Inter-club MR2 trackday - Blyton Park on Saturday 19th July

[Ben]

Javelin Trackdays are holing a 'Toyota-only' trackday at Blyton park on Saturday July 19th. The Toyota Sprint Series are currently running a competitive event at Blyton Park on Sunday 20th July, and according to Colin there has been a fair amount of interest from competitors in a track-day thereso they can get to know the track etc.

Colin has agreed to open up Saturday 19th July at Blyton Park as a ‘Toyota Only’ track day. We couldn’t restrict it to just MR2s unfortunately due to potential number issues, but Colin is taking bookings for TOYOTAS ONLY UNTIL THE END OF MAY. If there are spaces available after that he will open the day up to the general public to ensure the day is viable, which I think is fair enough. A typical day at Blyton runs between 45-54 cars and so far the only people who know about this are you lovely lot! So come on everyone, get booking!



The details:

Cost per car: £139
Format: Open Pitlane
Noise Limits: 105Dba static
Sign-on time: 7.45-9.00am
Helmet hire: £10
Passenger pass: £5
Additional driver: £20
Tuition: £20

Book here:
http://www.javelintrackdays.co.uk/tr...chk=1&Itemid=1

Currently there are a group of us driving up on Friday 18th July and staying at the Scunthorpe Premier Inn:

www.premierinn.com/en/hotel/SCUANC/scunthorpe

Blyton is a fantastic and technical track, which also benefits from miles of Armco-free run-off so you needn’t worry too much about bending your pride and joy. For anyone concerned, track-day insurance is available from a variety of companies.

The list of people who have paid so far is:

Ben Edwards - Toyota MR2 SC
Phil Cutler Toyota - MR2 Mk1
Phil Cutler Toyota - MR2 Mk1
Stan Hawrylak - Toyota GT86
John Ash - Toyota MR2
Paul Medway - Toyota MR2
Keith Stanbury - Toyota GT86 Turbo
Gavin Davenport - SW20 rev 2 V6
Dave Hillbrook - Toyota GT86
Phill Scott - Toyota MR2
Pete Mason - Toyota MR2
Dominic Godfrey - Toyota MR2 Roadster
Andrew Ayres - Toyota MR-S V6

[michaeljapp]

I think Blyton is around £500 to hire for the day, more for weekends. It would be worth contacting Javlin as they would arrange everything for you. It would be better from a liability stand point as well. Other tracks would be better but Blyton is great fun and quite safe.

You can put my name down depending on the dates. Weekends only for me.

There are a few other issues with club only days. When two members end up hitting each other it causes all sorts of problems and rifts in the clubs.

[Ben]

Thanks Michael. Ideally I'd love Javelin to be involved, but I'd like to get an idea of numbers before I start contacting tracks/organisers. I don't want to waste their time if it's a complete non-starter!

[Ben]

Well so far we have 16 potentials across three forums, not including the ROC or the MR2DC. I'll have a count up in a week and see where we go from there.

Am I forgetting any other clubs? Don't want anyone to be left out

[chief44]

I'd be up for this, schedule permitting.

[dylbie]

Ben would you like me to post in the TARC forum and see if any of the racers are interested? I'm sure some of them would be interested to go up against standard road going cars and some modified ones. Would be interesting to see how fast the race cars actually are.

[gonae86]

if the dates dont collide with my calenda count me in and I will probably bring a friend with a clio sport if thats ok

[superwhite90]

Depends how reliable my '2 is on the way and back from Japfest...

[Alan SE]

Yes, Yes Yes!
Great Idea. I'd be very interested
Alan

[Ben]

Yes, Yes Yes!
Great Idea. I'd be very interested
Alan

Cool!

Do you have contacts at the DC you could share please? I had a look at their website but there doesn't seem to be a forum?!