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The Caistor track in the Lincolnshire Wolds, used to hold club races for years and is set in a beautiful location of the country, with Cadwell Park road races and Skegness Beach races down the street. Also in the area is a big Honda road racing team facility, or there used to be, so the whole area is steeped in motorsports.
Guy Martin has bought the track with the goal of bringing in some big races. Really cool to see this.
Also cool, Tommy Searle and Billy bolt making great content right now as well...
https://youtu.be/6qomPfZVRcU
Guy Martin has bought the track with the goal of bringing in some big races. Really cool to see this.
Also cool, Tommy Searle and Billy bolt making great content right now as well...
https://youtu.be/6qomPfZVRcU
We went to the final practice day there when it shut down about 2 years ago, the guy promised he'd prep the track, but he didn't it was rock hard blue groove. Wrecked a brand new tyre. Its no wonder the guy couldn't make it work.
I just pray that is mere mortals get at least one chance to ride it. It’s frustrating when we see these amazing tracks built for mxgp like Matterly, donnington and the IoW years ago but the people living here never get the chance to ride the places.
Btw. Guy Martin is such a great bloke. Always love to watch his videos too bad i can't understand shit he says... Anyhoo he is the best thing that happend to Grimsby since the roman invasion... for sure.
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The Honda Team HQ is there, because the guy that ran it set it up there, because he lives there, and Cadwell Park is a great circuit that always draws a crowd.
Track looks mint and i wish him all the best with it, we desperately need another proper track in the UK , so many have gone, and the few that are left are over used and no longer the jewels that they were.
Local guys rave about the layout, if not the surface, but its been a practice track for ages, so i have no need to go there, i dont ride unless i race as a rule, and if i do its as local as i can get.
As far as GP's go , it needs to get on the British Championship Calendar first to prove it can cope, MX in that part of the world isnt as strong as it was, i rode up there back in the 80's and it was a bit of backwater even then, but there are lots of riders within an hour, who must be pissed off with Fat Cats , DMP and Uncle Eddies by now.
The tourist board in Skegness are mad for the beach race, i was involved in the first three of those, and after a bit of initial scepticsm , they see the benefit to the local economy, and back, it 100%
Believe me they need people up that way, its the local 'coastal' destination for our area in the Midlands, and there is very little industry in the county, and it isnt a highly populated area.
The nearest comparison i can come up with is 'Wyoming by the Sea'... That is probably the hilliest bit of the county, apart from Cadwell Park
A track closes, lays dormant. Road racing legend and TV personality buys it, renovates and plans to hold races snd other events.
One guy doesn't like the dirt.
One guy can't ride a pro track
One guy can't figure out a 40 mile drive from Britain's longest motorway.
For any big meetings to take place the surrounding land owners will be needed to provide the fields for camping and car parking, from memory the site isn't that big, so providing enough space for the pits as well as the camping and car park areas is going cost the organisers, but more tracks the better.
I hear Fatcats might be sold for other uses.
That's what happened at Whitby, the track improved to the point where the ordinary club riders were crashing their brains out and then not returning. Which meant the club then struggled to keep going due to dwindling entries.
When you go practice at Glen Helen or Lommel it's not identical to the track the pros ride when the championship is town.
I'm still quite partial to hitting big jumps when the conditions are favourable but all I said was the jumps at pro tracks such as Matterley would take some clearing even for a reasonably experienced rider, that makes the fastest guys so exciting to watch, they do things that mere mortals struggle to. All I was eluding to was if it's gonna be a practice track it has to cater for the majority and not the elite.
Back in the 90's when Foxhills hosted the Brit GP, we decided to go and ride the track when the opportunity came at a club meeting, we were reasonable riders back then. We'd never experienced jumps with take take offs as steep as nearly all the jumps on that track. It made the track hideous to ride for the ordinary riders.
Surely you know that just because your wheels leave the ground doesn't mean you've jumped a particular jump as it's intended to be jumped.
Pit Row
The promoters made money and no one died.
I’m excited about the whole thing, it just seemed as if it was going to be another proper natural terrain track left to get swallowed up by Mother Nature. Glad someone with enthusiasm has took it over. They don’t come much more enthusiastic than guy! Looking forward to seeing how it unfolds.
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