2014 - Caterham Track Day - Anglesey Circuit - Track Day Reports

Forum member Steve @Blokko and I enjoyed a track day at Anglesey Circuit, way up north in Wales. Anglesey is a small club circuit in the far north of Wales overlooking the Irish Sea. The views from the circuit are simply staggering.

Weather was great, highly unusual for this part of Wales, and there were only about 30 cars on track - all behaving well.

So both of us got a lot of track time in on this brilliant circuit where we played tag with each other.

Steve had his share of mechanical issues with the expansion bottle top losing pressure and because his tires lost grip once they reached a certain temperature - understeering out of Church at 90mph was 'interesting' to quote him!

Entertainingly, for others, I had a moment with an instructor on board early in the day. Steve was on hand to witness it:

"So I decide to sneakily follow Mike out on track for his instructor session so that I could pick up his lines. We joined the circuit at The Banking hairpin, then it’s a short straight into Church - which is a long 90 degree right hander that you can carry a lot of speed through. The next ‘proper’ corner is Rocket, but between Church and Rocket the tarmac is never actually straight – a gentle right hand curve that sharpens a bit just at the point where you might want to think about hitting the anchors. At this stage (when I got things right) I was approaching the sharp left hander of Rocket at 110. Braking here is helped by the fact that there is a steep incline on the approach to Rocket, which enables you to scrub a lot of the speed that has built up.

Except on this first lap Mike didn’t manage to scrub enough speed and he watched the apex fly by as he headed towards the infield. Fortunately he managed to make the turn before running out of tarmac – thus saving the embarrassment of going grass cutting with an instructor on board."

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