I done this last year, I had no track experience, however I am confident on a bike and feel I am a reasonably quick road rider. There was no 1-2-1 spaces left so it was 2-1 fortunately I went with a friend so we paired up and our speed was comparable. The fastest rider goes at the back but you both have a turn up front in the three 15 minute sessions that you get. I would imagine if you are quick and your paring is slow it would be frustrating but this won’t effect you Stuart’s on a 1-1 basis. On our second session my mate had issues with his leathers so I got a 1-1 which was great, plenty of knee down and we were overtaking all the other riders on track expect for the fireblade elite group, which was a good buzz, one negative about this is if you are running at a faster pace you can hit traffic as there are quite a few people there who are lacking confidence they have to pull over to let you past but the fireblade group are on track too so you have to pull over for them which is a pain as it can spoil your lines!
I was a little nervous at going and before the course I thought 45 minutes track time was a little low but afterwards I think for your first time 45 minutes was fine, it was really hot and I was exhausted after that time!
At the end all the riders on your course get a presentation and you get a score card to say how well you done, which is all done in a very positive way. Our course was full and there was a few guys who had track experience so I was really pleased when I got the 2nd highest score 92.5 out of a 100, there was one of he got a 100 however he had done lots of track days and been to Donington a few times before.
Since that day I bought a ZX6R for track and done 3 track days and one more training day with James Whitton
A fantastic experience and gave me the confidence to get into track days, without this course I probably would have just been still thinking about doing a track day.
