Track day transport from Staffordshire

Donington Park

The closest of the three, on the Derbyshire and Leicestershire border next to East Midlands Airport. It's under an hour by car, so a 7:30 sign-on means leaving Brewood not long after six. On MSV's days the noise limit is a drive-by test rather than the static test the other two use, fuel is from automated pumps that take cards only, and there's no overnight camping at the circuit.

Oulton Park

North up the M6, off onto the A500 past Crewe and through the Cheshire lanes to Little Budworth. It's further than Donington but just as easy a run. On MSV days the fuel is only open for ten minutes on the hour, so fill up on the way in, and camping runs from April to October.

Cadwell Park

The long one. Around two and a half hours by car across the East Midlands into the Lincolnshire Wolds, with plenty of single-carriageway A-road at the far end. A 7:30 sign-on from Brewood means leaving before five in the morning, and that's the situation one of the most useful track day guides I've read puts in one sentence:

For a rider in Staffordshire, "a long way" means Cadwell. Donington and Oulton are early starts you can do from home; Cadwell is a five o'clock alarm followed by two and a half hours of driving before your first session, and that's before you've thought about the drive back after a full day on track. MSV's own page notes that Cadwell camping is free from April to October, which is the cheap version of Milbank's hotel. If the bike is coming by van, the timing question changes too: tell me the sign-on time and your plans for the night before, and I'll tell you straight whether the run works on the day or needs dropping off the evening before.

Every organiser runs its own timetable, and your joining instructions are the final word. MSV Trackdays, the track day arm of MotorSport Vision, which owns or operates all three circuits above, publishes the shape of a typical day event, and the first entry on it is the one that decides when you leave home:

Notice what has to happen before 7:30, not at it: the online check-in and the briefing are done at home, and the desk only checks them. Then there's a queue, because a track day is everyone arriving at once. "Arrive early as there are likely to be many of you" is the organiser telling you, as politely as it can, that 7:30 is when you should be standing at the desk with your licence in your hand, not pulling into the car park.

Plenty of riders ride to Donington and ride home again, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's the cheapest way to do it. The question is whether to transport the motorbike instead, and that comes down to what happens if the day doesn't go to plan.

One point that's easy to miss: MSV says plainly that your road policy is very unlikely to cover track day activity. If the bike goes down at Craner Curves, your road insurer may not be the one paying, and you may not want to ride it home either. That's no reason not to ride there, but it's a good reason to have a plan for the journey home before you set off.

These come from MSV's rider and bike requirements, with a couple of practical extras from BikeSocial. Tick them off as you pack; your ticks stay on this device.

Not a circuit, but the biggest date in the Midlands bike calendar. The show's official site lists Motorcycle Live 2026 at the NEC Birmingham from 21 to 29 November, with over 250 exhibitors. From Brewood it's about 32 miles and 40 minutes by car on the M54, M6 and M42, the shortest run in this guide.

Most people ride or drive to the show itself. Where I come in is the bike side of it: a club or display bike that needs taking to the NEC and collecting afterwards is a normal A to B job, priced from both postcodes like any other. If you're buying at the show from a dealer, ask them about delivery first; if it's a private bike you've found through the show, my guide to collecting a motorbike you've bought privately covers the paperwork.

If you'd like me to take the bike, these are the details that turn a question about motorbike transport to a circuit into a fixed price:

• Both postcodes: where the bike is, and the circuit's own postcode (Donington DE74 2RP, Oulton CW6 9BW, Cadwell LN11 9SE, the NEC B40 1NT).
• The date and the sign-on time from your joining instructions. MSV sends final instructions about a week before and again the day before.
• One way or there and back, and whether the return is the same evening or another day.
• The bike, and whether it's road legal. It needs to roll, steer and brake.

Track day transport is priced on total van miles, from Brewood and back: up to 100 van miles from £250, 101 to 200 from £299, and over 200 from £399, which I confirm by hand. None of the three circuits falls inside the local £99 radius. There's no VAT to add, and weekend days add a flat £50. The full list is on the prices page, and the service is explained on the track day and event transport page.

Honest limits: MC Transports is new, so there are no circuit runs to show you on this site yet, and I won't invent any. I can't promise a date until I've confirmed it with you, and I'd rather say no to a timing that doesn't work than turn up late to a 7:30 sign-on. Before the day, run through my checklist for preparing a motorbike for transport, and the rest of my writing is on the guides page.