Fen End may have its own banked section but, this 100m mini-Karussell aside, it is not exactly the Nürburgring. In fact, having been built on the old Honiley Airfield site near Wroxall only five years ago, in circuit longevity terms the tarmac on JLR’s test track in the Midlands is barely dry. That said, you can still see the shape of the WW2 airfield in the track, about half of it directly overwriting what was there, half underlining the remainder like shadow text.
The former Prodive site crams a lot into a small space, offering one long (almost mile-long) straight, a shorter one that sweeps left before a 180º loop onto the short top section and into a standard right, which propels you back onto another long, undulating straight. Those two long stretches are connected by that sharp slingshot bank… or a flat, ground-level option for those with either less velocity or smaller . Three lanes wide, but flanked on both sides with Armco and no run-off, the Fen End track doesn’t offer a massive amount in terms of gradient change, but on my first visit I find
