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@NurseHolliday
Brands is amazing, it's honestly one of my favourites, but it doesn't have huge run off, however it's hard to get it that wrong there unless you royally fuck up Paddock. We've all heard the story of me dropping 2 wheels into the gravel at Druids and getting stuck because I was braking later and later each lap until I panicked and just didn't turn the wheel. Red flag, which is usually a big off at Brands, everyone craning necks to see what's happened. I'm barely off the track, beached in the gravel. I felt embarrassed.
My point is it's not generally classed as a "beginner" track but that doesn't mean you can't have a good time there. I do recall one day where a novice on his first trackday in his MK3 MR2 put it into the gravel on the outside of Paddock 3 times! They asked him to chill out after that.