building a track in MD

Post by **USsil80** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

What would you all think if say i and a couple of my friends acctully build a track..not just a pissy little think but a nice long track.. something long enough to get good track time.. everyones opions. if you would come ..book track time and make it worth our time to spend the amount of money to build if...

Post by **I30T** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

Where in MD?

Website · Post by **TurboKA37** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

are we talking a speedway here or a parking lot with cones?

Post by **Rex** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

South county? Western MD? Eastern shore?

The trick would be finding somewhere that everyone could get to, but isn't so close that real estate is outrageous. Unless, you already have the land??

Post by **nightstepper** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

Charles County Southern MD

Website · Post by **TurboKA37** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

southern MD would a bit of a travel for me

Post by **Onizuka** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

If your talking about a road course, be prepared to shell out over $100,000 to build one. Not to mention maintenance, land tax, buisness lisence, insurance etc...

Website · Post by **TurboKA37** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

yes, insurance. that will probly be pretty high

Post by **USsil80** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

true... i was thinking something joint ventured with some sponers..look at all the road courses around-they are all booked up every single weekend during the season there is defintie bussness prospect..i was thinking eastern shore...something on like 3 acres of land

Post by **Nebraska240sx** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

i just cant see it costing 100,000 to lay a few miles of pavement...

but i was thinking of doing the same thing here in nebraska. buy a bunch of farm land and pave my own racetrack. make it like 3 or 4 miles long. then build a house next to it... that would be great to wake up to every moring.

Post by **USsil80** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

yea.. that is what i am thinking

Post by **Bubba1** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

J-Spec Tuner wrote:If your talking about a road course, be prepared to shell out over $100,000 to build one. Not to mention maintenance, land tax, buisness lisence, insurance etc...

Uh, you better add some zero's to that $100,000 if you're thinking about a real road course. I don't think $100K is enough to establish a little go-cart track.

Post by **Onizuka** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

Yeah I was being conservative, If you situate the track anywhere near a populated aera you going to spend twice that much just buying the land.

http://www.beaverun.com

look at the site, its for a track in the middle of no-where in western PA, im sure that track cost most than $10,000,000 to make.

Post by **lessthanjakejohn** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

Come to texas... lots of land which is a plus, expensive to build on clay, TMS that will take away all the sales... I guess you choud still be succesful : )

Post by **Hijacker** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

problem with texas though is how spread out it is. you have large cities, but they're hours apart from each other. the closest cities are san antonio and austin and they're still like an hour and 45 minutes apart.

where sil80 is talking about is a bit closer to more cities so a larger initial crowd can come without having to travel far to get to it. i'd still be 4 hours away from it, but the prospect would be cool.

my only concern is initial cost. land is expensive, especially in maryland. not to mention paving a few miles of road and having it glass smooth (nobody wants to race on a bumpy track) will cost way too much. Your best bet is to have investors in the deal. Venture capital will help, but i don't think it'll be enough, especially with the economy as low as it is

Post by **Mayhem_J30** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

You'll have to lay some THICK pavement to make it last. Especially through the turns. Have you ever seen how corners in simple autox break up the pavement and destroy it? Imagine high speed turns over and over and over. 3-4 miles is huge. But man would that be fun

. Don't forget all the extra run off room you need, for example at the end of a straight away for when the brakes fade to nothing on those chodes with bling bling brakes.

Post by **Bubba1** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

J-Spec Tuner wrote:Yeah I was being conservative, If you situate the track anywhere near a populated aera you going to spend twice that much just buying the land.

http://www.beaverun.com

look at the site, its for a track in the middle of no-where in western PA, im sure that track cost most than $10,000,000 to make.

I love BeaverRun. I ran my car there this past summer. It's actually not far from Pittsburgh on the west side. It's a small track. I believe they've already spent 10 mill and they're not done spending. Might be cheaper to buy an older track and refurbrish it. There are some tracks out there that need work, like Nelson Ledges. Summit-Point Raceway (which is about an hour from Baltimore) is finishing a 3rd circuit, and the other two are very nice. Gonna be tough to compete with them.

Post by **Cold_Zero** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

USsil80 wrote:What would you all think if say i and a couple of my friends acctully build a track..not just a pissy little think but a nice long track.. something long enough to get good track time.. everyones opions. if you would come ..book track time and make it worth our time to spend the amount of money to build if...

I have two bags of Quickcrete you can have to start.

Post by **Mr1der** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

ugh, I hate that stuff Bud, it's so, so.....lumpy... like an old man's pants....

hell, I'd be happy with just a big *** parking lot.

say 300x300 yards or so?

Post by **Nebraska240sx** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

that would be cool to, so how thinck should you lay the pavement to get ti to be proper for racing. I might consider doing this if i can find some good investors, of course id move somewhere that would be a little more profitable than nebraska. any ideas? just to tell you tx and ca are out of the running immeadatly, to much restriction.

Post by **USsil80** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

well just an ideas here but..though my neighbor just go his drive way that was 3'' think asphult and it is about a dollor a square foot... yea defintily need inversters just trying to get a feel first

Post by **rydwhite** » Tue Dec 09, 2003 9:42 am

Are you talking about a public track that you would take bookings for or are you thinking of something just to rent out to friends and the like?

If it is going to be something public, you are not only going to have to have some heavy back sponsors, but also meet with the city/town and state governments to get zoning permission and much more other things. It would be a long process that would probably take a couple years to complete.

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