Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park

Awesome speedway, leave it to group on morons to ruin a tracks star rating. You wanna have fun build a car don’t rent one stupid groupon people

I’ve been going to Thompson since I was a little kid. It’s my home track, and there’s something peaceful about going here. I love going to other tracks like stafford and seekonk, but Thompson will always be my favorite.

Did the TSMP autocross experience. The track is set up with cones on the skid pad. My boyfriend got to drive the Lamborghini and the Mercedes SLS AMG for about $ 100 from a groupon. People were disappointed that they weren’t on the actual track, but they offer a groupon for $ 499 for that, which compared to other road course exotics is competitive. Read/​know what you buy so you don’t let yourself down. Awesome experience.

Brought a Groupon for this racetrack as a birthday gift but they didn’t clarify that insurance was not included. They didnt even mention it at the time of reserving a date! Once he got there, he was informed that he has to pay for insurance which cost AS MUCH AS THE GROUPON! Absolute cheats! He didnt end up using the Groupon and thanks a lot for the wasted trip!

bought a groupon for my husband for 5 laps of race track.
Two major disappointments:
–race track very short and windy, so you aren’t able to go fast at all
–insurance is NOT included; I find this to be incredibly deceptive and unprofessional, since after you have bought the groupon they try to charge you extra for the insurance.
not worth the money.

Awesome racing facility. It has it all: NASCAR oval, road course for SCCA and NASA. Track days for cars and bikes. Really friendly and helpful employees. I love this place!

Thompson Speedway’s revamped Motorsports park is a brand new facility that features a revamped road course from many years ago superimposed on their classic NASCAR oval track. I will qualify myself as having some experience in autocross, high performance driver education, as well as track days
The new facility boasts a lot for what it is, from a restaurant, to a golf course, to a specialized high performance driver school. They have track days that you can do through organizations that rent the track like SCDA, NASA, SCCA and Hooked on Driving as well as other car clubs we all know about like Porsche, BMWCCA and others. They also offer a driver’s club with a buy in fee that is not for everyone, but quite literally an order of magnitude (that’s right, ¹⁄₁₀^th or only 10%) as expensive as other driver clubs like Lime Rock.
I am impressed with the facility. While it is very new and the management is not ready to present their facility, I like the fact that they try to keep expectations low because the Northeast has seen many other road courses offer spots for as yet unfinished road courses that keep getting delayed, or never built. In this case Thompson Speedway makes few promises and lets any prospective drivers let the experience speak for itself, which for most elements, is excellent.
The road course is a 1.7 mile track with mostly tight, technical curves taken at highway type speeds (say 50 – 80), but the long, nearly ½ mile straightaway will test your car’s top end power as well as (yikes!) braking ability towards the end as it careens into a tight, 195 degree right hand double apex. It’s a lot of fun and while short for a track, far more technical than it looks. Even experienced drivers with SCCA or NASA competition licenses are still not sure as to the optimal approach for more than a few of its curves, and what keeps the experience fresh and fun is that many of these curves have more than one optimal line.
One thing I like about Thompson Speedway is that the safety element is encouraged above all through all their activities. For example when driving the track at every turn there will be a flag station ready to wave to you different flags which are reviewed before every track day to make sure that you don’t get into trouble. Safety inspections for your car’s health are mandatory to drive here and they won’t let you show up with brake fluid more than a year old. Competitive classes that race against the clock allow more passing and aggressive behavior, but for noncompetitive events passing is limited to the safest areas and enforcement is strict. They’re perfectly nice as long as you’re respectful of others’ safety, but anyone wanting to drive here with a bad attitude exhibiting reckless or unsafe behavior will be quickly dealt with.
Also available are a series of SCCA certified instructors to either run with you in your car, and all of them are of high quality with good experience. You can also do a driving school here that is pricey, but lets you drive their VW diesel race cars for a day with lots of track time; I have not done that though so I cannot comment.
The NASCAR track has not changed but is a delight because the two turns have different inclinations and camber. It’s trickier than just driving around in circles, and unlike places like NHMS or Daytona where you have to pay out the wazoo for pit passes and you don’t even get to see half the stuff, here you can interact with drivers and be literally touching their car as they fire the motor and go do practice laps. It’s a great place for the family to go and smell unburnt hydrocarbons, clutch, brakes and feel the intoxicating vibe of high performance as your hair vibrates from the exhaust note of the race motors running here.
Other parts of the facility include a golf course I know nothing about. The restaurant is not bad considering the price range, the chef is a passionate individual whose attitude reflects well on the dining here. Occasionally he has some really nice meals and you can find some hidden treasures in the specials menu. For track events and club days, they pull out all the stops with their food which is a nice plus.
One negative that should be obvious as mentioned on another review is the exotic car part. You pay hundreds of dollars to drive a hundred thousand dollar car around their autocross. These in general are rip offs and they abound around the country; Thompson Speedway has one. I agree with their not letting people drive these cars on the track as most people are utterly unprepared to deal with a road course environment in a 500horsepower death traps. So their exotic car experience is to be avoided, but everything else her is oustanding.
I am happy that finally the Rhode Island area has venues like Thompson and ADSI which are at the same level as Lime Rock or NHMS but don’t require such a long drive to reach. If you have a fast car, go ahead and take the plunge, you’ll have a blast on track here!

Driving a fast car on a track is not something you do everyday. I called this place before purchasing two vouchers for 5-​laps each and specifically asked about the track for that voucher since I knew that few places had regular tracks for members only. The receptionist confirmed that we would drive on track which is 1.7 mile long.
On the day of the ride, staff was good and friendly and they offered me to chose a car between a Lamborghini and a Nissan GTR since their Ferrari was not operational. I picked Lambo, no surprise here, but the surprise came when I looked at the track, the track wasn’t the full size regular track, instead it was an area smaller than a football field marked by the cones. I was highly disappointed and I explained the situation to the staff there. The Instructor was good and he apologized for the situation but he couldn’t do anything.
I was able to glide through the turns at a decent speed but Lamborghini is a nice ride and all you’re paying at this place is to sit in a Lambo, if you’re looking for a fast ride and thrill, then you’re at the wrong place because you barely get to 70 mph and then you have to hit the brakes, track is too small to get to a decent speed.
I would rather have one lap of regular track instead of 5-​laps on the mini track.