Oulton Park Circuit Details
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Circuit Guide - Oulton Park International |
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Please see individual event booking boxes for more information. Full details, including list of local accommodation, and itinerary will be sent to you once bookings are confirmed.
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Location: Butterworth Chesire. Click for map
Length: 2.7 miles
Next easyTRACK trackday: To be scheduled
Noise limit: 106db (please confirm with individual event)
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This guide is meant simply as that a guide not gospel. It is not necessarily how you will find the circuit to drive, but should give you some idea of what you will be doing:
Oulton Park is one of our favourite circuits, and the one we most regularly use in the UK.
Originally the site of Egerton House, owned by the Egerton family. The Government took over the land in the Second World War, after the house was badly damaged in a bombing. Early in the 1950s a local motoring club used what was left of the original park roads to form the circuit.
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Its first race was held in August 1953, and the popularity of the circuit and reputation as a “drivers venue” soon saw need to extend the track to the 2.7mile it is today.
Both challenging and exiting to drive, Oulton Park is a truly fantastic trackday venue.
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You exit the pit lane already past Old Hall and halfway down to the fast, downhill left-hander Cascades. You’ll need to go wide as you can on the exit, though watch out you don’t clip the grass, many a trackday driver has had as spin here. It’s then on the power towards Island. This corner is faster than it may look and feel, but you’ll have to build up to that, especially as you’ll need to get on the brakes sharpish for the banked right hand hairpin that is Shell. Turn in late (or high!) for this one. Once you are through the next two hairpins it’s up Clay hill for the most exhilarating part of the circuit. Druids takes a while to get right, but you really don’t want to get it wrong here, as you’ll see on your first visit. It’s much faster but takes skill. A tyre on the grass on exit will see a damaged car for sure. You then get to test your brakes and turn in as you enter the Lodge complex that brings you back up (after a bit of a dip!) onto the main start/finish straight. At the end of that is Old Hall, which again is a fast challenging corner. |
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