What has happened to The Grand Tour test track since they left? 

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Never felt too connected to the eboladrome since the guys rarely spent a ton of time there. Was mainly just for power laps if I recall. Whereas with the TGTT you could routinely see Jeremy, James, and Richard mucking about together during episodes and challenges.

I'd go for a bigger, more wide-open track. I know it couldn't be the old Top Gear track, but the Eboladrome always felt very confined and closed off. It never really looked like a true race track.

Castle Combe seems to be the best option when taking into consideration the pros and cons. Compared to the others mentioned it also looks like one of the better tracks to drive when seeing onboard footage of the place. I'd go with that one for Drive Tribe.

Castle Combe or Thruxton hands down. Side note, would love to see a cheap car challenge or 2. Nothing wrong with running with an awesome format. Ben vs Tiff vs Abbie would be a riot

feel like thruxton and castle combe would be the best for ragging a car and properly testing its handling, however the airfield style tracks just allow more creativity

I'd like to see videos from all of them but I think Castle Combe or Llandow are probably the best options from a business point of view. From a fans point of view I'd love it to be RAF Wroughton

Castle Combe would be my choice. Quarry Corner can be filmed relatively easily from the exit area and you get some great shots of cars going tripod on you if you push it there, been around there with the back out in a Peugeot 306gti and it is a very fun corner indeed. The Esses can be filmed from near the same place for a rear view of the car and Dean Straight has a possible camera angle for a fast pass. Also the Castle Inn is just around the corner for a swift half on the way home.

I’d opt for castle Combe. Been there myself and the track has a lot to offer and is a pretty fast track being almost 3km in length. Not to mention it’s got an off-road track, although basic, which is used for rally experiences.

Another downside to Wroughton-the museum wants to use it for public exhibits, which would probably mean limiting its use. Of all the options, Castle Combe would be the closest to what you need

Castle Combe. I understand the filming situation is not optimal, but I wonder if filming with drones may alleviate some of that issue? Also I remember top gear, there was never really 100% coverage of the car just from certain angles. I'm certain Castle Combe could work the same to a degree

either the GT track or Castle Combe. The Castle Combe track being difficult to film might end up causing creative camera angles and solutions,so I'm routing for that one

Just do what everyone else does... race through central London on a Saturday night! Plenty of Lambos, Ferraris and other marques on show as well :-)

“they vacated this test track, which for legal reasons we can’t give it the name Jeremy gave it” you can’t legally say most things that Jeremy does

I say Castle Combe. While it might be difficult to film it definitely appears to be more visually aesthetic than Llandow. As long as the expense isn't too high either.

I'll come and break down in the Lambo somewhere with gigantic runoff and easy access to a fire engine 👍

For me, it's Castle Combe, I've been there pleanty of times and while filming on a few corners would be tricky, there's quite a few corners where I think it would be ideal. I'd like to rule out 'test tracks' to allow actual racing to take place as well. Keeps video options open. You wouldn't be able to go side by side down the isn'tstraight at full speed

As someone who has been to the circuits mentioned to watch races, I would say: 1. Llandlow 2. Castle Combe 3. Eboladrome 4. Thruxton 5. Airfields Llandlow is the best for making videos but is a bit plain, Castle combe would be the best test for a car but is busy and is flanked by a tire wall and a cornfield, Eboladrome would probably cost the most and be the 'worst' but has the gt connection, Thruxton is just too busy and expensive and the airfields, well they vary but most would not be suitable.

I’d go for Llandow, even if it isn’t the most visual and might need some coordination with others, there’s a reason they use it… Marshalls being included won me over since the location is handy

As I live in Swindon, I'd love for you guys to make Wroughton your home, however, I think Castle Combe is probably the best option

I have ridden Castle Coombe on a motorbike and it is actually very challenging with a few fast corners - but also a couple that would bite. Also easy to get to - so it gets my vote.

Definitely gives me more appreciation for Abby’s hard racing with those speedy cars. If you see this, Abby, we hope you are doing well!

