If you go on the internet, whether you?re searching for it or not, it won?t be long before you find someone complaining about the cost of trackdays, and how they?ve never been so expensive. So I thought I?d do some digging, to see if I can find out why, all of a sudden they?re so expensive? and it turns out, they?re not actually that expensive at all.

It is true that trackdays are ?more expensive? now than they were 20 years ago. Take a trackday at Cadwell Park for example. I can remember 20 years ago (when I started riding bikes on tarmac) a mid-week trackday was about £100. Now they are about £130. Yes, that?s more money, but in real terms, it?s quite a bit less. With inflation alone, you?re £100 2002 trackday ought to cost about £175 today, in 2022. So there?s one school of thought that says trackdays are actually cheaper than they?ve ever been.
Because of that, trackday companies are having to operate leaner and leaner, on tighter and tighter margins. Because the circuits are definitely not cheaper to hire. According to Mark Neate from No Limits Trackdays, a lot of the circuits are now two to three times more expensive to hire, compared to when he started working in the trackday industry back in 1999. That?s probably why there aren?t anywhere near as many trackday companies operating now as there used to be; who can remember Hottrax, Tracktime Promotions, Focused Events, 100% Bikes, Speedfreak Trackdays" And that?s just the ones off the top of my ...