Anybody here done a trackday at Jerez? Just wondered how easy it was to get to, a quick look at some flight sites has me doing 2 plane changes on the way. No thanks!!
you will pass the circuit to get from the jerez airport to the town.......there must be flights direct.
ryanair fly direct every other day, if you can face flying with them, otherwise seville is 2 hrs, malaga 3.5 hrs drive im doing jerez with focussed in october with some mates, possibly squeeze u into the car if thats the one your thinking of doing (we are all in london)
As Andy says if you can get a flight to Jerez you'll pass the circuit pretty much on the way into Jerez itself
I've just signed up for Jerez 19-21 Nov with No Limits...first time there. Anyone else going? Your thoughts on the track etc very welcome.
Yep, there's a group of us going, personally it's my first time to Jerez but some of the lads have been before. We're flying Gatwick to Saville with Sleazyjet on Saturday 17th back on Thursday 22nd.
Great to hear...I look forward to meeting you and talking bike bollox for the duration. I'm taking my 1098 but also an ancient ZXR750 for a mate who's flying over from Atlanta for it...we'll be easy to spot as they'll no doubt be a growing pool of oil spreading from under ONE of the two bikes! He's a Duc fan too - has a 1098 at home (wouldn't fit in his luggage allowance). We're in the Intermediates, only able to do the Mon/Tues but I figure that will be more than enough. I've had to fly into Gib Sunday (and he's flying into Seville Sun too). What bike are you taking, Drinky - the KTM?
Yep, look out for a black RC8 and a bald headed bloke with a boxers nose, that's me. I'm going with a right old mix of blokes guaranteed to have a great laugh for the whole trip. Why flying to Gib, any particular reason? I'm sure I'll see you at Swindon for the bike drop off.
Looking forward to seeing and hearing the RC8 on track...loved it the moment it came out. Couldn't get direct flights to Jerez or Seville for the days I need to travel...only booked this on Tuesday as a last minute panic contingency plan when a Cartagena track event over the same dates fell through. I'm just mightily relieved the switch was possible, given my mate had booked his flight from Atlanta . Yep, probably see you at Swindo0n...cheers.
It's a fairly easy track to learn, but hard to go quick on if you know what I mean, you have good visibility through most of the corners there's only really one (Sito Pons) where it's a blind entry and off camber but every lap you'll kick yourself that you could have gone faster. If you like fast flowing tracks like Donington you'll love Jerez.
Good to hear, thanks. Never done Donington (that's an official crime isn't it?), but love Silverstone Arena which feels fast flowing, so I'm sure I'll love Jerez. Daft question, but direction is clockwise looking down on the track map, correct? More right-handers then left?
Yup clockwise, the front half of the circuit has a good combination of lefts and the back half has some ridiculously fast right handers
Donnington and Silverstone are 'chalk and cheese' mate. If Freak compares it to Donny then thats a thumbs up from me.
Donington to me is fast and flowing with good visibility through all but redgate and coppice, some good elevation changes and the odd flat out section, Silverstone on the other hand is fast, flat with very few reference points to use and little personality for me at least. I like Silverstone but I wouldn't put it up there as one of the best. Jerez though is like two tracks in one, the first half is more technical, tighter, more twisty... demanding, and the second half is all about how fast you can go and how big your balls are in the corners, there's a series of right handers (3) which build through the gears 3-4-5-6 to the famous Rossi/Gibernau hairpin. I recall chasing someone down into the last right-hander which is very very fast mid-corner they must have botttled it stood the bike up and went stright on at speed through the kitty litter, I just carried on winding the throttle open but casually watched as they meandered off in my peripheral vision, quite weird LOL.
super grippy track, very hard on front tyres, turn 1-2-3 tricky to get right but once you nail it you can absolutely have it round jerez. you can literally throw the bike into the corners, use the front grip to scub the speed and then jump power out of the great track for a tourqey twin. ran rings round lots of r1's and beemer 1000 rr's on an 800 monster in inters last year, cant wait to see what i can do on the 998
