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Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities
Posted by 'Inter61' on 19 May 2010 @ 12:02

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Inter61Joined: October 2004
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I've been karting now for 10 years and have raced at all but 5 of the tracks in mainland UK.

Whenever I go to a new circuit I always look for the following things:

1, A track which has been designed properly and encourages overtaking (i.e. wide, long straights and flowing, nothing too technical or narrow as all it doesn't make for good racing on modern day tyre/chassis combinations)

2, A paddock that is both big enough to cope with a typical 120+ entry list and has been organised so there's room to push karts around without causing any problems.

3, A dummy grid that is at least level surface or down hill. More of a issue for direct-drive and gearbox karts than TAG though I admit.

4, A clean clubhouse/canteen, toilets, race control, scutineering bay etc.

IMO, the best track in the UK is Teesside Autodrome as it fits in with my first point but the thing that lets the whole package down is the paddock and, as noted at a recent race meeting, the "interesting" scales in scrutineering.

If you were to take Teesside (or Wigan for that matter) and give it PFI's facilities then we would probebly have a venue that's more on par with the top european karting tracks than we do at the moment.

Message Thread:

Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'Pjs53' (18 May 2010 @ 18:02)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'paul40' (18 May 2010 @ 18:14)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'Doink' (18 May 2010 @ 19:16)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'chriskasch' (18 May 2010 @ 19:19)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'davidmc' (18 May 2010 @ 20:53)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'chriskasch' (18 May 2010 @ 23:29)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'John' (18 May 2010 @ 23:50)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'raceinstructor' (19 May 2010 @ 8:22)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'lbsf1' (19 May 2010 @ 8:51)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'Inter61' << You are here!

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'KenE' (19 May 2010 @ 22:42)

Re: Paddock / Pit Facilities by 'Minisueg' (20 May 2010 @ 16:34)

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