Re: track days and hire cars :-)

On 16 Aug 2006 12:04:27 GMT, Adrian wrote:

Steve Firth (%steve%@xxxxxxxxxxxx) gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying :

Indeed, however the Nurburgring is a public road

You *sure* about that?

Sure, because I speak Kraut I was asked to book a bunch of bikers from work
in for several circuits of the Ring and do their accommodation etc. One of
the things that came up was insurance and the blerk I spoke to at the Ring
said that the bikers normal insurance should cover it. This was in 1999, so
it's possible that insurers have wised up to it or found some way to weasel
out.

However the usual exclusion for "track use" didn't apply because
technically the Ring isn't a track.

BTW, for a laugh a couple of years ago I did a track day at an MoD track in
Surrey, in the Ford. I burnt out a set of pads - literally burnt out flames
coming out through the wheels that needed a CO2 extinguisher to put them
out and it also cost me a set of disks. I also discovered on the second lap
that despite having put on race pads and disks, I had virtually no brakes
at all.

Still the blokes that put me up to it pissed themselves laughing and I
didn't bend or dent it unlike the twerp in an Evo who hit a concrete box.
So a relatively good time was had by most. You won't be surprised to hear
that the only vehicle posting slower lap times was a forward control
landie.
.

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