New Track in East Anglia
 

I would like to introduce Boughton Raceway, a new 1/10th track in Norfolk. After recently hosting Round 2 of the East of England regional series, the feed back from drivers has been unbeliveable, with many claiming it is the best all weather astroturf track they have raced on. Due to the outstanding feed back we have received, it has been deceided that we will run a 4 round summer series, on the following dates: Round 1-24th June, Round 2-22nd July, Round 3-19th August, Round 4-23rd September.
The venue is approx 8 miles south of Kings Lynn, near a town called Downham Market.
We have a facebook page with more pictures and details, just search for Boughton Raceway.
For more details and info, please feel free to contact me.
Heres a few pictures of the track, Unfurtunately they were taken in the poor weather conditions we have recently had, but check out our facebook page for some great action pics.
Thanks,
Barry.

A few more pics

Looks smashing!

Credit to your region.

Stitched it together for you Barry.

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That looks pretty damn good :)

wow love to have a track like that in the southwest

Thanks Alex, Im useless at editing pictures and stiching them togeter!

great track like that & you're only gonna use it for 4 meets ?

Been here and it does drive as good as it looks, and in the wet there was no standing water anywhere on the track all day and it rained ALL day. In the dry it is REALLY good with a good mix of sections, it's big at around 30 secs per lap but you are not going slowly round it though, if you know what i mean.

At the moment we have two rounds of the east of England regional series booked, the four round summer series, and we are currently planning a big two day meeting, like a Best of British GP, or something similar. Watch this space for more details.

There has been a small group of us putting alot of hours in to the track over the months, and we have found out just how unfit we are!!! The more people that use the track and give us feedback either positive or otherwise the more we can continue to develop the track and facilities, and the more meetings we can hold. i have raced at many tracks over the years and i can honestly say the track is great to race on and like has already been said even with the rain the track was mostly dry, so less cleaning cars equals more time to socialise, no bad thing.

Facebook page is

www.facebook.com/boughton.raceway

Boughton Raceway
 

HI yes the track was awesome to drive,all of us from MERCC will be back for more at next regional round to race. Plus the Sausage rolls are Mega.

Looks like a great track and not too far from Peterborough!

good stuff, summer series, and GP sound great, I'm in...ermm unless I'm racing at the No1 club in east anglia.....NBC, but I could be bias:lol:
I also heard that the carpet filling in the infield came from a very posh place indeed

Top class track. Immaculately presented and drives really well. Race control tower is supurb as well. I will have to make sure that i get to the hot dog tent quicker at the next regional as i missed out first time round, they were that good...appartently:D

Really is a great track, by far the best in the east of England (esp Norfolk) by a loooong way, easily a match for Stotfold:thumbsup:

very nice track. Needs a couple more jumps for my liking, but have to agree, looks like one of the best presented tracks ive seen. And very good build quality on the corner table top

Guess it dont help that i had 3 bangers lol.
We are working on a few more features but dont want to go mad as track has a gd flow which rewards gd racing.

Now I'd disagree with that, too many jumps and it turns into a stunt fest, racing then takes a back seat all you do is follow someone round till one of you makes a mistake.

The Boughton layout lends it's self to some really good racing, at least that's what we had at the EoE regional a few weeks back:thumbsup:

[B]Bangers[B] - they will be making a wecolme return at the next regional, and justin is barred until at least after lunch time !!!

[B]The infield[B] is indeed royal carpet from the royal suite at wembley, don't tell HRH though as we said we were only borrowing it!!!

[B]track features[B] there is already a new feature on one bend, look at the pictures at the start of this thread and you may be able to spot it, trust me it will catch you out if your not careful as we found out testing it!!! There is also a plan to put another interesting feature in before the next regional

True. We all like different stuff though. personally i would have a little kicker in the middle of the track before the hairpin, and a small table top or kicker on the far left of the panaramic pic.

Not suggesting jumps everywhere. just something small to break up a largely flat area.

All the same, i can see myself driving up for a day here :)

Track drives lovely. :thumbsup:just the right mix of jumps and fast stuff. flows really well, even the corner table top works where others have failed. Can't wait to try it in the dry instead of upwards rain :(:(

That is what we don't want to do, go down the route of jumps everyewhere and make it too much like an American moto x track. The new feature we have put in is just something that could slow the cars down and make it interesting. We tried it out several times and it works, hit it too fast and it will throw you off line, get it right and you could gain a place or two if your in a battle.The last bend before the straight is ear marked for a winter project to see what we can come up with, but for now one more feature on one of the hairpins and we will leave it at that. We like the fast flowing nature of the track, with a mix of different features, jumps, table top, woops (I told you to look for them :-)).

I will try and stay away from the bbq but they where so gd:thumbsup:

Top bunch of peeps running this place, the track is superb and the hotdogs are amazing.

Nice to see the little ripples added and nice to know that it's designed to throw you off line and not on the roof - that's design!!! :thumbsup:

A little feature from a "shakedown meet" ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=_ugq-hen3rw

looks really good

trekkker

Thanks ben you are excatly right we layed the ripples and there main purpose is to slow u down we tried many configs before we settled on what we layed. The main purpose is to throw u off line but if u dont respect them u will be on ur roof.

Great track and facilities, nice to have an astro layout in the East of England to compliment the grass and dirt tracks already across the region.

Looking forward to a dry run at either the regional or one of the summer meetings.

Top work fella's :thumbsup:

Ok, I would just like to say thanks for all the comments guys, Im really looking forward to running the next meeting.
Ive had a couple of PM's asking about the summer series. We will be running to BRCA rules, running 2WD, 4WD and Short Course classes.
At the moment Im considering two different race formats. Either 1 round of timed practice followed by 3 rounds of round by round qualifying, with the best two rounds to count, finishing with 3 leg finals.
OR..
1 round of timed practice followed by 5 rounds of round by round qualifying with the best 4 to count, finishing with single leg finals.
Ultimately, I will run which ever format drivers prefer. So its over to you guys, let me know what you think.
Regards,
Barry.

Personally I prefer the 3 leg finals. With more qualifying rounds and only single finals if something breaks in the first bend of the final it's all over, although I guess that's racing. Whereas at least with the 3 leg finals it rewards consistency over 3 races when it counts, in the finals!! Also I tend to feel the finals are more of a race amongst drivers, whereas qualifying is more of a race against the clock. That's my opinion anyway.

I'm with Colin, more racing is always better then more qualiy:)

Oh, and a vintage heat may emerge......:thumbsup:

This track looks awesome, i hope the next time im visiting my family in kings lynn that i get a chance to race there..............:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

Got a few more pictures on our facebook page now. Looking forward to the next meeting already.

some more stitched for you

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The stitching looks great, good job.

Really? that'll have me getting the Hotshot out again:thumbsup:

thought you would post about vintage....I would break the optima out:thumbsup:

Mmm that's got me thinking, I wonder if anyone has ever done a lunchbox brushless conversion??
That's about as vintage as it gets!! 1987..