I wouldn't hammer it for 2 hours straight!

That's the good thing about open pitlane format track days

- you enter and leave the track on your own schedule.

Personally I wouldn't do much more than 20 minutes at once

- do a cooldown lap

(very important) and give the car and driver a bit of a rest.

The one time I pushed this to 30 minutes, I cooked my alternator

Something may break

- any weak point on the car will be stressed more than normal.

Make sure your critical components are all in good condition!

Cool down laps are important

- if you dive straight into the pits, park up and turn the car off, the temperatures of everything will increase rapidly as there's no airflow to cool things down.

This can actually break stuff.

So, when you want to come in, just do one more lap

(half a lap at Snetterton 300 will be fine, it's a long track) where you take it a bit easier, to allow the car to cool down.

Obviously be mindful of others who aren't on a cool down.

Don't go 100% attack straight out of the pits

- ease into it, especially on your first trip out.

It's open pitlane, you have plenty of time to learn the track and enjoy driving on it.

It's not a race against other people or the clock.

Unless you are running track spec pads/discs and good DOT5.1 fluid, your brake performance will drop when they get over a certain temperature, so be mindful of that.

If you start to feel that happening, ease off, and allow them to cool down.

If you currently have DOT4, replace it with DOT5.1 DOT4 will boil very quickly.
