Silverstone Buggy Club (New and Improved)
 

This weekend 22nd June will see the first meeting on the NEW Silverstone off Road track.
I have to say for those who will be attending they are in for a suprise!!!!

The hard core members (they know who they are) have spent not hours or days, but weeks getting the track to a raceable state. Big thanks from me that there is gonna be a top quality venue close to home.

There will be parts that aren't perfect and they are aware of these, but take a thought and look at what the track will be like when properly finished.

Hope everyone enjoys it and look forward to seeing everyone there.

Pics of the on going changes to the track!!!!
 

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The track will grow over the next year, there is still plenty of work to do so people are still wanted but the track is ready for it's first regional this sunday.

There are to clay areas, two large table tops, a banked corner, lots of elevation changes... a wall ride, tripple and a bunny hop

oooooohhh liking that track guys well looking forward to comin down for a bash might even pinch spenner s or kev aero to have a play they i think :woot:hahahahaha

Excellent work guys...looks great

Tonights work down at the track!!
Spenner took his Aero round for some test laps to help identify any lumps & bumps we had missed! Found that a lap will probably be 23-25 seconds!
A very small amount of finishing work to be done before Sunday now, but it will be ready!!

wow that the dogs lads itching to come down now have to see if the missis get twisted into workin if so custom blitz will be on tour :thumbsup:

Nice to see you're still keeping an eye on us Graham!
Pack the wife off to work and get yourself down here asap!!!
Thanks for all the support to mate!:thumbsup:

Can someone give me the post code for the track :)

no problem mate custom blitz is always happy to support any new venue in its region and any other on the mid south too mate :thumbsup:

We are at the Recreation Ground in Silverstone vilage, known to locals as the SRA, in Church Street as you exit the village north towards Abthorpe. Postcode is NN12 8XA. See you Sunday.

Graham/Spenner
Are you using the dirt infield at all? The astro section doesn't look long enough for a 24s lap? Certainly looks cool though, looking forward to it.
It is the usual yellows in the dry?

You need my handy "Mid-South Map" zoom in to see exact position of the track etc, click the "Silverstone" pin for info..........:)

This thread : http://www.oople.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10465

Jim,

The track is lot bigger than it looks on the pics, from corner to corner the straight is prob as long if not longer than Swindon!!!!

I think you will see laps of around 22-23 secs on the current layout....

With all the features in the track it will slow you down

cheers John, i did wonder. i know Swindon was a similar layout and made up the time on sheer length due to the rallyX size.

would be cool if the kept the infield as dirt and had a couple of sections there for a bit of multisurface.

There are dirt sections in the layout which may be kept....
The middle bit is really loose dirt as it is on top of all the drainage so not really possible to do much apart from cover it.

There will be lots of changes and plenty of things to look forwar to in the future.

wow that looks amazing lot of hard work has gone in there :thumbsup:. im sure with that infield bit there is lots of space to do much more with the layout. top job!!!

For anyone who looks at the current pics....

The current track has been made basically for this weeks Mid South Regional. We ran out of Astro to caver the whole area which is the idea.
Some more astro is on the way, and the track will be fully surfaced.

After the clay section was finished last night there was a discussion of this area maybe staying... depending how it goes this weekend.

The whole area will not be complete till next year min.

The people behind the venture have spent time and money on the project and as this is 'a rush job' sort of, all i can say is wait for the finished article.

The facilities are top notch and the club realised the track wasn't good enough, the men behind it have done a top job and the people in mid south will be blessed with another high class track!!!

Kind words John!! And yes it's been bloody hard work for the few involved and not something I'd want to do again! Although I do hope that the track that is there for this weekends regional is not judged too harshly!!
It's taken nearly two months to get it to this stage. There is another 7500sq ft of astro turf coming from Peterborough in July, hopefully in time for the in-field to be done for the 2WD regional on July 20th.
As John has already mentioned, the in-field has too many drains running under it and is just too cut up to even consider running on!
I ran the BJ4 around the track today and the lap time was 25-24sec! It will probably come down as the sand/track beds in!
The track is big!! The main straight is 43ft long!! The pictures really don't do the place any justice!!
And yes, if it's hot then Yellow's seem to be best!!
See you all Sunday!!

43ft? are you sure? that's like 13m or so? looks much bigger than that, and doesn't the BRCA specify minimum of 20m?

can't wait to try it.

NOT FEET, METRES!!! Sorry Jim your right! We'll get the right length tomorrow when you're there, that way we'll both know for sure!!!