitum Couldn't agree more!
Only thing is the track time has given me a better understanding of the limits of the car. So I've found myself flirting with those limits more often on the road, which isn't really a good idea
@@MickDrivesCars It's okay if visibility is good I guess, and if you're not endangering anyone. Blind corners are the worst, and I don't want to be responsible for killing or disabling someone's child or husband 😉
@@dsitum I’m not so sure it does. Two very different skill sets.
that instructor is so good.
100%. Colin Tester - give him a follow he deserves it
fantastic vid, joy to watch actually. Cheers
Thanks man!
Mick, this now is a video you drop on a Sunday. Love it!
Haha thanks man!!! I'm here same time every week :)
Ah waited for this episode!
I loved this one!
Depends on track and driving skills. On the Nurburgring standard brakes will probably fade after one or 1 lap already.
it's like beating your own car to death, that puts me down really (as a shitbox owner)
The cars can take it - engines get run at redline for 100k+ miles during development
This video is a gem. Do you think you need more track oriented brake pads on normal set of brakes not brembos. I think the kind of car already has some slightly more sporty oriented brake pads. Love watching your videos...one of my fav youtubers.
Legend! Thank you. It's one of the videos I'm most proud of!
I had fresh EBC yellow stuff pads for the trackday. I had no issues braking at all.
would definetly love to give one a go but a bit too expensive and still not sure on the wear and tare. might just stick to auto solos. just love keeping the longevity of my cars and more worried about the engine
I really should have mentioned in the video but this trackday was £129 :)
Oh man that looks so cool! And what a lovely day in terms of weather you found. Love the raw reactions of genuine joy :) Weren't there any moments at which you were worried some more careless driver would cause a collision with your car? That's the main reason why I would not sign up for a trackday. What happens when someone crashes into you anyway? Do the same rules as on public roads surrounding insurance apply?
Can't say this even crossed my mind. Everyone was very respectful, left loads of space and was just there for a good time.
No, the same rules do not apply. Road insurance does not cover track days. You break your car, you pay, someone else breaks your car, you pay. You break the Armco, you pay. Other drivers are not too much of a problem though. Overtaking is by consent and racing/poor attitude with get you kicked off. If this is a concern, joint a club specific to you vehicle and do a track day with them. Less hot head teenagers in modified, stripped out wrecks.
The brake fade if you experienced it is probably down to your brake fluid so it’s a good idea to upgrade that to something like I use, Castrol SRF but yes a standard set of pads will do a day but you would be better off swapping them over for the track day to a better set more track focused.
I had on EBC yellowstuff - brand new for this day. Worked well but I think in future I'd just buy the £70 brembo budget's tbh
@@MickDrivesCars if you plan on doing more track days buy Winmax W5, they will last 10 days so works out cheaper at £30 a day and your brakes will be twice as good but do not skimp on the fluid, it’s the most important thing.
I'm more worried about the turbo in my Cooper S leaking oil if I'm at full beans for more than a few seconds at a time.
Hello Mick.
Hope you’re good mate. Enjoying your videos.
Can I ask if you need to change your tires after a track day? I have had this from other people before and one of my mates took his Porsche GT down to the track didn’t change the ties afterwards and ended up writing up off his car very soon after due to lack of grip. For context I drive a IBMW G20 330i
Nope.
I did this trackday on a fresh set of Goodyear Eagle Asymmetric 6 tyres. Drive there, sent the car, melted the edge of the tyres, drive back home, continued to drive normally. I went for a spirited drive in some mountain roads yesterday and the tyres perform as good as new. I'm still using them today.
@@MickDrivesCars which track is it?
Your welcome to join me at Brands on the 18th of September I’ll be doing the full GP track in my MK4 Trophy R
Do you think you will take your m2 on here?
Unfortunately the closest track from me is around 1200kms away, sucks that my state has no tracks, never had the opportunity to have that fun
damn that sucks HARD
Spirited driving on the road is the only way for you
@@MickDrivesCars something I struggle with is to know How fast I can take a corner, do you have any videos about It? And there arent margins for error in the roads 😬
What kind of helmet do you have? I want to go do some track days but a decent helmet is €500-600 and it does not seem to me like that is something one should cheap out on.
I was wearing a £600 bell helmet that I crashed in when I was a biker
Honest if I wanted a helmet for trackdays I would buy a £50 open face jobby. Makes literally no difference.
@@MickDrivesCars Bike helmets you have hanging around are fine for a first trackday, but if you’re thinking about doing more, get a car helmet. They are very different. They don’t need to be expensive, less than £100. They are built to take multiple impacts, such as your head pin-balling around should you roll the car, and bike helmet don’t have to worry about fire.
My Swift Sport has 95k miles and seems in good condition but not sure I'm willing to put it to the test yet lol. My fear is not crashing, but something falling apart.
There's a swift sport used for a rental company on the Nürburgring that's doe something ridiculous like 300k track miles with nothing but standard servicing, brakes/tires. Japanese reliability bro - the cars are indestructible
@@MickDrivesCars That is true, but it's not proven to me yet. On 95k but I bought it at 94 lol. To be fair as much as I want to take it to a track, I've only been driving for around a month (long break after te), should probably give it some more time.
I do hope I still have the swift when I'm ready.
Were you required to wear a helmet? Thought it was less safe to use helmet without Hans neck restraint?
Yes, mandatory to wear a helmet. Most wore open-face car specific helmets but I was in a motorbike helmet I had.
Did you get track insurance?
Nope. Got another trackday end of Feb and I'm wondering if I should...
@@MickDrivesCars Yes. It's a smart thing to have.
There are a handful that offer just coverage of your car. OpenTrack offers coverage of your car AND a liability option that covers damage to another car and the track.
If it wasn't so expensive I would the price is dumb and all the instructions just to do a lap is ridiculous. I'll stick to my friends private mountain road in the woods. I don't want advice. I just want to pay and drive like other countries. The USA sucks for track driving.
money
im not scared. i just dont have a car😅
*Why You Should Do a Track Day
I'm curious, do you do this on a variety of channels or do you actually enjoy my content and just like correcting people here? Happy to have you. Never change.
I do this everywhere on RUclips, but I really enjoy your videos and I like your personality. I find your driving content to be very enjoyable to watch. 😌.@@MickDrivesCars
If you change the thumbnail you might get more views
😂
I've changed this thumbnail 5 or 6 times. This is the only one that can hold a 6% CTR, which isn't even great tbh.
@@MickDrivesCars Welp, i guess that's the algorithm for ya lol. Great videos man, keep doing what you do.