Here’s your chance to be a racing car driver for a day in a race-prepared V8 Commodore. You drive with a race driver in the passenger seat pushing you the whole way. Race includes lightening pitstops and driver changes just like the Bathurst 1000!
The V8 race car drive day starts with a brief but comprehensive lecture on the day, the cars, advanced driving techniques including steering, braking, oversteer, understeer and racing lines. You will also be supplied with a light breakfast.
You are then dressed in a race suit and helmet and divided into teams of 4. You will take it in turns driving 5 to 6 laps at a time on the sealed track and progressively getting faster and faster as the morning progresses. During the morning session you will practice driver changes, decide on a race order and maybe practice a race.
After a sit down gourmet lunch we are back on the track for a qualifying session where each driver will drive 3 laps as fast as they can to try for that perfect lap and a chance at the fastest qualifying trophy. The co-ordinator will now calculate the handicaps for the race based on the qualifying times. A calculated time penalty is given to each of the fastest cars with the slowest car taking off first. At the end of the race points are calculated for each team and the second race is ready to start.
In the end it’s back to the briefing room, get changed and prepare for the trophy presentation for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Certificates are handed out to everybody with your fastest lap time printed on it. You'll also get a team photo to keep as a memento of the day.
