Speed bumps at tracks

[jassihayre]

Really don't get this. I have to drive my car to tracks as I don't have any space for a trailer. My car's not exactly scraping the road / super low. Last year I damaged the exhaust getting in to Mallory park and damaged a brake line earlier this year leaving Bedford Autodrome.

Can't remember if it was Blyton or some airfield which had the opposite issue of pot holes like sinkholes.

Are there any other tracks with these issues?

[88racing]

The main entrance to Oulton Park has some nasty narrow speed bumps. If the paddock entry to the road is closed at Donington - unless its now been tarmaced - you have to go over some unmade-up roads and then over narrow speed bumps near the gate. Think there's a few at Thruxton.

[boxsey]

As you enter Spa Francochamps circuit via the tunnel and turn right there is a big hump to negotiate to get to the lower paddock. Just about every car grounds on it. I've always thought this to be absolutely stupid for an F1 circuit!

[james_gt3rs]

That entry to Bedford is a nightmare, more like a course to bed in new brakes than anything else.

[doogalman]

boxsey said:

As you enter Spa Francochamps circuit via the tunnel and turn right there is a big hump to negotiate to get to the lower paddock. Just about every car grounds on it. I've always thought this to be absolutely stupid for an F1 circuit!

You can turn left instead. Or use Stavelo entrance. But Yes I get your point especially for people that have never been there before. When we work there we often stand up at the F1 paddock watching people go round and round the lower paddock trying to find our where they need to be.

[loggyboy]

jassihayre said:

Can't remember if it was Blyton or some airfield which had the opposite issue of pot holes like sinkholes.

Blyton has a #10m wide entry road, with a 2m wide strip of 'guide lines' to help you slalom the major holes and broken tarmac. With some of that 2m stretch being new tarmac. Its almost comical.

[E-bmw]

loggyboy said:

jassihayre said:

Can't remember if it was Blyton or some airfield which had the opposite issue of pot holes like sinkholes.

Blyton has a #10m wide entry road, with a 2m wide strip of 'guide lines' to help you slalom the major holes and broken tarmac. With some of that 2m stretch being new tarmac. Its almost comical.

I do love driving Blyton but, on the one occasion I forgot to put my car back to "road suspension settings" I realised well before I got to the gate!

[Mrs Muttleysnoop]

Snetterton have removed theirs, so now some people rip-arse down the tarmac to and from the pits even though there is a speed limit.

[Kev_Mk3]

Blyton roads going to circuit make it interesting with your tools etc in the car. The sound of tyres on the arches isnt one I like.

[HaylingJag]

james_gt3rs said:

That entry to Bedford is a nightmare, more like a course to bed in new brakes than anything else.

agreed with this until yesterday when, upon my arrival, i saw new tarmac up the drive and past the security building. Speed humps still there but seem to be shallowed out and made deeper making them easier to negotiate

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[towelie]

james_gt3rs said:

That entry to Bedford is a nightmare, more like a course to bed in new brakes than anything else.

The two on the entrance are an absolute nightmare agreed!

The rest you can just drive around on the grass. Obviously I’ve never done this though 😬