- Check oil level.
- Check your brakes – especially the pads wear.
- Check your cooland level.
- If any of those are not ok – top up , or change. If you haven’t changed them for 2 years, change them anyway.
- Check your tyre pressure. Keep an eye on it as the trackday progresses.
- Take an extra can of your engine’s favourite oil. Trakcday is a trackday, even if your car doesn’t suck in oil on daily basis, check your engine’s oil level as the trackday progesses – MX-5 are known to ingest some of it while being tossed around the track. In case of the NA model, it sometimes manifests with HLA working louder.
- Take the helmet.
- When going for the longer tracks, fill up the gas tank.
- Even if it is supposed to be raining, take the sun lotion. You never know.
- Take some water or isotonic drinks with you – rembember to keep yourself hydrated.
- Don’t do any major work on the car the day before trackday!
- After beating your car on the track don’t turn off the engine right away, do a cool down pass – if possible. If not, set your heating to the max, it will take away some of the heat away.
- Use you imagination – you have only one life to live.
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