Nothing to fear, indeed it’s all exciting – they’re the best in the business and that opinion us almost official these days.

Don’t take our word for it, you’ve only got to scoot over to the ThrottleMonkey or TrackDayRiders forums for plenty of thumbs ups!

We’ll be listing all the dates here and providing booking facility, exclusive instructors and a host of other goodies.

FEBRUARY

Tuesday 21st – OULTON PARK (Tarporley, Cheshire) – £59

SUNDAY 26th – CADWELL PARK (Louth, Lincolnshire) – £59

MARCH

Thursday 22nd – BRANDS HATCH INDY (Fawkham, Kent) – £115

SUNDAY 25th – CADWELL PARK (Louth, Lincolnshire) – £85

APRIL

Thursday 19th – CADWELL PARK (Louth, Lincolnshire) – £89

Wednesday 25th – OULTON PARK (Tarporley, Cheshire) – £139

Monday 30th – SNETTERTON 300 (Thetford, Norfolk) – £95

MAY

Thursday 17th – SNETTERTON 300 (Thetford, Norfolk) – £95

Monday 21st – CADWELL PARK (Louth, Lincolnshire) – £95

Wednesday 30th – OULTON PARK (Tarporley, Cheshire) – £135

JUNE

Thursday 14th – CADWELL PARK (Louth, Lincolnshire) – £95

Tuesday 19th – OULTON PARK (Tarporley, Cheshire) – £139

Tuesday 26th – SNETTERTON 300 (Thetford, Norfolk) – £95

Wednesday 27th – CADWELL PARK (Louth, Lincolnshire) – £95

NOVEMBER

Fri 2nd, Sat 3rd & Sun 4th – GUADIX CIRCUIT (Granada, Spain) – from £299

More details to follow as we get them…

We’ve broken cover and revealed the look of our new website. We figured that over Christmas is the best time to get this all updated.
Over the next few weeks we’ll be adding track day dates and booking, a fully featured shop full of track day goodies and much more.
So don’t be too harsh for the time being – just give us a few more weeks!

2012 bike track days will be starting at end of February with visits to Oulton, Cadwell and Snetterton happening that month. If you registered with us in October, drop us an email now for your booking code. You’ll get any event in Feb for just £29!!

The development of Snetterton circuit was long overdue in our opinion, though we didn’t see it coming that the circuits owner, Motorsport Vision, would commit to extending the circuit itself to a new 3 mile configuration.
After initial troubles with planning, noise and flooding issues the circuit opened it’s doors at the beginning of the year and it soon became clear it was going to become a bike track day favorite.

Have you ridden the new 300? What did you think?

Bad and sad news. We’re grieved to report the death of Marco Simoncelli. The MotoGP rider succumbed to injuries sustained this weekend at the Malaysian Grand Prix, his death coming barely a week after those of Indy 500 champion Dan Wheldon and Baja racer Rick Huseman.

A promising Italian rider, Simoncelli advanced just last year to the top-tier MotoGP series after making a name for himself in the feeder classes. He was a force to be reckoned with in the Italian Minimoto Championship in the late 90s, won the European championship (as well as several World Championship races) in the 125cc class for Aprilia and took the 250cc World Championship for Gilera in 2008. He advanced to the MotoGP series last season, riding for the Gresini Honda team, for whom he took a second-place finish just last week in Australia.

Disaster struck, however, on the second lap of the Malaysian Grand Prix today where he lost control of his Honda racing bike and was hit by fellow riders Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi as he slid across the track. He laid there motionless, his helmet having come off in the incident, until an ambulance brought him to the trackside infirmary where he was subsequently pronounced dead. He was 24.

The tragedy marks the first death in MotoGP since the 2003 Japanese Grand Prix where Daijiro Kato, also of the Gresini team, was killed. However Shoya Tomizawa was killed a little over a year ago in the Moto2 race at San Marino.

A talented character that will be missed.

In addition to both bike and car trackdays in the UK, Hottax.co.uk will now be supplying a full range of HD cameras for onboard footage, data loggers and other equipment, he’ll be running a service whereby you can collect your prized new gadgets at one of his trackdays and have a full set-up and training session on how to get the most out of them. The full new Hottrax.co.uk shop goes online early January – be sure to check it out.

28.10.11 EDITOR UPDATE: We’ve just  decided on an exclusive deal with EasyTrack for track days:

“having been to well over 250 UK trackdays in my time I feel I know a thing or two about how well run an event it. I’ve got to say that, in line with what a heck of a lot of my customers were telling me, I’ve been so impressed with EasyTrack events that this is the natural decision to make. We’ll be attending their events with a full range of Datalogging and Camera stock and our clients can book an EasyTrack event at the same time they purchase a logger or camera online with us. We’ll still be offering the install and training service included with the price!”

You’ve spent your hard earned savings on that dream bike. You’ve got your trusty fave leathers on. A modern helmet on your head to keep the brain in check. Fueled up, ready to go.

But what about the only bit of what you are sitting on that actually should only ever be the bit that comes in contact with the tarmac.

Tyres.

To compliment our new beginners guide, we take an indepth look at, and gather some expert advice about on those all important black rubber rings….