We will be holding our 3rd event of the summer at Grattan Raceway on Monday August 27th.

I've lost track but I think this is our 26th event in total.

We offer a very casual and safe day for both the novice and advanced driver.

We have a solid core group who is safe, courteous, and always willing to help. We have had several forum members attend and all have been very positive about the experience.

You will get 8 20 minute sessions. Sessions consist of a novice car group, intermediate/advanced car group, and a bike group.

That usually equals over 3.5 hours of track time if you can last the day out. Most people start leaving around 2pm and we have the track until 5pm. Once the track thins out so long as there are not more than 18 vehicles on track at once we just run open track. Each session is limited to 15 vehicles until we goto open track. 45 vehicles total, 30 cars, and 15 bikes.

Catered lunch is provided, ambulance on site, and corner workers.

We stress safety and fun throughout the day and there are no hot shots or hero's. Everyone wants to drive their car home and we like people to have the most fun they can balanced with a little common sense.

If your a first timer and worried about bringing your car to the track this is a perfect event. I'd guess 75 percent of the participants at our events were first timers within the past 5 years, myself included.

We have some car and bike spots left. August events do fill but trickle in upto the date of the event.

If you have any questions please PM me or you can email me at grattanhpde@cablespeed.com to sign up.

$165 for the day, $7.00 for guests who are interested in lunch, no lunch guests are free.

Thanks

 

soun ds fun...where is this track?

 

I'd like some more information as well. I live only 15 mins from Road America so I go there a lot but I would like to try other tracks as well. Your schedule and cost are both very nice! What club is hosting this? Do I need to be a member?

 

Its by Grand Rapids, Michigan . I go there for Sportbike track days.

 

Sorry for the delay in responding I did not see the thread.

Grattan is located in Belding Michigan. 7201 Lessiter Road.

This is not a club event. We started doing this as a fun day for the people I work with(I work for Chrysler), then it continued to grow from there.

We've been doing it for 5 years now and while the majority of the participants all work for an OEM or supplier its grown into a bigger event.

Its a great day and a great track. We have some spots open for both bikes and cars. The most frequent comments we get are how well organized the day is, the large amount of track time, and most importantly the common sense and courtesy of the other drivers on the track.

Our goal is to put on an event that attracts both the experienced driver while being friendly to the novice. I was new to this 5 years ago and put the first event on blindly without having anything besides some drag racing experience.

We'd love to get some more bikes out on the track. We try to include them at 2 events but its tough getting 15 bikes to go. If we can't get a full bike group we might just switch to all cars, or cars/karts for the middle two events.

Thanks for your interest and let me know if you have any other questions.