Magny Cours is the former home of the French Grand Prix and offers excellent facilities comparable to any other circuit on the calendar. The mirror smooth surface to the track is perfect for Formula 1 with the circuit configuration offering a fabulous blend of fast straights, long sweeping corners such as Estoril and tight hair-pins such as the challenging Adelaide where you approach at nearly 190 mph before getting hard on the brakes. The circuit length of 4.25 km makes it very much a ‘real’ Grand Prix circuit without making it difficult to learn. You can also choose a V8 F1 car, a V10 or a combination of both.

With a limit of 20 drivers for the day you will have plenty of time to talk one-to-one with the instructors and benefit from their experience and advice. A classroom briefing will be followed by passenger laps on the track to see the racing lines and braking points before you head out on track in an F3 Martin-Ford. With a 140 mph top speed and sequential shift these nimble and very rapid single seaters are perfect to learn the circuit.   There will be 2 sessions of F3 before lunch served at the track and then the special F1 briefing.

In the pit lane a squadron of F1 cars from Benetton, Jaguar, Williams and Prost await. The engines are fired up and that distinctive and glorious roar of F1 race cars warming up sets the pulse racing.  You are fitted into the cockpit, harness tightened and then waved onto the circuit – the track is all yours.  You have no artificial rev limits or speed limits. You are in control. Enjoy the tremendous acceleration and the incredible stopping power of the carbon brakes as you scrub off speed into the 25 mph Adelaide hairpin.  It’s hard to believe that you really are driving an F1 car on a real grand Prix circuit. Unforgettable. To top off the day add on extra F1 laps or a passenger ride in the unique F1 3-seater.

Magny Cours is less than 5 hours from Calais and 150 miles south east of Paris. With excellent motorway connections the track is very accessible and with the vineyards of Bourgogne on the doorstep it’s in a truly beautiful part of France.