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Probably easy enough to factor in known / fixed expenses for a track. Estimating your income from it seems tougher and would depend a lot on whether you are doing practice only vs how big a draw you could get for one or multiple race series.
And then there's always the 'annual membership' thing.
Thanks all, for chiming in!
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The track owners work their asses off and have to watch every penny.
Everybody thinks a track is a money machine because they only see race day......there are about 300 other days a year to worry about too.
Here in New England there are 4 months out of the year that everything sits and still needs to be paid for as well....since the OP is from New Hampshire also that is a big thing to think about.
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There are actually pretty good deals on heavy equipment out there.
Number one thing to check on track equipment is the undercarriage.
You can find solid machines like pre-hydruastatic John Deere, Case, and Cat machines for $10k-$12k.
If you aren't going to be moving it from one location to another you can buy a bigger machine cheaper than a 12,000 lb machine.
I like case equipment because they have independant Hi/Lo for each side that you can use to steer and not put wear on steering clutches. They are easier to work on than some other machines and there is a ton of salvge stuff out there.
Dresser international made good machines too but they were always tough for me to run because I am 6'2" and you sit down in them.
Saw a completely restored TD7 with a brand new undercarriage sell for $8k at an absolute auction.
There are deals out there. I would strongly recommend that you have somebody that knows equipment look at anything you are thinking about buying.
Stay away from 350 John Deeres like they are a 250F owned by a Beginner rider.
There are only 4 bolts holding them together at one place in the middle and if you start building whoops and/or do not know how to run one smoothly the will break in half.
Just pile up a few mounds of dirt, open the gates, and watch the cash roll in.
ah and the what to run a race track discussion. well all i can say is it's fun, I love it.
It's not for everyone, and well if ya love it, then it's easy. so go for it!
the top 3 costs are probably land, equipment, and insurance. Everything else is just hard work.
Probably need about 10 employee's to run smoothly.
Doesn't seem too profitable but if you own the land and can get a decent amount of riders it can be.
there was talk years ago about putting a track in orange county. ahh we can only dream....
http://www.ebay.com/itm/80a-w-BARN-Utilities-FARM-HUNTING-LAMONI-IOWA-/…
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Are drag strips profitable??
If they are, perhaps having a drag strip and a motocross track on the property would be the ticket...
Same goes for the races, not done by a promoter who needs to make money on it and get a salary, but by the club itself and just volunteers.
The club does not pay salaries, so all the track work is done by volunteers and club members.
Flaggers are either volunteers and at some clubs if you want to race you have to also flag or provide a 'volunteer'.
Heavy equipment is either donated equipment or they use it for free/costprice from companies nearby.
Land is either government owned that can be used for a small fee (since it is a non-profit organization using it for sports), or it is cheap Agricultural land that they bought for cheap and get an excempt to use for mx (again only because they are non-for profit).
All these benefits wouldn't be available if it was a commercial business: Nobody would volunteer (why would i work for free if you make a profit), equipment would not be donated and land would cost significant money.
I'm actually surprised most tracks in the us appear to be commercial/privately owned tracks due to those disadvantages.
Same goes for the races: no need to have 20 classes and long days because the promoter needs to cater to all customers. Just 50cc, 65cc, 85cc, mx2 and mx1. If there are more then 20 riders in a class split it up based on speed. If there are less then 10 combine them with another small class. So no bs like 3 different mx2 classes (a, b and c) with a combined 17 riders.
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