The last time I had track time at Ford Fair I had a rant, and again this year shall I rant…. why not, I completely agree the Exiges were cutting it fine etc, at least they passed and were gone, the Proxes on the Escort were only recently replaced so didn’t have too much grip at first, plus took me a couple of laps to find my feet, it was the other runners who seemed to have been obeying completely different rules – most people went at it like they were Michael Schumacher, the Escort is slower on the straights (its only 1600 carb'd), but a couple of instances I couldn’t move over to the right as I was being overtaken – on the RIGHT! What happened to the ‘no overtaking into or out of bends’? I try to move onto line for the corners, but I can’t as people coming past me on the approach. Maybe it was the fact that it was a novice session (as I still consider myself a beginner) people thought was an opportunity to gun it down the straights and then held me up on the bends where they crawled around them, I spent too much time keeping out of peoples way and worrying about not cutting them up when trying to get on line
Perhaps the Intermediate and Expert sessions displayed more the sort of etiquette that occurs at proper organised track days?

Saying that once I got the lay of the land I starting to enjoy it more and felt was improving around the bends and then it was time to come in! although perhaps that was a good thing as think those few laps finished my brake pads off, had a touch of brake fade into one bend

I certainly wouldn’t recommend these sessions for a complete beginner as their first taster of track driving (was mine a couple of years back and would’ve put me off for life!)

Z