Leadership Experience Days

Burnout to Breakout

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE  – 2026/27

The UK’s only Drag Racing leadership experience.

Where the strip meets the boardroom, and performance becomes visible.

  • Reward your team
  • Challenge your clients
  • Go somewhere they’ll never forget!
The Experience – £950+ VAT per delegate | Min 12 Max 16
  • Private use of 2 Santa Pod Mustang race cars
  • 3 timed runs, 2 coached and 1 solo
  • Live Jet Car demonstration (270+ mph)
  • Private hospitality with catered lunch
  • Performance debrief, timing data & trophy presentation

No racing experience required | Professional instructors | Full safety briefing | All equipment provided.

Drag racing is one of the few motorsports where women have competed alongside men at the highest level for decades.  It’s about performance, not gender.  That’s the principle of Burnout to Breakout, everyone participates and races together

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Where The Strip Meets The Boardroom

At Santa Pod, performance isn’t hidden

  • Every reaction time is measured
  • Every decision has consequences
  • Every result is visible

The same principles that separate winning drag racing teams from the rest are the principles that drive high-performing businesses

Burnout to Breakout gives your leadership team or clients a structured, high impact day that makes performance visible, measurable and unforgettable. The debrief is where the strip and the boardroom become the same conversation

Why Drag Racing?

  • Performance becomes visible
  • At work, hesitation is often hidden
  • At the start line, it isn’t

Whether you’re entertaining VIP clients or energising your leadership team, use the strip as a test for real performance.

Every participant experiences:

  • Pressure
  • Decision making
  • Focus
  • Accountability
  • Competition
  • Improvement

Santa Pod is the home of British drag racing for 60 years

  • A venue built entirely around performance, reaction time and execution
  • Every run generates data
  • Every run creates feedback
  • Every run becomes a conversation
  • The strip accelerates behaviours that already exist inside teams

Why This Doesn’t Exist Anywhere Else

Who Is This For?

The Day

The Experience – £950 + vat per delegate – Min 12 / Max 16

Whether you’re entertaining VIP clients or energising your leadership team, you use the strip as a test for real performance.

The Day – What’s Included
  • Catering
    Breakfast arrival at Santa Pod Raceway & catered lunch in private hospitality
  • Race Cars
    Private use of 2 x Santa Pod Mustang race cars
  • 3 runs
    Coached | Dual Control | Solo
  • Timed runs
    With professional marshalling
  • Instruction
    Structured briefing and performance debrief
  • Timing
    Timing data for every run
  • Awards
    Trophy ceremony
  • Jet Car
    Live Jet Car demonstration (200+ mph)
  • Souvenir
    Professional photography
The Day – Sample Itinerary
  • 8:30 am – Arrival & Breakfast
    Coffee, bacon rolls and welcome briefing on arrival at Santa Pod
  • 9:15 am – Performance Briefing
    Safety briefing, car orientation and session structure explained
  • 9:30 am – The Tree
    Practice with the lights on the track
  • 9:45 am – Mustang Run 1
    Passenger run with an experienced tutor.  Feel the launch
  • 10.30 am – Mustang Runs 2 & 3
    With your instructor, then solo.  Your strip, your run
  • 11.45 am – Jet Car Exhibition Run
    Watch the Jet Car live from your own VIP area: 270 mph in under 6 seconds.  Unmissable
  • 12pm – Catered Lunch
    Sit down lunch in private hospitality
  • 1pm – Awards Ceremony
    Performance debrief, data review, presentation

Weather Contingency & Alternative Format

Bad Weather?

If the strip is unavailable due to weather, Santa Pod’s drift programme gives you access to a drifting passenger experience with Santa Pod’s own cars, with experienced drifters and delivers another high octane thrill ride.  

An alternate date can also be arranged.

Cars

In exceptional circumstances the Santa Pod Raceway Mustangs may be replaced with equivalent cars.