How many meters?

[mattybucks]

Hi guys,

How man y meters of pipe do you think is needed for a good size outdoor 1/10 off road track? Answers on a postcard

[Mr Eccleston]

300 if you include an outside perimeter. 200 for track, 100 for outside, roughly.

[burgie]

sounds small to me, does that.

[Dudders]

600m was the old SHRCCC site. 25m x 15m all the way round.

[Mr Eccleston]

Our track is 40m x 25m, with outside perimeter of 50m x 25m, not small for a off road track.

I think it will depend on how long you want top make the track, our average laptime from weekend was 20seconds.

[DanW]

Originally Posted by mattybucks

Hi guys,

How man y meters of pipe do you think is needed for a good size outdoor 1/10 off road track? Answers on a postcard

Depends very much on your track size and layout.

Recommended minimum lap for national event is 130m. So if you want to mark both sides of that circuit exclusively, so you have islands between live lanes of track, then much more than double lap distance, so in that case at least 300m+ of pipe for a minimum length track.

However a pipe barrier might not be exclusive to one length of track, there maybe live track either side of a given section of pipe barrier, so then you would get away with less maybe 250m.

If you go for the small bore pipe tied to large bore pipe to make forgiving barriers, thats double again. Good track maybe longer than minimum length and making markers exclusive to each lane.... you could easy eat up 800m of pipe.

My answer (not on a postcard) 250m to 800m depending on how you lay it.

If I was costing it up I'd draw a sketch plan of the track marking to a rough scale and work it out. Something like THIS

[Apricot Slice]

I did some rough designs for a reasonable sized track and worked it out to 250. but this design had islands in the middle to have various options so used a bit less.
I'd say 300 would cover it

[chuckie stella]

Hi Matt,

Just to give you an idea.

The AREA51 track size was only 600 square meters and we used 30 x 10 metre hoses just for that average size indoor track!

Matt O

[Apricot Slice]

Originally Posted by mattybucks

Hi guys,

How man y meters of pipe do you think is needed for a good size outdoor 1/10 off road track? Answers on a postcard

How big is the area for your track?

[mattybucks]

As big as we want it, the track will be 1/10 off road only.

[Apricot Slice]

Originally Posted by mattybucks

As big as we want it, the track will be 1/10 off road only.

Draw something up and I can calculate it for you if you like.

[SlowOne]

I can't answer the question, but the word you need is metres - a measure of length - not meters - devices that displays a measurement. Grump over...

[Crazy L]

Originally Posted by SlowOne

I can't answer the question, but the word you need is metres - a measure of length - not meters - devices that displays a measurement. Grump over...

Beat me to it, Got a vision now of a load of multimeters gaffa taped together.