I never liked the eboladrome, it always seemed a bit too small/tight for the cars going round it. Thruxton would be by far the most exciting in my opinion but I do understand that there's a business to run as well, so the cost and availability of track time probably is an issue.

Definitely LLandow, as I wouldn't mind seeing Top Gear filming in the background, and there are basically no other cons. I can't find the mod for assetto corsa and the only link to a beta version no longer exists. I will test both Thruxton and Castle Combe to see if they are worth more than their cons. (Would be cool to have the GT track if you could manage it).

The look of this track is iconic, the backgrounds, the straightaways. It’s incredible

I like the GT track, but if i had to choose otherwise, it would br castle combe or thruxton

I'm for airfields. The creative potential is endless, plus it's cheap and you can get many speeds.

I don't know enough about the other tracks to pick one, but I would like to vote against the Eboladrone. As a viewer, it never really caught my fancy. It always seemed too constricted or something. Maybe an airport would give you some flexibility if you are allowed to place tire walls and such on the premises.

What a great video, well done guys. Leagues above other content creators on this platform

This is going to sound weird but I think you should go for the cheapest option. Less money = more videos on track!

I vote for an airfield... but only if you do a bit of dressing up with things like tirewalls, rumble strips\curbs, pretty much anything to defines the bends more than a bit of paint. Would be nice to get a full on lap of a track but also be able to do a full on speed run\drag race down the runway.

I think circular tracks should not be a major issue to film at, quite the opposite, something that has always annoyed me from both Top Gear & Grand Tour track films is that it's very difficult to visualise the track from the angles they used, i'm a bigger fan of longer, broader shots flowing from one corner to the other, or down the straight. The FPV drone footage used on DT or GT ( was it carnage au trois? ) was amazing and made it so easy to get into where the car was & seeing the corner coming up, long before it hit it, leading to some more investment into it's performance around it

thruxtons a great track, i grew up in the neighbouring village and spent alot of time there, my first job at 14 was in the pilots club and the owners would regularly let me take bikes around the track and over the grounds surrounding it. great memory's there so would love to see you guys on it

It never felt like a test track. It felt like they needed something quickly and this was what they could get hold of. Now that it's just specials, they could have a custom built track. Plus if DriveTribe is going to become a more prominent staple for car testing. Then maybe it'll become the "Top Gear" of Grand Tour.

I live literally 5 minutes up the road from Wroughton in Swindon... having the trio use the airfield as their track was crazy enough, but I reckon you guys could make it even more special! I really hope you guys can seal the deal on it 👍

My dad used to do autotesting on the airfield with old austin healeys in a club. So the airfield has already actually had its fair share of motor racing around it.

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The old grand tour track should stay as memories of the grand tour and this show is very much different and should create different memories any other track other then the top gear one for obvious reasons would be perfect.

Castle Coombe would seem nearest to meeting your requirements, its also quite well connected via the M4 and other major routes to the rest of the country, even Richard would not have to far to come from Ross and Jeremy is nearly on its doorstep.

Castle Combe or Llandow. Handy location is in my opinion over erverything (quality of life for you producers) when it is affordable. Really happy to see you asking the fans and also explaining the video-title side of things, as it is something not many youtubers/tv-companies talk about. appreciate the video

I'd go for a home base at Castle Combe with special stuff occasionally done on the Eboladrome, Enstone, and other tracks Clarkson, Hammond, and May have used or thrown celebrities at over the years. Would allow for special things every once in a while while being on a professional track for regular stuff and keeping costs lower than using the Eboladrome full time completely funding everything. Definitely the riskiest but if you guys had the funds and the risks were deemed acceptable I'd say you could pick one of the old airfields to build new tracks on, maybe looking to the local government for support. Surely there are some completely unused places just waiting for some TLC and burning rubber. Having a test track designed by Drivetribe, Clarkson, Hammond, and May open to drive on for a small fee when not filming would potentially bring some tourism. Again that is significantly more risky.

Castle Coombe!! Love that circuit. Thruxton is brilliant but like you said it has more big race meets. Castle Coombe I'm fairly sure would benefit from you being there as much as you would and it's far better than Wroughton to look at. Plus it has spectator areas so if you ever wanted to put on a public event, you'd have the option of inviting people to watch.

