Track Days?

[ghost2212]

Had my MY19 Cupra 290 now since the end of May and looking at potentially doing some casual track days,

Does anyone else have experience of using a Stock car on track, I've done a few IAM Track days before with other cars at Thruxton and a few laps of the Nordschleife in rentals as well as my fathers car but definitely don't claim to be the a driving god or anything however I'm not going to drive around at some insanely slow speed but won't be trying to slide every corner either.

Would the Stock Tires(Continental 5P I think) and brakes handle a track day given breaks etc to cool down or is it not even worth bothering till i've got something better and made some changes to the brakes?

 

[Deleted member 103408]

Check out https://forums.seatcupra.net/index.php?threads/attending-a-trackday.438811/ for other members who do track days.

Plenty of people take stock cars to track days so you will be fine, just start slowly and get used to your car and make sure you follow the normal rules (all on the thread).

 

[Lozzy15]

Did my first track day in my FR a few weeks ago, it was awesome. I entered the novice group to drive with drivers of similar skill. My car has a few mods, nothing major and it's a 1.4 so a cupra should smash it.

 

[AndrewJB]

Stock Cupra brakes will be ok for a track day, I've been round Mallory Park with Jordi Gene pushing a Cupra hard and the brakes were fine, however Mugello circuit with SEAT Eurocup driver and the brakes were ****** after about 12 laps including the calipers fading to pink.

 

[LouG]

Check your tyre pressures, check fluids, fit good tyres, (you'll have to soon anyway), go for it.

 

[Jimbobcook]

To try and keep all the info in one place I think if we use the link provided by @theoldboy (https://forums.seatcupra.net/index.php?threads/attending-a-trackday.438811/ ) so everyone's on the same page it makes it easy to organise events.

I'll close this thread so it doesn't confuse anyone. Any issues with this let me know