Private Test Day at Croix-en-Ternois

I have got a group together to take a private test day at Croix-en-Ternois circuit in France on Tuesday 29th July and we will have room for a couple more cars if anyone is interested.

Croix is a great little circuit. It’s about 1.2 miles and as it is very twisty it is particularly suited to 7’s. The F1 teams used to practise here prior to Monaco. It gets a mention on Circuit Driver;

http://www.circuitdriver.com/guides/croix.asp

They also have their own website with more info and a couple of photos;

http://www.circuitdecroix.com/

There will probably be about 16-18 cars and we are just splitting the costs equally between us. I would guess that it will cost around 132 Euro (approx £91.00) but I will not know the precise figure of course until I know the number going. For that we get the whole track to ourselves from 9am to 5pm – no queues!

The circuit is very easy to get to and is about 40 minutes from Calais. Some of us will be going over the night before and camping at the circuit.

I have to stress that this is an informal hiring of the circuit for our personal use and each driver participates at his or her own risk. There is no track day organiser bearing responsibility for the arrangements. We have not taken any additional services of track marshals or an ambulance and paramedics but these can be arranged at additional cost.

Mark

Best of luck. I'd suggest, though, that you ensure that arrangements are made directly rather than here (that is to say, via email), and strongly encourage you to hire an ambulance and any other necessary safety personnel (such as a tow truck) for your event.

Let us know how it goes, too.

Croix was amazing and we had a really excellent day. We had thirteen cars in the end and I am pleased to say the weather prediction of light showers was wrong; it was clear and sunny and we had a dry track the whole day.

We went over the night before and camped at the circuit. The facilities were great with loos / hot showers and the paddock had power.

With so few cars and so much time I often had the circuit to myself and there were seldom more than four or five cars out at any one time. At the end of the day we all agreed that we could have had more cars without it affecting our track time.

The cost worked out as £120 per car and no additional charge for extra drivers. That particularly suited three of our cars as they were co-owned and effectively the two drivers paid £60 each. Excellent value when you are just sharing the circuit with twelve other cars for the whole day!

I am pleased to report the day was incident free and everyone considered it a great success. So much so that we have already booked our next day!

We have booked the track for Wednesday 10th September and intend to take 18 cars. Assuming a similar exchange rate as last time it should work out at about £90 per car.

I have a few places left if anyone is interested.