Castle Combe, there’s lots of spectator mounds that will give great viewing angles for filming, and has a nice mixture of straights and fast corners

Fun fact, it wasn’t the first time Richard Hammond drove here, actually Richard raced a G-Wiz against a Mustang in Top Gear and it is in Swindon, Wiltshire branch of the science museum.

Landow of Castle Combe for me. I love the Eboladrome but as others have said before, it can seem a bit tight. There's also nothing wrong with a large open spaced airfield! You can set up your own track at that point.

Castle Combe or Llandow. Having them close would be nice and less of a commute and more time for fun.

something with more memorable sections with wideshots like the original top gear track. That tack was great because you could easily see how much faster one car or driver was going through the parts. That was very difficult in the ebola because of the trees. On the speed parts it'd be great to be filming from a few hundred yards away so you can really get a feel for the speed of specific cars and drivers.

A challenging airfield sounds entertaining. And if there are numbers painted on the tarmac, that looks nice too.

I’d go for Thruxton, with Castle Combe a close second. A lot of heritage with those airfield circuits.

I say we keep the "Ebola drome". It means a lot to the fans of Grand Tour, but while expensive, I feel like memories outweigh the cost of returning the the track

I never quite liked R.A.F. Wroughton (Eboladrome) as an actual race track because the layout never lent itself well to actually being one. I think it would be something nice to keep in the back pocket for B-Roll and thumbnail/cover pics for cars, though. For a new track, I think Llandow and Castle Combe would be the best options. Thruxton would be too expensive without substantial financial backing. For the airfields, while the open space can let you be very creative with layouts, the dodgy tarmac and the air traffic raises lots of red flags for me.

I think Llandow has to be the way to go. Castle Combe is my local, and they have noise restrictions as well, and I know all the large corners have got very high fencing all the way around. Llandow has everything you need, and I'm sure running into the likes of Top Gear might get you more publicity. All the others seem to have major issues with them.

I ride past this place a few times a year - you’d never know if you didn’t Google maps it 😅

Castle Combe from business perspective, but Thruxton as a test track is frankly elite tier tbh

Bedford aerodrome? Just a few miles from Santa Pod as well. They also just cleared a load of old RAF buildings right next to it so loads of space to build new things.

Could always use a different one of them depending on what you are going to film. Say you're doing a high speed race, use Thruxton, if you're going to just simply test how something goes along the straight, use the second one. You don't have to be confined to just one track and that can keep the visuals for vids interesting

Wonderful Old Lady's House is actually what it says. Just thought it was some TG/GT silliness. And my vote is this one! 👍

Don’t blame the car for the slowless.. it has two engines ..lol

old lady in old ladies house must be a HUGE car fan to be living in such close proximity to the buffoons over at grand tour blasting down the road in front of her house; you know 99% of those engines were NOT quiet in the slightest ... what a legend!

What about Abingdon? Not sure what the ownership arrangement is but it could be a possibility.

Go for the airfield and build concept tracks and the fans vote for which one they want to see. Change the track design up after some videos. Keeping it fresh and giving the driver and car new challenges.

I think filming around Castle Combe would be great, Hammond can build a dedicated filming car in his workshop, one of those with a big crane on top, and it can drive about filming the cars around the circuit.

The Eboladrome is the only one that has all of the types of cornering that we would want to see. There are straights, hard pushed g-force corners and long turns. I would get rid of the gravel. That would be my only ask, but its not a deal-breaker. Love you guys! Keep it up :)

This is great. So pumped to see the direction of drive tribe.

Although its a little small Llandow gets my vote as its a tight tricky sprint track so plenty of action if you give it large plus its close and being the smallist should be easier to film

I feel like castle Combe is the best decision as it is already laid out and it’s very easy to learn. There’s also barriers and so on

I appreciate your predicament. I know what I used to charge for full emergency ambulance with a paramedic crew per day. It seems a lot but try sitting in a freezing ambulance for 12 hours or so, plus travel to and from the venue. Then add on training, fuel, consumables and equipment. Go for somewhere the marshalls are included.

