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Old 08-03-2012
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Originally Posted by tellor View Post
Can I ask WHY has an outdoor dirt track been built in the UK? if it was indoor great, under a massive cover yeah great but outdoors??

we've tried these years ago and were too time consuming to maintain, thats why we went to astro turf. we dont have the consistency of the weather to simply keep the track in good condition.

I appreciate i raced on dirt tracks then and not clay as they are now but still seems like hard work to maintain

Will it make the 6 guys who go to a Euros/worlds better....slightly
Is there a possibility we could run a Euros whenever/worlds in 2019...maybe if we could afford it

Great work guys and I for one will love to try it but why?

We went to astro so we could race week in, week out in a much greater range of weather for a longer season. Clearly a clay track will never be able to offer this - we have an all-weather astroturf track 40 feet away from our new dirt venue for that. What it does offer is an experience currently not freely available in the UK and clay really is a great, fun, challenging surface to race on which has the advantage over astro of the bit of 'slip' so we can include more 'moulded' jumps.
Its not going to be everyones cup of tea and we will for sure make lots of mistakes in our construction and management, but given time we will know how to manage the surface correctly and hopefully be able to offer a top class facility. I tried for a long period, in vain to gain planning permission to put a roof over the venue. We have a few other projects on the go but I will come back to this perhaps in around 18months and try again.
The next Euros that doesn't have a confirmed venue is in 2014, we still might not have a good enough venue by then but all we can do is our best.

We simply wanted to offer you guys the opportunity of running on this awesome surface, bear with us, we wont get it right first time and we have a lot to learn. There is clearly demand for a clay track in the UK judging by the feedback we've had, commitment from our tyre partners Pro-Line, the staggering amount of entries to the oOple race already and the number of people who have contacted me about our first 'open day' in June (details TBC) - this shakedown event will hopefully give us the information to get the surface in order for the oOple Invernational 6 weeks after. The point is the bare bones are there - the hard bit was kickstarting, funding, planning and tieing everything together to get the whole project off the ground - we have to start somewhere! Hopefully it will grow and improve and perhaps oneday we can house the facility indoors.

Bear with the inevitable mistakes we will make, if we don't get it right first time then don't write the venue off - we will learn and improve for the following event and so on..
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