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Originally Posted by mike
What sort of size track/hall would be required to suit indoor 1/18th to 1/10th? would 1/10th be too big? could you use the wooden floor and carpet? I have a load of 3x2 and blue lay flat hose too if that could be used. I think that scrounging stuff for track marking is the easy bit but I need ideas and help on other bits - for the first few weeks, would it be ok to just run to the clock and count your own laps/have someone counting them?
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Stockport runs on an area 15m x 8m which is as small as you can go these days. It's just about big enough for todays buggies but buggy drivers these days seem to want to bolt in more power than needed and try and manhandle the buggies round, buggies are faster round Stockport with a 10.5 or 13.5 but you are never going to get drivers to swap motors just to run indoors. Bigger areas are better, but of course cost of rent goes up as well.
Nothing wrong with the wooden floors, many buggy clubs manage to run happily on wood floors as can be seen
here at Ludlow. 30 years ago at Stockport we were running on the polished wood floor with Hornets and Frogs with no problem, so surely buggy racers these days should be capable of getting round the floor.
For lap counting it is a lot easier with a computer to do the timing and recording the laps. Honestly, you just need the cheapest working PC or laptop you can find and the software is available for free, and add a cheap printer if you want to print out the results. We used to use a laptop that was donated to us by a club member as his company was throwing it out, ask around as lots of people have an old PC they no longer use.