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7 Apr 2003, 19:29 (Ref:562014) | #1 | ||
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Do circuits let you go walkies when no racing?
if you go to a circuit when there is no racing on (say a weekday), could you ask if you could walk around the circuit?
you see it sometimes for TV coverage features liek in F1 where the go to a corner and say "look at the entry blah blah blah..." that would be cool if you could |
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7 Apr 2003, 20:07 (Ref:562077) | #2 | ||
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Yes become a marshal and you can walk wherever you like ---or run if during a race!!!
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7 Apr 2003, 23:09 (Ref:562258) | #3 | ||
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u could hold a cam corder when you walk round and then run the video fast and pretend you were driving round!
some circuits you can wander round before the race starts, you will see a lot of bike racers doing it in the morning just to get familar with the layout. |
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8 Apr 2003, 02:00 (Ref:562338) | #4 | ||
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I know I'm making a it a habbit to a hot lap in the morning at some local meetings on a bicycle to help wake up
Ask nicely, and they might give you a tractor so you can cut the grass while you go around |
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8 Apr 2003, 12:47 (Ref:562746) | #5 | ||
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Hehe! I've not seen them letting people walk round the track at the places i've marshalled at, but if u offer to do a job then they might let u!!
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8 Apr 2003, 14:04 (Ref:562823) | #6 | ||
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so i could go to brands and say "i'll mow the grass and rake the gravel maybe paint the kerbs if you let me walk around the circuit and look at the corners"
or become a marshall and just walk around when i want |
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8 Apr 2003, 14:50 (Ref:562865) | #7 | ||
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At Mosport, race weekends, people walk the track after all the day's activities (and once the track workers and marshals have left or been driven out). It's an integral part of the weekend to walk it both Friday and Saturday night, canned beverage in hand (no glass, please)...
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8 Apr 2003, 15:35 (Ref:562889) | #8 | ||
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I dunno McKay, you could try!
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8 Apr 2003, 16:15 (Ref:562926) | #9 | ||
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I think silverstone might actually, I have seen many a runner going round the tracks, I just don't think they do on race days.
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8 Apr 2003, 18:33 (Ref:563055) | #11 | ||
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McKay-If your interested in marshalling come along to the marshals forum where there are plenty of people who will encourage you and offer advice on how to start. What is your local circuit?
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8 Apr 2003, 19:07 (Ref:563077) | #12 | ||
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Every circuit I've arrived at the day before a race I've had no problem walking them (with beer in hand) the night before. I certainly found it very helpful as last year was my first race season so all the circuits were brand new to me. The circuits in question being:
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8 Apr 2003, 20:32 (Ref:563206) | #13 | ||
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my local track is brands. im only 13 so i cant do marshalling (or can i? hehe) i want to walk round silverstone and see the bridge to woodcote area and see if they are any remains of the old stuff before it was all neatened up in 1997
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8 Apr 2003, 21:30 (Ref:563304) | #14 | |
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you can walk la sarthe...buts it a good 5 miles from the start of mulsanne to porsche curves!
better to drive it...its a buzz |
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8 Apr 2003, 21:35 (Ref:563317) | #15 | ||
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My local track, Mondello, allows people to walk circuit if you wish.
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8 Apr 2003, 23:06 (Ref:563394) | #16 | ||
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If u go there on a quiet day then u should be allowed to!! Have fun!!
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11 Apr 2003, 08:32 (Ref:565958) | #17 | |
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Mt Panorama, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia- the ultimate in non race-day cruising/walking/dreaming.
All 6.2km @ 60km/h of it! |
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11 Apr 2003, 09:14 (Ref:565998) | #18 | |
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i've walked knockhill, and picked out all the racing lines and had an on foot race. that was after testing at about 7pm though.
octagon tend to get a bit arsey if you go on the track during the evening of a race weekend. although having said that i believe there has been some interesting events take place around the snetterton circuit..? |
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11 Apr 2003, 12:10 (Ref:566207) | #20 | |
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I have been positivly encouraged by the Clark of the Course to walk the track & at most Sprint & Hillclimb venues they MANDATE that drivers should walk the course before practice
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Walked Cadwell Park once at about 7am,having camped overnight.
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once at snetterton, late at night i was woken up at the sounds of a motorbike at racing speeds down rivett straight, someone had taken a bike over the fence and was doing some night racing, i dont know if he won anything though
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11 Apr 2003, 14:36 (Ref:566361) | #23 | ||
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What i find strange is that if u stay at a circuit you can still hear racing cars in the dead of night and if theres hardly anybody around...it does confuse me some what!
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12 Apr 2003, 21:46 (Ref:567614) | #25 | ||
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Get yourself trained up.... get a set of orange ovies and you can walk, run, jump around Brands all ya like !
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