"abandoned" astro track in Watford

[tymill]

Wow- just saw this video...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvgpDurHVY8

Does anyone know where this track is? Is much known about its history?

Looks pretty cool!

[budgio]

I raced there last year.it's at lees wood scout camp.not a bad little track but was in need of some work doing on it.it's still being used as far as I know.

[Welshy40]

Guys anyone got the address of this track and contact details of the club runner?

[Darren Boyle]

The track is not "abandoned", they still run there every other week. How you see it is just "how it is" week in wek out

The club has been running now since the early 1990's and I was once on the commitee for around 7 years, the club has fought hard over the years to remain "small" and family orientated, they have no wish for regionals or large meetings, quite the opposite, they strive for Sunday morning meetings only and like to be finished by 1pm if they can.

As much as I highly admire all of this, for the reasons that a large group of us wanted bigger and greater things for the club (like all-day meetings, regionals etc) but the stalwarts on the commitee did not want the club to go this way, so we had no choice but to break away.

This is why we founded the DMS Model Car Club in the mid to late 90's and strived for the bigger meetings and higher numnber of racers such as the Indoor Finals that we ran a few years back with over 100 racing each day.

Now before anyone says, I am NOT knocking the HRCCC (as it is called) since the racing and atmosphere there is great for newcomers and less competative people but racing for just a couple hours every other week against just a handful of fellow racers is not what "we" (the group of us) wanted to do, but for those who do they love it to bits.

There is a link to the official club website on our shop website links page for those who are interested.

[Chequered Flag Racing]

Originally Posted by Welshy40

Guys anyone got the address of this track and contact details of the club runner?

this may be it

Campsite Address
Lees Wood
Fir Tree Hill
Chandlers Cross
Rickmansworth
Hertfordshire
WD3 4LY
Tel: 01923 233281
Fax: 01923 248433
Email:
Sites Own Web Address: http://www.leeswood.org

from this link
http://www.scoutbase.org.uk/cgi-bin/...Name=Lees+Wood

[Darren Boyle]

That is the one Glenn, their address and a multimap link is on their website on our links page of the DMS website

[Welshy40]

Well this track is what got me in contact with dms years back, and did an indoor event in the watford leisure centre. As i used to live in watford it kind of has memories and any old excuse is good to go back. Cheers