Off-Road Track Building – Jumpers For Goalposts
Off Road Track - Click to Enlarge
One of the great things about off-road racing is you just need a patch of ground. You don’t need a £10,000 tarmac track to race on.
At SHMCC we used the grass car park, behind the rostrum to make a track. In true “jumpers for goalposts” style we just stuck some cones down, marked a few lines between them with whatever was lying around, and got on and did some racing.
The end result was surprisingly challenging. The back straight (slightly off the top of the above pic!) lead onto a gravel road, then back onto grass, back over the tarmac road again, round onto a table-top made of old tyres and pallets, over another small jump, then through a grass and paving slab section, across the loop taped under a banner, round onto a dirt complex making use of a bank and back onto the straight.
Lap times in about 15 or 16 seconds made it a very similar lap length to our touring car track, so it made for decent racing, and there was always something to do, always something to think about.
Excellent fun!
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