Top Gear Test Track Day

Top Gear Test Track Day by Ultimate-GT

Ever wondered what it's like to drive the Top Gear test track?

D1 Ultimate-GT is proud to offer you this amazing opportunity. The Top Gear test track is the same as used by the BBC automotive television programme Top Gear. You can now test your driving skills and lap times of your car to what the Stig lapped it in on the Power Laps board. The Top Gear test track is built on an airfield at Dunsfold UK so it also has no noise restrictions.

These events are for groups of 25 cars at maximum so you are advised to reserve your place.

How to book your Top Gear Test Track Day?

Top Gear has its own test track where on the show they have Celebrity guests that do test drives on a time trial to go up on a top driver board in the studio. The track is on site of a former Canadian airbase that was first constructed during the Second World War, this was later used by British Aerospace as a manufacturing and also a testing facility. The track does have a main route to maximize optimum speed and makes the driver aware of all of the structures which include stacks of tyres. The route was designed by the test drivers at Motor giant Lotus.

The track layout and design is there to enable the car to be put through various driving conditions. The track design is there to provoke understeer to test brake balance and also the tire wear. The track is approximately 1.75 miles long. The track does have a drag strip facility.

The course starts on the perimeter road outside the Top Gear studio. The first bend is a fast right-left kink named "Crooner Curves." "Willson Bend" is the first proper turn on the track and the first corner usually seen when The Stig is lapping a car. "Chicago", a long right-hand around a tire wall onto the main runway, was designed by Lotus as a Steady State Corner, designed to highlight understeer or oversteer of the chassis. Next is "Hammerhead", a left-then-right corner, which again highlights understeer and oversteer. The track comes to a right-hand curve, then the course turns right through the flat-out section called the "Follow Through". After the left hand "Bentley Bend" named after the person who first "discovered" Jeremy Clarkson and former Top Gear presenter, Jon Bentley, the course comes to "Bacharach Bend", which, after the first series, has been referred to as the "Penultimate Corner" or the "Second-to-last Corner" and is often regarded as one of the most challenging on the course. The final turn before the finish line is "Gambon" in honour of Sir Michael Gambon, who completed the turn on two wheels in episode 8 of Series 1. Prior to this, the corner was known as "Carpenters Corner"

Do you think that you can match the fastest time on the Top Gear Power Board? 1:15.1 is the time to beat if you fancy it!

More information about Top Gear Test Track Days

 

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