"Rental" 306 for track days?

[Niall]

Harder you drive, the closer you start to get to pushing the limits of your car. Simple.
Im sure everyone here knows where the limit of their car is and thats why you only get close to that limit. Push past that limit and considering you will be going much faster on track than on the road (well not too sure for you after some of the videos you've posted in the past), if you do exceed that limit, its going to go wrong big time.
There is nothing wrong with getting CLOSE to the limit of your car on track.

I guess at the end of the day it's about ensuring you've got something left in reserve in case you have to brake mid corner for example because someone spins and sussing out those others on track.

Don't forget, on a public track day there are so many variations in cars, slower, faster, cheap or expensive and different levels of driver. I wouldn't want to be close to my limit following a £200 shitter with a tool behind the wheel for example, but following a professional race driver in a £40,000 Merc for I'd have a good go at trying to keep up.

Maybe I read your original post wrong, sorry, I assumed you meant get on track and just go balls out the whole time close to the limit. If you build up to 8 or 9, 10ths, give people plenty of space and let things warm up and cool down you can't really go wrong.

JP

I think it goes without saying that if someone in front of you in their 1.1 saxo is potting along at 40 and slowing down to 1st gear for corners, your not going to just smash on as hard as possible and just hope hes not in your line of travel.