Doughnutter

Last year while working towards my Motorsport engineering degree at Derby University I started up a track day club for the students. We have had some very successful days and have gradually grown in size and recently I started a small company doing the track days to enable us to book bigger tracks. We are still sudent based with many of the students helping out with marshalling and driving at the days but we also want to encourage owners clubs to come along too.

The next 2 Mallory Park dates are

20th November 2009

29th December 2009 Christmas and New year special

I'd love to see a good collection of Blue Ovals in attendance and I will reserve a nice big area for them to park up in the paddock during the day whilst using the track. My own 3 door will be there and hopefully I may even get time to do a session or 2 in it!

Would any of you guys like to come along and join in the action? As Passion Ford members you'll get free passenger track wrist bands if you buy a ticket for track time and entry for all show cars and spectators is completly free to every one!

An advert is going into Practical Performance Car magazine next issue so its a a chance to get in early before we sell out of tickets.

A bit of info about Mallory Park . .

The track has been around since 1940's as a pony trotting track, then in the 1948 a grass track was made. The first concrete had been layed by 1956 and thats when the serious fun started. Since then it has been home to some of the best racing in England and has hosted everything from Superbikes to Truck Racing. Mallory Park has seen some of motor racing’s greats compete there. John Surtees returned to Mallory to win on both 2 and 4 wheels (the only man to win World Championships on both 2 and 4 wheels). The great Giacomo Agostini was beaten by local legend John Cooper (a Derby lad!)in the Race of the Year. Agostini was World Champion at this time so it was a great success for Cooper. It has also been home to Radio 1 roadshows and Bay City Rollers concerts to name a few, and this summer coming it will be the home of Doughnutters Trackdays 3 day camping and track event, but more on that at a later date

It has what is regarded as one of the fastest corners of an English track, the famous Gerrards Corner (120mph is acheivable) and at the other end one of the slowest hairpins (20 - 30mph) and a few more corners thrown in to test you inbetween!

We will be running 3 x 15 minute sessions. Each session will include up to 25 cars on track together dependant on experience. Once the 15 min session is finshed, the next session goes out. This means 15 mins on track, about 30 mins off track (time to cool off, check your car, have a cup of tea or use the toilet / cafe facilities) and then your back on the track again. We guarentee 6 sesssions minimum!

First session will start at 9am. we will have a brief break for lunch to allow the marshalls, fire crews, ambulance and rescue truck drivers to grab something to eat. Then its back out on track untill its too dark to race!

Everyones welcome! We will have the usual mixture of different cars and this will be an oppertunity to see the Santa Pod, Drift demo car, attempt to drift Gerrards corner at speeds of well over 100mph :matrix:

Spectators are free of charge to come down (free parking too) and there are some awesome veiwing points around the track, although children under 16 will not be permitted in the Pit / Paddock area unsupervised. There is a cafe and licensed bar for them to use while they enjoy the action on track.

105 db limit

Safe tail out action encouraged

We will have a photogapher on site taking pictures to upload onto our web site.

We will have expert race instructors available for tuition. Please contact us for package prices on this. All of our people working with Doughnutters Track Days have been involved in motorsport for a long time. We have licensed drift, sprint and rally racers on hand to give free tips and paid lessons.

Mad Gaz the spanner man will also be on site with his tool box and diagnostics equipment should any one need a helping hand during the day!

The usual free tips, help and advice!

Our day is £99 for 6 sessions !

Due to the extremely, high speeds involved on this track, Helmets are mandatory for everone and a maximum or 2 people in a car on track!

There has been a lot of interest from owners clubs who want to bring groups along and also hold small show areas in the Paddock areas so this is filling up fast!

Payment can either be in cash to me, via paypal (add on the charges) or by cheque to Doughnutters Ltd.

Any queiries / questions please contact me either by PM or on this thread.

May I also ask you to check out the site www.doughnutters.com that is currently being updated with details.

You will find on the site our own club rules, shortly to be added will be the Mallory specific ones for that date.

For those of you who have never been to Mallory, a couple of pictures . .





Thanks for reading and I look forward to seeing you all there!!

New Curborough dates to follow soon and details of next years national calender will be uploaed to the sites in the next few weeks.