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It's coming up to the Father in Laws 60th and I know he has always fancied having a go in a Catherham.
He's based in the Midlands, so it would have to be around that area, can anyone recomend a good place where he can have a go? I have looked on various websites and prices appear to range from £70 to £250 for basically the same thing! Has anyone actually done such a day that they can recommend?
Cheers
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Just seen the price - you might want to try somewhere else (I wasn't paying when I was there!)
all the main activity days are sold directly by Caterham as well as via Red Letter Days et al.
best going direct to caterham really.
depending what you want to get him.
to hire either a std. narrowbody or wide body car from Caterham Midlands or South is £150 per day.
to throw around their cars on the drift day or slalom day is about £115 for a half day or £195 for a full day. theres 2 cars, between a max of 40 people - (20 full dayers and 20 half dayers, so 60 drivers possible in total, but on 40 at any one time) you get 3 or 4 runs of the course per half day.
you do really get to rag the cars - the tyres on the cars are jap ditchfinders to you can easily get the car drifting controlably. it does live up to the strap line of 'drive like you stole it'
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alternativly you can book to have the car on a trackday - but this is about £500 but inc instruction. and you can get to see how good the cars are on a track.
only others i know of are book a track - again like the caterham run one you hire a 7 for use at one of their trackdays with similar costs.
or make a holiday of it and theres 'the open road' in scotland which hires the widebody cars for about £150/160.
I bought GF a caterham slalom day for his 30th, directly through Caterham. There was a choice of venues, we went to Silverstone. Would thoroughly recommend it, it was a great day, he really enjoyed it.
there were no where near as many people on his day as lord s mentions above, maybe 10? It seemed much better vfm than most other car days I looked at. I booked it after recommendataions from a few people on here.
slalom day is truly excellent and i have no hesitation to recommend one to anyone remotely interested in driving. i keep meaning to do another one. GF learned how to do doughnuts. there is a light-hearted competition element to it but there's no need to take that seriously at all. just for t-shirts and the like. most fun you can have below 40mph ( and believe me - that's fast enough the way the cars are setup! )
aye, MrsFlash - when i took my dad to one, it was at Elvington, North Yorks, which was the first year and only date that year they where doing one there. so it was a little busyier, but like i say they limit the numbers so you do get a decent amount of seat time.
i think on the day i managed 1 good donut... on my second to last run. wasnt able to repeat the fluke! 😆
ever been go-karting?
i looked at caterams etc for my 18th and 21st with some friends, in the end we decided go-karing at £25 for about 2 hours (3 12-15min races each) was the best VFM. Trick is to find a place that isn't too strict on the rules (some will kick everyone off the course after one minor spill). The one we went to DQ'd one guy for some repeatedly horrendous overtaking (probably aceptable in F1 unless your Hamilton), rest of the time i spent perfecting the full throttle drift on the last big corner 🙂