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Monday, 26 November 2012

BHP TrackDays Ltd - Review of 2012

We’re just coming up to our last event this year at Castle Combe on 1st December.  After that we’ll be looking forward into next year and getting all our paperwork updated for the new season which kicks of as usual at Castle Combe on Saturday 23 February.

It’s been an interesting year, it being our 10th anniversary in July.  The company was formed in July 2002 out of a bright idea to run track days the way we’d like them run if we were a customer.  That meant we wanted open pit lane, no queues to get on circuit, and a good mix of cars and enthusiasts.  We’ve pretty much achieved that and the feedback we get says we are running good quality track days too.

We held our 10th anniversary track day at Castle Combe, our home circuit, on 9th July.  We were blessed with good weather and a full day and even had a birthday cake to share with everyone.

Here's the team.  From left to right, Tim, John, Rosemary, David, Mari and Peter



Castle Combe continued to work well for us with most days there full well in advance.  Oulton Park and Cadwell were not so good to us this year with our events not running full.  We think the reason was too many operators chasing too few customers at unsustainably low prices.

New this year was Donington.  A super circuit and it worked well being full on both occassions we ran there.  We'll be running again there with more events in 2013.

So looking forward to next year.  Here's our provisional calendar.  We've started to add dates on the website and more will go on as the dates below become fully confirmed.  We're hoping to add more Donington events as well.

Provisional Calendar 2013

Castle Combe – Open Pit Lane, 100dB

Saturday, 23 February
Monday, 18 March, 8 April, 13 May, 17 June, 8 July, 12 August, 2 September, 30 September,
and 28 October.

Saturday, 7 December
Donington Park GP Circuit – Open Pit Lane, 98dB Drive-By

Monday, 25 March, 10 June (full day and evening), and 9 September).
Cadwell Park Full Circuit – Open Pit Lane, 105dB

Wednesday, 26 June
Oulton Park Full Circuit – Open Pit Lane, 105dB (92dB Drive-By)

Tuesday, 22 October

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