In reply to Blue Straggler:
My wife arranged for me to have 3 car blast for my Birthday. It was run by the same company that does the Stafford one, but I did mine at Sherburn in Elmet near Leeds.
I had the 3 supercar blast -- and went from the sublime to the ridiculous -- ASton Martin DB9, Ferrari 360 Modena, and the Ariel Atom.
The organisation was pretty chaotic, and despite turning up about an hour before I was due to 'sign' in, was told that despite booking in advance there would be significant delays between drives due to the sheer number of people - many of whom had just turned up 'on the day'.
The staff were extremely helpful ( if overworked ). With all of the noise and people milling around the various points it was easy not to hear when your name was called, and a number of people missed their allocated time slots.
Facilities were extremely basic -- I was lucky to have gone on a dry and warm day -- I'd not have enjoyed standing around in the open in wind and rain. There was no shelter for spectators.
The driving itself was good -- the instructors excellent - but the track itself was very short, and even with the 'pedal to the metal' it was difficult to get up to over 100mph before reaching the braking zone. I got 2 laps in each car -- each lap was about 1.5 miles - 12 miles total, but it felt a lot less. (Google earth measures the straight at about 800 metres.)
I paid for photographs and the in car videos - however the photos were not brilliant -- The close up one of me in the ferrari, as I was setting off, the photographer had managed to get the wing mirror right in front of my face. My wife had never used my SLR camera before and was able to get better photos from the spectator area! The in car video did not work -- they had problems previewing the files at the venue, but I was given the stick anyway. When I got it home I found it did not work and the files appeared to be missing. I'm still in dispute with them awaiting a refund.!
Overall, whilst I enjoyed the day, the experience was let down by fairly shambolic organisation, poor photography, and faulty video equipment. - Particularly galling as the photos and videos were 'extras' I'd paid for.
Driving the Atom was FUN!!!! -- though probably not quite as scary as descending Waddington Fell at almost 50mph on a bicycle!