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Hi everyone...
I recently got my first golf gti VII and am looking at joining doing a few track days. Am a newbie to the tracks (never been). I heard from a mate of mine who owns a subaru wrx that he was part of a club/forum that organises track days every so often and even has days for newbies who want to learn the tracks. Does anyone know if there's a similar thing here?
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I have created a 2014 Vic track day thread in the Motorsports subforum
The MSCA have run "come and try" sessions at most of their events this year for first timers wanting to see if track days are for them
Come and Try Days
This details what you need for a track day https://www.msca.net.au/about.php
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Take a look in the motorsport section , there's a list of clubs in there.
CLUBS - CAMS affiliated
PIARC runs a lot of introductory track days and will assist with training and education when you go out to their practice sessions. Take a look at their calendar.
Phillip Island Auto Racing Club
Go out to a few events to see how they're run before you enter yourself. Get there at the opening of the gates and watch the procedures for signing in and scrutineering, make some friends and ask a lot of questions.
Time spent chatting to the officials about the requirements will save you a lot of confusion when you enter for the first time.
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I should add that the "Come and Try" entrants get to run in their own sessions which are untimed and get assigned an instructor for the day that rides along with them. They also get a couple "class" sessions where the processes for "normal" entries are explained to them. A couple of friends came up with me to do this at the Winton day in March and loved it.
Pretty good for $135, especially since you don't need to be a member of a CAMS affiliated club to do this - you do only get to "Come and Try" once, though. The other series like VSSC should look into doing this too.
If I hadn't had friends who had been doing track days already (big thanks to Peter Jones for all his help and advice), I would have been all at sea for my first couple of days.
Last edited by kaanage; 22-07-2014 at 11:34 PM.
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Ultimate Dubber
As above lots of options! PIARC days are great at PI.
Next one is August 16th
Volkswagenist
Whoops - big typo
MSCA Come and Try is $135 incl the one day licence (not $65). Still a cheap way to put the toe in the water, though.
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New Dubber
Thanks for the replies....will definitely look into them
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