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Author Topic: your own racetrack  (Read 3574 times)

truescot

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your own racetrack
« on: June 29, 2008, 12:49:15 PM »

I am sure we have all thoughth at one point or another that if we where rich we would build our own racetrack for ourselves and our friends but what does this actually entail and what sort of layout would you want.

I guess the obvious answer for the layout is that you would try to copy the best corners from the best tracks and one long streight for high speed runs and a space in the middle for a smaller dirt bike track.


As for the cost of building such a thing i am clueless, i saw on a top gear episode it costs almost a million per mile of road laid which seams a little over the top, my grandfather and his brother laid their own tarmac on the road on his farm and that was a couple of miles for a very small amout for the day and driveways are constructed at a much cheaper rate per mile than that all over the country regularly. 

Also i assume you could forget about insurance since everyone on the track does so at their own risk or is this wrong nowadays.

So people what i want to know is what you feel about track specs, what are your favourate corners, how long should the run outs be width etc and in the end would like to know how many of britains bikers would have to club together to be able to afford a place of their own to get away from draconian road policies.
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2008, 01:16:32 PM »

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and in the end would like to know how many of britains bikers would have to club together to be able to afford a place of their own to get away from draconian road policies.

Even if we all chipped in I doubt we could afford France :D
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2008, 01:39:52 PM »

Let's chip and buy Spa then :lol: before the F1 boys emasculate it like Hockenheim.
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truescot

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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2008, 01:52:15 PM »

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and in the end would like to know how many of britains bikers would have to club together to be able to afford a place of their own to get away from draconian road policies.

Even if we all chipped in I doubt we could afford France :Do hunt truf

very true but we could afford a small piece of northern france nice and cheap, just have to get our little pink pigs out  hunting truffles, i'm sure andy will have some
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2008, 03:20:52 PM »

you still need insurance for tracks fella , liabilty etc ..... health and safety always has to be follow hence briefings and flags and groups etc etc all follow rules  B-)
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2008, 03:30:43 PM »

you still need insurance for tracks fella , liabilty etc ..... health and safety always has to be follow hence briefings and flags and groups etc etc all follow rules  B-)

Are you 100% sure?, If all the people riding where owners wouldnt it make it their own risk as long as you are not breaking planning laws.  i.e in my own garden i can do truely dangerous things that could seriously injure myself and if i co-own a garden with someone and a tree in that garden is not kept in good condition, falls and kills him who would be liable??

or more aptly had laid a crap garden path in said garden and whilst he was riding his bmx hit a pot hole, fell and broke all his limbs(i've seen bmx crashes give me a low-side anyday)
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2008, 04:38:42 PM »

if its your own track and you are riding on it them its fine.... you wouldn't need public liability as its not public.....  :icon_thumright:
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2008, 05:30:14 PM »

if its your own track and you are riding on it them its fine.... you wouldn't need public liability as its not public.....  :icon_thumright:

Thats kind of what i figured, however a lot more diffult challanges would have to be overcome well bofore it every came to that stage :)

and my favourite corner that would have to be included would be the carrosel from nurburgring
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2008, 07:09:52 PM »

The carrosel takes the biggest balls of any corner I've been through. To throw it into the bottom is SCARY!!!!!!!! :shock:
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2008, 07:24:47 PM »

got to have the corkscrew from Laguna Seca and be as wide as Anglesey and about 4 km total length

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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2008, 07:43:06 PM »

Misano and Cadwell joined together somehow,but cadwell would need to be widened!!
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2008, 08:16:34 PM »

silverstone, oulton, cadwell,brands,rocky national,cartagena  all in one  :tongue3:
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2008, 08:19:32 PM »

FooK that!!....my lOOp,widened with all the road side furniture removed,run off on the dodgy corners and only moi and my Muckers allowed on it!!.....120 miles of track hoonery!!!  :headbang:
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2008, 08:19:46 PM »

A right handed gerards leading into a left handed gerards  :lol:
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Re: your own racetrack
« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2008, 08:21:11 PM »

This sort of think is what I keep buying my lottery tickets for  :icon_thumleft:  .... but I've not thought about the details of what I'd have yet .........  :icon_scratch:
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