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Unamed Dirt Venue: New Video of cars driving **page 5**
First drive around the unfinished track
Latest video of Track Layout 20/04/22012, Click Here Right so following on from my other thread, here is the build thread i will be updating in stages. The track will be a permament dirt track. First of all, the unit itself: Today we started on clearing the van's out of the unit and giving it a good sweep. We then decided on a layout and rostum postion etc etc and started building. When we left this afternoon after working on it we had some of the main straight built up, the back fence built and started marking out and cutting wood for the inner markings. We have designed the track to be 2meters wide all the way around. There will also be multi layout sections so we can change the track every month or so with ease. I plan to have it usable (although small) for 1/10th and 1/16th cars. |
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Interesting. And whereabouts roughly will this venue be?
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The venue is 5mins from Heathrow Airport
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another decent track(hopefully) not to far away!!!!
when you planning on running?
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Just read the other thread and whilst I applaud your idea, 150m sq is very small buddy for a perm place. Our indoor is the smallest you can get away with ad it's 12m x 22m racing area, which is 270 ish.
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To be fair Neil the track area I showed you on wednesday that we use is only 10m x 18m (180 sq m) we somtimes get 12m x 18m in but thats it. PDA in Bicester was not that much bigger than this to be honest, so it is more than do-able, albeit a bit on the small side (especially if only 2m wide)
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I really wish you all well with this new venture,here is a vid i took of the PDA in all its glory . It gives you a good view of the scale of it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgRwcoTI-2c Any new venue on DIRT is a plus whatever the size i,m sure Teddy Truman and PTRU on here can give you some sound advice on building it. GOOD LUCK
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So are the USA indoor dirt venues smaller
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Neil, you would be surprised just how small some of the US indoor dirt tracks really are, not all mind you but more than you would think, they are not these huge dirt filled warehouses that people think...
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We shall be down there from 8am till 1pm tomorrow morning to make some more progress before i watch the spurs win and the gonners lose |
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As for the comment in bold, well there goes all my respect for you in foul swoop!!! LOL (Seriuosly though, if you need any help from this end, we are only in Watford, then give us a shout - even if you do support the other half of North London ;-) sadly)
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Down at the unit nice an early today to finish off the top section of the track
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Best of luck with this, look forward to coming to have a play!
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Watching with interest as I can finally use the losi mini 8's kit tyres on this! |
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Pictures from todays work: As i got there nice and early First intersection area in for different layouts and finally as we left all the intersections and the top part of the track completed The top section of the track is now complete and i cant start on the other part until the rest of the unit is clear. Any comments, tips and tricks? |
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i will admit i have never built a track but i think its odd you have marked out the track in the way you have for dirt?
to me i would have got the dirt in sculptures it into features and then made the track as in the link above and here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgRwcoTI-2c
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When you say "mud" I hope you mean "clay" ....
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A few years ago I found a unit in stevenage to open a unit i had a few issues that stopped me moving it forward.
The business rate on the unit was light industrial not leisure rate the local council had issues with me using the venue for this as they did not want children on the business park they also got the valuation office involved to work out the new business rate. They suggested that I took a unit on the leisure park but the rent and rates were too expensive. I would advise that if the main use of the venue is model car racing you check this out first there are ways round this, if one part of the venue is used or highed out for one off events you can get away with it. I believe this is why dirt arena closed! There is a myth going round that model car tracks don’t pay rates as they are no profit making this is not true I found out the hard way and are club got a back dated bill of over £6K Please get everything in place first speak to the landlord about what you’re doing and council get it in writing as well. This is different than running a club at a hall/sports ground where you hire room/land off them they will be paying the rate on the land/building. Good luck Last edited by jimbot; 23-01-2012 at 08:38 AM. Reason: spelling |
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