For All The Bikers In Here - Which Track Is Best

15 Jul 2005

Well after reading a comment in Tevo's Post about his poor old R6 (Hope your on the mend though Tevo).
I got wondering about other bikers views on the best racing track in the UK. confused

The best track for me has to be Cadwell :twisted: as it is very challenging because you need to be technical in your riding through out the whole track and to make matters worse its very tricky in seting up your bike for it.
So here is my list of the tracks
1ST = Cadwell Park
2ND = Oulton Park
3RD = Donington
4TH = Croft
5TH = Rockingham
6TH = Mallory Park
7TH = Anglesey
8TH = Brands Hatch
9TH = Snetterton
10TH = Pembrey
11TH = Silverstone
12TH = Lydden
Love to know what you bikes think :?:
Cheers
Mark biggrin

15 Jul 2005

LAGUNA SECA

15 Jul 2005

None of them rolleyes

15 Jul 2005

SXBOY Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:11 am Post subject:
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LAGUNA SECA

This would be in the top 3 but unfortunantly its not in the UK

15 Jul 2005

Quote by smileymark
SXBOY Posted: Fri Jul 15, 2005 11:11 am Post subject:
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LAGUNA SECA

This would be in the top 3 but unfortunantly its not in the UK
sorry only read bike track and started dreaming !!!
donington is very good

15 Jul 2005

I've never been to any of them yet! Cadwell is closest to me and I hear a very fun track to ride. Maybe i'll do a trackday later in the year if I ever get round to it!

15 Jul 2005

Yes - I Gotta agree Cadwell is technically challenging - I decked it on several occasions at the gooseneck trying to get that adverse camber thing sorted........ The full circuit through the trees is very tricky - especially in bad weather !
I guess I'd probably place it first, but then again my absolute fave tracks to race at were Three Sisters (Wigan) and Knockhill in Scotland - I always did well there (i.e never threw it down tha track) - but ho hum my racing days are over now...........
Sex is way more fun though!

15 Jul 2005

well have to say probably outlon park & knock hill in the uk,,,,,,but I live an hour away from the old nurburgring :P , technically not in the uk, but miles better than anywhere else :twisted:

15 Jul 2005

Yea i would say
1 - Oulton Park, most technical track in the UK as voted by BSB riders, the only track i have managed to bin it on several times
2 - Cadwell Park, the mountain is awesome
3 - Knockhill, nice short track
4 - Snetterton, high speed track, nice out of the bombhole onto cromer
5 - Brands Hatch, GP curcuit absolutely awesome
6 - Silverstone, Crap
Rockingham - is totally unsafe for bikes imho so don't go there
One thing i must say is that all tracks are better than the road, so keep it safe rolleyes

Oh !!! i forget to say that the Ring is perfect but mainly on a closed circuit day rather than a public day
Steve lol

15 Jul 2005

Let's face it guys and ladies.
If it's a track with a bike on it it's bloody good no matter where it is!

15 Jul 2005

Even in my sports bike days, I never did track days.
Basically because they were full of boy racers who bore me.
One R6/R1/Gixxer/etc, etc is much the same as the next IMHO.

15 Jul 2005

But Vix, we all have one thing in common.
Two wheels.
So even the boy racers deseve some of our time.
Now BMW riders - that's a different story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

15 Jul 2005

Quote by VFR Rider
But Vix, we all have one thing in common.
Two wheels.
So even the boy racers deseve some of our time.
Now BMW riders - that's a different story!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, as long as they don't try to impress me with stories of their "hanging off" and knee-down exploits.
:yawn:
Got the tee-shirt, me.

15 Jul 2005

I know what you mean.
We were in Weymouth a couple of weeks ago listening to three guys dressed like out of work power rangers describing how they 'apexed that last bend' and 'backed the bike into this bend' - yawn, yawn.
On the way home we overtook them - all on sportsbikes and us on a 1997 VFR with a full set of boxes.
Our leathers are still drying we laughed that much

15 Jul 2005

I like it VFR man biggrin

Its not always the bike, but the person riding. Not sure if you saw Top Gear at the weekend, but there was a lovely German lady driving a diesil Ford Transit, around the Nuremburg Ring, overtaking sportsbikes, and flash cars. Ahhhhhh what a lady :love:

15 Jul 2005

Quote by smileymark
I got wondering about other bikers views on the best racing track in the UK. Mark

OK, I'll admit I go to watch the crashes just as much as the racing redface

Mallory at the chicane before Devil's Elbow is a good spot, Paddock at Brands is a real rookie-killer, and it's always a good laugh to stand at the Esses at Donnington and see who thinks it's an overtaking spot. :D
On the other hand, I don't like it when the guys get hurt, so Cadwell is a bit of a downer for me... I was no more than about 50 feet away when Kaggi had that horrible crash a couple of years ago. How he survived, let alone get back on a bike, will forever be a mystery to me.

15 Jul 2005

think I'll go for elvington followed by santa pod (when it's not chock a block with shopping rockets) and finally woodbridge in suffolk,,I'm a real racer,I don't have time to spend ages looking for a finish line,so I'll use the one that's a quarter of a mile straight in front of me :grin:

15 Jul 2005

only been round Mallory Park...............
In a mecedes people carrier............
Hanging out the boot.................
with my legs strapped down by the seatbelts and my head about 2 inches off the floor.
now thats racing!!!!

16 Jul 2005

Yeah, I did see the girl in the transit around the Neurburg Ring - bloody impressive.

16 Jul 2005

as a fan of three wheels (brother races F1 sidecars) my favourites are
Brands (full circuit)
Snetterton
Lydden hill (especial when someone flips a chariot going into chessmans drift)
Brands (short circuit) fun when watching f2's battle it out
Pembrey and for the novelty many testing days at goodwoodbefore they did it up, dragged the sidecar out of the holes many times, when it was open for testing a few years ago we used to have to go and recover the sidecar ourselves when it broke.