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PostPosted: 22:36 - 31 Aug 2013    Post subject: High speed passenger rides Reply with quote

Just went for a passenger ride in an SLS at MB world today and it was frikin awesome! Never had anything like it and now I'm hooked. Highly recommend it. If you don't want to pay the price for the SLS at least pay £15 for an AMG ride!

Anyone know of any other good passenger rides that you can do? Preferably at a proper circuit. Best deal I've found so far is £39 for 20 mins in a Caterham/370Z at Silverstone but I want something with better cars preferably
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PostPosted: 22:40 - 31 Aug 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

How comes you go passenger and not drive one?. Do you not have a license or is it the cost?
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PostPosted: 22:41 - 31 Aug 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have a bash yourself, far more fun IMO.
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PostPosted: 22:42 - 31 Aug 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

The hypersonic thing at Silverstone look quite good, probably the closest you will get to an F1 car without spending ludicrous amounts of money, think it's only about 60 quid.
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PostPosted: 22:42 - 31 Aug 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a passenger ride at Donnington in a mates dads Ferrari F40. Best car ride ever!

Sadly I don't know of anywhere that you can pay to be a passenger Sad
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PostPosted: 22:55 - 31 Aug 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't have a driving licence plus I don't think you'd get anywhere near as fast as them. Especially how late they brake Shocked
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PostPosted: 01:01 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Re: High speed passenger rides Reply with quote

rac3r wrote:

Anyone know of any other good passenger rides that you can do? Preferably at a proper circuit. Best deal I've found so far is £39 for 20 mins in a Caterham/370Z at Silverstone but I want something with better cars preferably


What do you mean by better cars?

With the right driver, 10 laps of Silverstone in a Caterham, could be the wildest ride you've ever had.
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PostPosted: 09:37 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

I got a go in a Lamborghini gallardo balboni around the top gear track a few months ago. I had paid for my Mrs to go in a standard gallardo as a driver but as the ever opportunist I took advantage of the offer of a few power laps for not a great deal of money.

The fella driving the thing set off sideways and then We were tearing passed all the people driving the cars at like double their speed and he was braking really late. It really felt like a good experience and I got to be in the car with somebody who knew what they were doing and there was no responsibility on me if it all went tits up. Tell the driver you are a biker and the car feels a bit slow to make them work a bit harder.
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PostPosted: 10:18 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can buy 'taxi rides' around the Nürburgring; if you're lucky you might even get Sabine Schmitz.

I got a ride around the Ring in a BMW X6M driven by Dirk Müller; that was quite awesome. My own laps in an M3 were not as fast but an awesomer experience.
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PostPosted: 12:19 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Aff wrote:
The hypersonic thing at Silverstone look quite good, probably the closest you will get to an F1 car without spending ludicrous amounts of money, think it's only about 60 quid.



Where is the button for, 'inaccurate nomenclature used in this post'?

"In aerodynamics, a hypersonic speed is one that is highly supersonic (even though the origin of the words is the same: "super" is just the Latin version of the Greek "hyper"). Since the 1970s, the term has generally been assumed to refer to speeds of Mach 5 and above."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersonic_speed

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PostPosted: 12:35 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Re: High speed passenger rides Reply with quote

Shaft wrote:
What do you mean by better cars?

With the right driver, 10 laps of Silverstone in a Caterham, could be the wildest ride you've ever had.


Was just about to say the same thing...

Whenever I've been on open track days my piddly Caterham (125bhp and road tyres) I've thrashed everything but fully race prepped Boxter Ss. I've even outdone a radical, but I'm pretty sure that was down to the driver being a little crap.

A Caterham's low weight means that it can compete with the big boys for everything but straight line speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNJ5MXEqK0
The other cars were either better Caterhams, Race prepped Porsches or an old gti class. It's a test day rather than track day so overtakes are allowed everywhere.
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PostPosted: 20:20 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Re: High speed passenger rides Reply with quote

daemonoid wrote:
Shaft wrote:
What do you mean by better cars?

With the right driver, 10 laps of Silverstone in a Caterham, could be the wildest ride you've ever had.


Was just about to say the same thing...

Whenever I've been on open track days my piddly Caterham (125bhp and road tyres) I've thrashed everything but fully race prepped Boxter Ss. I've even outdone a radical, but I'm pretty sure that was down to the driver being a little crap.

A Caterham's low weight means that it can compete with the big boys for everything but straight line speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNJ5MXEqK0
The other cars were either better Caterhams, Race prepped Porsches or an old gti class. It's a test day rather than track day so overtakes are allowed everywhere.


1:55 is that some cnut in their mum's Fiesta?
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PostPosted: 20:50 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

Buy one instead Wink
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PostPosted: 20:56 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had a lap in a BSB Safety Car (Nissan GTR) at Oulton Park last year. It was insane.
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PostPosted: 22:34 - 01 Sep 2013    Post subject: Re: High speed passenger rides Reply with quote

Walloper wrote:
daemonoid wrote:

A Caterham's low weight means that it can compete with the big boys for everything but straight line speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZNJ5MXEqK0
The other cars were either better Caterhams, Race prepped Porsches or an old gti class. It's a test day rather than track day so overtakes are allowed everywhere.


1:55 is that some cnut in their mum's Fiesta?


Golf GTi MkII, with a novice cross on the back, which probably explains why he's going too slowly, on the wrong line and braking where he shouldn't be.

Still irritates me when I see how they ruined Graham Hill bend, that used to be one of the best corners on any track Sad
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PostPosted: 10:02 - 02 Sep 2013    Post subject: Re: High speed passenger rides Reply with quote

Shaft wrote:
Golf GTi MkII, with a novice cross on the back, which probably explains why he's going too slowly, on the wrong line and braking where he shouldn't be.

Still irritates me when I see how they ruined Graham Hill bend, that used to be one of the best corners on any track Sad


I didn't realise they'd changed it so recently... I found it the most difficult corner on the track to get just right. I never found the grip I wanted, nor the pace.

Paddock hill bend was the first corner that I've found myself cheering about inside my helmet. It was terrifyingly quick and completely lacking traction until you hit the little dip at the bottom of the hill.

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PostPosted: 23:23 - 02 Sep 2013    Post subject: Re: High speed passenger rides Reply with quote

daemonoid wrote:
Shaft wrote:

Still irritates me when I see how they ruined Graham Hill bend, that used to be one of the best corners on any track Sad


I didn't realise they'd changed it so recently... I found it the most difficult corner on the track to get just right. I never found the grip I wanted, nor the pace.

Paddock hill bend was the first corner that I've found myself cheering about inside my helmet. It was terrifyingly quick and completely lacking traction until you hit the little dip at the bottom of the hill.

Rockingham this weekend if anyone wants a ticket?


They changed it yonks ago.

It used to be a near perfect positive camber sweeper; take a very late apex at Druids, swing back to the right hand side, then fire through the corner flat chat with a choice of exit, either stay tight to the left, or take a natural drift to the right kerb.

Now they've flattened it out, it's as much as you can do to stay inside the kerb on the exit, made doubly worse by the surface they've put behind the kerb, it's just a spin waiting to happen.

Paddock used to be really interesting, with the massive bump just off the apex; the only time I've ever rolled a car was there, I ended up on my roof in the kitty litter on the old circuit, trying to avoid a muppet exiting the pits too wide and too slow.
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