Castle Combe would definitely be the best move! It may be a big ring road but it’s still got some fairly tricky corners and the straights can get you up to silly speeds

I would turn one of the airfields into something again, it is sort of the tradition and turning the next one into a racetrack would be continuing that tradition.

Oh hey, the eboladrome i haven't seen the iconic grand tour track in a while. Though not like the old track when jezza captain slow and hamster were working in bbc but hey, i'm glad the drivetribe used it to test out all cars in upcoming videoes

After looking at them on gmaps, I think hullavington has the most potential, with many options for layout using the perimeter roads .

Spent weekends there in 90s doing flying rally's with air çadets was great back then also great in electrical storm

I'd put my money on Castle Combe. It's fast and I've been there enough times for Rally Day and done some experience days there. It's got the carting and the off road area for when you're doing other types of vehicles. The track is fast and there are the points for getting the shots. If you have access the drones, then the sky is literally the limit when filming.

Fun Fact: Former Stig Ben Collins said he thought the Eboladrome was a terrible track.

There are quite a number of disused airfields around the area. It would offer flexibility for a custom circuit and be something unique to the channel. It would also be fun to name the straights and corners too!

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I love castle coombe so I'm definitely biased when picking it. Also I like going to thruxton every so often however I feel like it's too big to be viable. Would love to see castle Combe getting more love.

A compromise : regulars on the other tracks but big shoot outs on Wroughton as a special or something. Only way to keep costs on the low and visually appealing for us as well.

Getting an airfield and designing a layout could be a whole series of videos.

Something about seeing the lady from "old ladies house" and also knowing she's still kicking makes me happy haha

I think Llandow makes the most sense! Cheapest, so you can put more money into more videos, marshals are there for you already, it's a simple track, it seems like a pretty fast track whilst having the necessary corners to test agility and whatever else, and it's not really an issue that it'll look same-y. I think most of the tracks will have that issue. It just seems most logical to me.

I think i've gotta lean towards Castle Combe, It's a great circuit that isn't quite as ruinously expensive as the others. An airfield is also always great, but of course there is the time constraints, and staffing issues. Just seems like a smaller but established racetrack is the best value proposition.

Dayum, seeing that mg/rover cruising on that road gave me shivers

Longcross Studios near Chertsey is brilliant you could create a small track when you need to be near London.

Come on man. You just shut down the website because it was bleeding cash. Whose idea is it to bleed MORE money by getting a new track !!

You know Jimmy has made it when he get put in a list of 4 drivers that include Tiff.

its gotta be either thruxton or castle combe surely, but nothing would please me more than a track laid out on an old airfield, classic TG style. a true return to form.

Great stuff, keep it up

Combe would make the most sense, but Wroughton would be unique and if the Science museum want to help develop it for testing as well that should be able to help offset things

It's got to be Castle Combe or R.A.F Wroughton, both 2 very exciting tracks

Llandow is pretty visual too, with the sea in the background.

A combination of Llandow being the main hub with occasional visits to other tracks in particular Castle Combe and Thruxton could be nice. Saves on money whilst still getting a bit of variety.

The E-drome would definitely be the optimal choice seeing as The Grand Tour spawned DriveTribe, so it's got that whole heritage aspect to it. But seeing as it's so expensive, maybe you could start off at another track and once DriveTribe grows a lot more (which I'm certain it will) and have built up a larger cash flow and all that, you can then switch to the E-drome.

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Used to be used for single venue car rallies in the 80s , been round there a few times !

So either sticking with RAF wroughton or thruxton. The memories of the GT are cool to keep but I think thruxton would be a more viable option

RAF has GT Connection but the straight gets use twice in a lap so its terrible for racing so i would like to see LLandow or Combe

i was lucky enough to Kite Buggy around a lot of this track when it used to host Swindon Kite Festival.

stay at wroughton its the og and its my hometown would never have thought the trio would grace this ancient village