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Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:15 am
by Slenver
I'm gonna book a trackday for next month at Snett, but it'll be my first time on track for 16 years! I did a few back in the day, plus a season of racing, so I'm moderately experienced on paper, but it was a long time ago. I'm also old now, and tbh I don't even want to go that fast. I just want to enjoy the feeling again, get the old knee down and all that jazz. I don't have the fearless competitiveness I had in my youth
So more than happy to go in the slowest group, but then the slow group is also the most dangerous and unpredictable. Should I go in inters just to keep away from newbies or would I be the danger there, pootling around like an old geezer?
This is an honest, no-ego question, interested in opinions for my own safety and enjoyment along with everyone else's.
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:31 am
by Count Steer
Can you change group during the day? If so, I'd go intermediate and, if you feel uncomfortable, move to novice. (Hopefully, by that time, all the threats to life and limb in novice will be bashing the dents out of their bikes.
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Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:37 am
by Slenver
I booked inters in the end after reading the FAQs/guidance. It said Novice really is for people with no track experience at all and that everyone else should go in Inters, aside from fast fuckers, obvs.
What's interesting is that the prices haven't changed since I started doing them 20+ years ago, which makes them a fraction of the cost in real terms. Though back protectors are now mandatory and my last one was cut off, so I need to go shopping
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:50 am
by weeksy
Slenver wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:15 am
I'm gonna book a trackday for next month at Snett, but it'll be my first time on track for 16 years! I did a few back in the day, plus a season of racing, so I'm moderately experienced on paper, but it was a long time ago. I'm also old now, and tbh I don't even want to go that fast. I just want to enjoy the feeling again, get the old knee down and all that jazz. I don't have the fearless competitiveness I had in my youth
So more than happy to go in the slowest group, but then the slow group is also the most dangerous and unpredictable. Should I go in inters just to keep away from newbies or would I be the danger there, pootling around like an old geezer?
This is an honest, no-ego question, interested in opinions for my own safety and enjoyment along with everyone else's.
What bike are you on ?
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:53 am
by Slenver
weeksy wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:50 am
What bike are you on ?
Street Triple RS
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:54 am
by weeksy
Can potentially make a bit of a difference as trackday Inters groups will be stacked with full sports race fairing tyre warmered guys now.
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:55 am
by Count Steer
What happened to the KTM?
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:11 am
by Slenver
weeksy wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:54 am
Can potentially make a bit of a difference as trackday Inters groups will be stacked with full sports race fairing tyre warmered guys now.
Interesting. Ah well, I'll see how it goes. Maybe I'll just have to try and ride fast
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 11:12 am
by Slenver
Count Steer wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:55 am
What happened to the KTM?
Sold! Finally. Had it for years, but wanted something I could just jump on for fun. Which I've been doing. Loving the Street Trip!
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 3:51 pm
by Le_Fromage_Grande
weeksy wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 10:54 am
Can potentially make a bit of a difference as trackday Inters groups will be stacked with full sports race fairing tyre warmered guys now.
So is Novice these days.
With a No Limits trackday there is little difference between Novice and Inters, but at Snetterton it doesn't really matter as it's big enough to ride in your own space and overtaking is easy.
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 3:55 pm
by Flux
I'd disagree with novice being more dangerous than inters, I've done a fair few years instructing and inters tends to have the largest spread of abilities and more folk mixing ambition with ability. If I were you I'd book novice and if you're substantially faster than the group, move up..
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 4:41 pm
by Slenver
Thanks all
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:11 pm
by Scud
What day are you going? Iām booked on the 28th july
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:15 pm
by Slenver
Scud wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:11 pm
What day are you going? Iām booked on the 28th july
Aug 16th
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:47 pm
by Dodgy69
Brake lever gaurd.
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:44 pm
by Skub
Fast group and have them on the brakes.
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:59 pm
by Yorick
On all the Euro days, you have transponders fitted and then moved to appropriate group at lunch.
Focused Events did this when I was instructing 15 years ago.
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:04 pm
by weeksy
Yorick wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:59 pm
On all the Euro days, you have transponders fitted and then moved to appropriate group at lunch.
Focused Events did this when I was instructing 15 years ago.
And then thr UK wankers fucked it all up.
1. Going flat out on lap 1 session 1 to do a superpole lap and crashing
2. Sandbagging to be the best in Inters.
It was a shit show
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:13 pm
by Yorick
weeksy wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:04 pm
Yorick wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:59 pm
On all the Euro days, you have transponders fitted and then moved to appropriate group at lunch.
Focused Events did this when I was instructing 15 years ago.
And then thr UK wankers fucked it all up.
1. Going flat out on lap 1 session 1 to do a superpole lap and crashing
2. Sandbagging to be the best in Inters.
It was a shit show
As instructors, part of our job was to watch for folk who were trying to be big fish in small pond.
Re: Which trackday group?
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 8:53 pm
by Slenver
Dodgy69 wrote: Mon Jul 14, 2025 5:47 pm
Brake lever gaurd.
Yep! Previous owner fitted them
