View Full Version : Where is the nearest skid pan in or around Sheffield?


Windsor
11-11-2007, 20:53
Where is the nearest skid pan in or around Sheffield ?

Windsor
18-11-2007, 23:29
Has no-one done this kind of thing here??

Deebles
18-11-2007, 23:32
Don't think there is one in or around Sheffield!

Nazo
19-11-2007, 07:08
Isn't there one up at Norton? It's been a good few years since I learned to drive so it may well have closed but there was a driver training centre up there where kids can have a go before they're ready to go on the roads and I think there was a skid pan there.

Lucy-Lastic
19-11-2007, 09:52
I went to one in York last year - it was at the Elvington Airfield I think. It was brilliant - they used slippy tyres and water instead of the other way:D

slickwitch
19-11-2007, 09:55
There are some fantastic Skidders in Agent Orange's pants

Windsor
19-11-2007, 11:46
Isn't there one up at Norton? It's been a good few years since I learned to drive so it may well have closed but there was a driver training centre up there where kids can have a go before they're ready to go on the roads and I think there was a skid pan there.

Thanks Nazo, I believe the driver TC at Norton has closed unfortunately. They used to have a pan too.

RedAlpha
28-11-2010, 01:15
Wow, just did a search on skid pans and I'm having no luck anywhere -on here too it appears! Does anybody know of a skid pan NOW? Cheers

Vague_Boy
28-11-2010, 02:18
Wow, just did a search on skid pans and I'm having no luck anywhere -on here too it appears! Does anybody know of a skid pan NOW? Cheers

According to this site (http://www.skidpan.net/booking.htm), there are skid pans at Castle Donington, Derbyshire, Elvington, North Yorkshire and Manchester City Stadium, Greater Manchester.

I'm guessing that the Derbyshire one is the nearest.

Paddy
28-11-2010, 05:13
Any large outdoor car park at the moment.

slick rick73
28-11-2010, 05:52
we saw some lads in tesco car park on abbeydale road using it as a skid pan.

they crashed it into a bollard.

we did laugh.

ChrisT70
28-11-2010, 15:22
manby showground if you google it, they have a driver training centre, with skid control cars. there is no proper skid pan at elvington airfield tho, we use it regularly for trackdays. rockingham have a proper basalt tile facility with water jets which is superb, have done that course but its about £180.
companies sometimes use cars with grip adjustable ride height frames bolted to them to simulate loss of grip, usually on empty airfields.