Suitable Venues for Sprints

[jetskidia]

Help Please Finding Suitable Venues
I am on the lookout for suitable venues to run Sprints this year, do you have any ideas/suggestions of a place near you?
Please forward as many places and their details to me asap
Thanks


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Chris

[ettore]

Don`t they need to be RACMSA licenced? if so, a quick call to the MSA or a look in the Blue Book perhaps?

[jetskidia]

Hoping to find Non Msa Licenced venues.
Thanks

[fugatso]

jetskidia said:

Hoping to find Non Msa Licenced venues. Thanks

Sorry don't know about licensing issues, but Curborough near tamworth is a sprint track, I have driven it on a porsche club night and also been a spectator at a full sprint meet. Not to be underestimated!

[fugatso]

surprise!!! www.curborough.com

[jetskidia]

Thanks for the Curbourgh idea, but that will be an MSA venue.
btw web site should read www.curborough.co.uk

[GreenV8S]

What do you mean by sprint? I assume you don't mean in the sense of an MSA licensed speed competition.

[jetskidia]

What our car club want to do is hire somewhere and run our own sprint as opposed to entering a licensed MSA event and all that entails

[GarryM]

Couldn't you hire a place like Llandow? AFAIK it's available to groups and is not unreasonably priced. Not sure whether you'd get into insurance difficulties.

[jetskidia]

Can't hire Llandow or similar places due to them being MSA licensed venues.
The problem arises when you try to time an event rather than just run a non timed trackday

[GreenV8S]

jetskidia said:

What our car club want to do is hire somewhere and run our own sprint as opposed to entering a licensed MSA event and all that entails

... like safety equipment, trained marshals, that sort of stuff? You *can* run non-sactioned competitive events without all this stuff on the cheap, you might end up in serious poo though if anything went wrong.

[jetskidia]

We did several Sprint events last year, and ran them to a similar level of a MSA event, ie, marshals, safety equip ect, but we need some different venues

[cptsideways]

Haynes Sprint Track near Yeovil, I'm visiting them tomorrow & will ask for you.

[ettore]

Whereabouts do you want to run them? - I`d have thought airfields/ex-military sites are your best bet. There are plenty of country houses with decent stretches of tarmac but suspect many landowners would prefer MSA sanctioning.

[zumbruk]

jetskidia said:

We did several Sprint events last year, and ran them to a similar level of a MSA event, ie, marshals, safety equip ect, but we need some different venues

... and liability insurance? You *do* have liability insurance, don't you?

'Cos when Wayne spins his rice eater into the crowd and cripples a 22 y/o breadwinner with 2 small children you're going to need some way to pay the £20 million damages bill you're going to be lumbered with.

[jetskidia]

zumbruk said:

jetskidia said: We did several Sprint events last year, and ran them to a similar level of a MSA event, ie, marshals, safety equip ect, but we need some different venues 'Cos when Wayne spins his rice eater into the crowd and cripples a 22 y/o breadwinner with 2 small children you're going to need some way to pay the £20 million damages bill you're going to be lumbered with.

It will not be an open event, hence Wayne in his "rice eater" will not be there and neither will the crowd !!

[cptsideways]

cptsideways said:

Haynes Sprint Track near Yeovil, I'm visiting them tomorrow & will ask for you.

Yep its available for what you need PM for contact details

[jetskidia]

cptsideways said:

cptsideways said: Haynes Sprint Track near Yeovil, I'm visiting them tomorrow & will ask for you. Yep its available for what you need PM for contact details

Got their details. Need more venues
Thanks

[zumbruk]

jetskidia said:

zumbruk said: jetskidia said: We did several Sprint events last year, and ran them to a similar level of a MSA event, ie, marshals, safety equip ect, but we need some different venues 'Cos when Wayne spins his rice eater into the crowd and cripples a 22 y/o breadwinner with 2 small children you're going to need some way to pay the £20 million damages bill you're going to be lumbered with. It will not be an open event, hence Wayne in his "rice eater" will not be there and neither will the crowd !!

Doesn't make any difference. Even if it's Stirling Moss and a Maserati "birdcage" and he hits your best mate, you're still going to be on the receiving end of a lawsuit the like of which is going to make the rest of your life seriously miserable. Once you get out of prison for organising an unlicensed race in a "public place", that is.

I'm not getting at you, just suggesting that you think carefully about the implications of what you're suggesting. In essence, that's what the MSA is all about - protecting you from legal liability.

[jetskidia]

zumbruk said:

jetskidia said: zumbruk said: jetskidia said: We did several Sprint events last year, and ran them to a similar level of a MSA event, ie, marshals, safety equip ect, but we need some different venues 'Cos when Wayne spins his rice eater into the crowd and cripples a 22 y/o breadwinner with 2 small children you're going to need some way to pay the £20 million damages bill you're going to be lumbered with. It will not be an open event, hence Wayne in his "rice eater" will not be there and neither will the crowd !! Once you get out of prison for organising an unlicensed race in a "public place", I'm not getting at you, just suggesting that you think carefully about the implications of what you're suggesting. In essence, that's what the MSA is all about - protecting you from legal liability.

Thanks for your concerns , but I'm not organising a "race" and it definately will not be in a public place