Unless you’ve been living in a cave recently you’ll know that during the winter Snetterton was undergoing redevelopment. Whatever Jonathan Palmer’s real motives were for the redevelopment, the end result is the track is now a mile longer with an infield section and a load of spectator banking. When tracks are reprofiled alarm bells usually

The race at Lydden Hill didn’t seem all that appealing to me. Driving to deepest, darkest Kent for the race on a Saturday didn’t fill me with joy after the escapades of getting to Castle Combe on Friday night, and Lydden was an extra hours travel! Instead I decided to go on a track day

Before the first race of the season at Mallory Park next weekend Matt Smith from the MR2 series had organised a track day for anyone wanting to shake down a new car, learn the track or have an excuse to go for a drive. For me the excuse was to learn the track, so off

I’m told that traditionally the MR2 Racing Series has a launch day at this time of year labelled as a meet & greet day, or a day to see how much Christmas pudding your competitors have yet to exercise off. It wasn’t my intention to do the Oultonpark track day just 5 days previously but

For my winter testing I had another track day booked at Oulton, again with Lotus on Track, and this time armed with a new set of EBC Yellowstuff brake pads. It was also the first journey out for the van with the MR2 in the back. Lets hope I got the straps right and it

After the Brands Hatch race my plan for the winter was to get a couple of track days in and start getting used to the car. Oulton Park was the obvious choice as it is my local track. The organiser was Lotus on Track again so I was hoping for better reliability this time. Ian

As I had my eyes firmly set on entering the car for the MR2 race at Brands Hatch in a couple of weeks I needed to gain a bit of experience having not really driven the car on track without any engine spluttering. I had just got the car back from the garage on the

The dreaded ARDS test. No matter what you read online about it being easy you can’t help think about it being your driving test all over again, except at much higher speeds. I was as prepared as I could be having watched the DVD a couple of times and read the Blue Book, and also

Today was my first track day, and what a track to start on at Oulton Park. Or not. Well actually it isn’t as bad as it sounds. While they don’t recommend going on your first track day at Oulton I had driven Rockingham before with instructors and also done a number of driving experiences so